After leaving Top Sellers, I spent an uneventful ten months compiling puzzle magazines and reprint comics for an obscure publisher in the Croydon area, quietly climbing the walls. It was my old boss Dez Skinn who came to the rescue. He called me up and asked me to join him at the newly revamped Marvel UK operation, where I would once again work as his assistant, riding shotgun on the company's monthly magazines. These included Starburst, a science fiction movie magazine which started life as an independent published by Dez himself, Conan the Barbarian and Rampage magazine which featured a more mature version of The Hulk.
Dez's assistant on Marvel's weekly comics was Richard Burton, who had enjoyed a long and successful run as editor/publisher of Comic Media News, a sort of forerunner to Dez's current Comics International newszine.

Starburst had launched on the back of the Star Wars phenomenon in 1977. The magazine didn't so much ride on George Lucas' coat-tails - Marvel already had the phenomenally successful Star Wars Weekly doing that -rather it was designed to keep fans informed of the inevitable deluge of science fiction movies, good and bad, that were to follow the first film in Lucasfilms' popular franchise.
In the first few issues we covered Superman the Movie (so you can see we weren't toeing the Marvel party line), Blake's 7, Space 1999 and Doctor Who. TV had the ability to move faster than Hollywood. Finally, the Science fiction movies began to filter through and Starburst began its customary in-depth coverage of films like Alien, The Black Hole, Star Trek, Meteor and Saturn 3.
But nothing stays the same forever and Marvel UK was undergoing some changes.