| Ro-Busters | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Fleetway |
| First appearance | (Starlord) Starlord No. 1 (May 1978) (2000 AD) 2000 AD No. 86 (October 1978) |
| Created by | Pat Mills Kevin O'Neill |
| In-story information | |
| Leader(s) | Howard Quartz |
| Member(s) | Hammerstein Ro-Jaws Mek-Quake Chatterbox |
Ro-Busters is a British comic story that formed part of the original line-up of the magazine Starlord. Similar in premise to that of the Thunderbirds television series, it was created by writer Pat Mills and was drawn by Carlos Pino and Ian Kennedy initially, before Starlord's merger with 2000 AD. After the merger, Dave Gibbons, Kevin O'Neill and Mike McMahon were regular artists on the series, along with occasional contributions from Mike Dorey.
Along with Strontium Dog, Ro-Busters survived Starlord's merger with 2000 AD, its sister comic at IPC Magazines Ltd. The series introduced the decommissioned war robot Hammerstein and the sewer robot Ro-Jaws, and gave rise to the popular ABC Warriors series.