Prince Gavyn was the younger son of the emperor of the intergalactic empire known as Throneworld, within the Earth-One universe. When his father died, his sister assumed control and as a custom for such manners, she executed him by leaving him float in space. However, as a mutant, Gavyn survived the airless vacuum of space and was retrieved by the elderly alien known as Mn'Torr. Granting the prince a pair of jeweled wrist bands that harnessed the power of the stars, Gayvn could direct bio-energy to project force blasts as well as propel himself through space as high velocities. As Starman, Gavyn protected the empire that spurned him and assumed the role of emperor when his sister died, while he married his true love.
An unnamed warrior prince fearlessly defended his homeworld, the fabricted Asgard spawned within the notional dimension attached to the Earth-Two universe. Early in the celestrial conflict known as Ragnarok, the Justice Society of America from the post-Crisis world of Earth-0 journeyed from 1986 to 1945 Earth-Two, with each of its members merging with one of the Asgardian warriors. This prince and Sylvester "Star-Spangled Kid" Pemberton became one-in-the-same, with the Asgardian royal now possessing stellar abilities from Pemberton allowing him to fly at high velocity and project beams of energy.
Both alien princes had brief careers, each ultimately perishing in order to preserved their beloved homelands threatened due to the incursion of forces unleashed during the Crisis on Infinite Earths. However, whereas Starman Gavyn would have his energies transferred from Earth-One's reality and enter the body of Earth-0 human Will Payton, Star-Spangled Kid eventually departed Asgard's realm and returned to his home reality... while the Asgard prince he was once merged with carried on his battles in the Ragnorak conflict alone once more.
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Two other men tied to the Starman legacy, as were the princes of Thronesworld and Asgard, were Richard Rigel and David Knight. Both men had grand aspirations, inspired by members of the Justice League and Justice Society, that ultimately led to them adopting their heroic predecessors' alter egos yet using their stellar powers for evil rather than good.
Richard Rigel was a young astronomer and amateur inventor who became a coworker with research assistant Lucas "Snapper" Carr at S.T.A.R. Laboratories. As the two young men gained each other's acquaintence, Carr confided in Rigel that he had a previous criminal career as Star-Tsar, when Snapper teamed up with master criminal the Key as the two sought revenge against the Justice League of America. While an honorary Leaguer for a number of years, Snapper grew disenfranchised when his reputation as a teenage sidekick of superheroes diminished his career prospects. However, Carr as Star-Tsar soon after joined forces with his Justice League friends in defeating the Key and a third Star-Tsar, Mark "Privateer" Shaw.
David Knight was the oldest son of astronomer and millionaire Theodore Knight, aka the original Starman of Earth-Two. Although at first a reluctant hero, with his father giving his Cosmic Rod to fellow mystery man the Star-Spangled Kid instead of either of his sons, Ted would ultimately find within his son the heart of a champion. However, shortly after embarking on his costumed career, David was shot by the son of the elder Knight's arch-enemy, the Mist. However, a quirk in the fabric of time-space jettisoned David decades into the past.
Stealing the Star-Tsar suit and equipment from S.T.A.R. Labs, Richard became the fourth Star-Tsar and embarked on a crimewave unleashed on Star City. This drew the attention of the city's prime protector Green Arrow and his teammates in the Justice League, and ultimately one of the Ace Archer's gimmick arrows brought about the defeat of this Star-Tsar.
Although in a Post-Crisis world, Davis was sent to forty years prior to the 1950's, where he would be that era's next Starman, in the pre-Crisis world of Earth-Two he was instead sent forty years prior to the 1980's in the early 1940's. Due to the confusion of his unexpected time travel experience, David became a misguided villain who sought out the ancient Atlantan book of Thoth, and was subsequently defeated by his father’s Justice Society teammate, Doctor Fate.
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