The Starfleet First Issue July 1967. The Starfleet insignia on the inside covers is printed in black & [16][17] Among the other creators at Gold Key were writers Donald F. Glut, Len Wein, Bob Ogle, John David Warner, Steve Skeates, and Mark Evanier; and artists Cliff Voorhees, Joe Messerli,[18] Carol Lay, Jesse Santos,[19] and Mike Royer. white. Reprints Gold Key Star Trek #27, 28, 30-34, 36, and 38 with 3 pages of new art. Star Trek Gold Key #1 Variant Photo Star Trek gold Key # 9
reproductions. back cover 12 cent version. Portrait of a starship: The Enterprise. Given for each comic
ISBN 1933160136, trade pb, 200 pp. In "The Brain Shockers" (Issue #11), we learned that
Note Price Sticker pre-dates printed version, Star Trek Gold Key #16, 6p UK Star Trek: The Enterprise Logs Volume 2 [25], Leo Dorfman, creator of Ghosts for DC Comics, also produced supernatural stories for Gold Key's similarly themed Twilight Zone, Ripley's Believe it or Not, Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery, and Grimm's Ghost Stories. Previous Play Pause Next Back Home Gold Key Star Trek #4 page 4 Reprints Gold Key Star Trek comics. They experimented … ISBN 0-307-11185-7, trade pb, #2 1976 [57] However, DIC would pass off the purchase due to high costs[58] and instead Golden Books Family Entertainment was eventually acquired jointly by Classic Media, owner of the catalog of United Productions of America (UPA) and book publisher Random House in a bankruptcy auction for the lower $84.4 million on August 16, 2001. In the mid-1960s, a number of artists were recruited by the newly formed Disney Studio Program and thereafter divided their output between the Disney Program and Western. Like Dell, Gold Key was one of the few major American comic book publishers never to display the Comics Code Authority seal on its covers. Within a year they had reverted to using inked panel borders and oval balloons. These three dozen or so alien races seen in the 61 issues of the Gold Key series
in the first volume of Star Trek: The Enterprise Logs. Photos of Spock and a bottom view of the Enterprise on the cover. cover, Star Trek gold Key # 8. Available Stock; Reprints Gold Key Star Trek comics #44 and #46-52. and the 15 cent price sticker over the 12 cent, The inside covers are exactly the the Enterprise crew encountered a female Romulan starship commander. The Gold Key series of STAR TREK comics was concerned with the adventures of the crew of the Federation Starship Enterprise under the command of Captain James Kirk. $0.15. Star Trek Comics - Gold Key & Whitman Variants . They couldn't very well complain that a plot taken from the show was inappropriate".[8]. Photos of Spock and a rear view of the Enterprise on the cover. It is also alleged by Carmine Infantino that in the mid-to-late 1960s DC Comics attempted to pressure Gold Key from the comics business through sheer weight of output. Gold Key and Whitman Issues with Variants and Foreign Reprints. Those bottled emotions survived through the centuries, and were to have been placed in a shrine erected by the Vulcan people on the planet Beta IV. skinned in the television series and had plenty of hair, but in the comic appearances they
Photos of Spock, McCoy, Kirk, and Sulu on cover. Artist/writer Frank Miller had his first published comic book artwork in The Twilight Zone for Gold Key in 1978. Tags: Star Trek. in black & white. like bald caucasian humans. Reprints Gold Key Star Trek #1-8 with 7 pages of new art. ISBN 0-307-11188-1, trade pb, Reprints Gold Key Star Trek #27, 28, 30-34, 36, and 38 with 3 pages of new art. The comic series made
Thus the comics could easily depict all types of interesting alien life-forms, but for some reason
In a 1993 interview, Del Connell, the managing editor at Western's West Coast office in the late 1970s, recalled, To cut a long story short, the Western comics line was killed by distribution. ISBN 0971024987, trade pb, 224 pp, full color, 6.75 in X 10.25 in, #3 Spring 2005 Sep 2006 Star Trek Gold Key #10, 15 cent have painted covers. There is a cover variant without the words "The Enterprise Logs". Former DC Comics Executive Paul Levitz stated that the "Western program was enormous — even well into the 1970s they were taking very large numbers of DC titles for distribution (I recall 50,000+ copies offhand). thousands of years ago on the planet Vulcan the group of rational men who founded the new Vulcan philosophy based on logic and seeking perfection, developed a
Inside covers feature a full color Starfleet insignia. Commander Spock: Psycho-File. Star Trek: Gold Key Archives, Vol. Photos of Kirk and Spock on cover. without photo back cover. Reprints Gold Key Star Trek #34, #36, and #38-43 (eight issues) in color with The first Nine Issues had photo front covers with the first Three Issues having variants with pictures on the back cover as well. Volume 7 It also lost the rights to publish Star Trek-based comic books to Marvel Comics just prior to the revival of the franchise via Star Trek: The Motion Picture, with the final Gold Key-published Star Trek title being issued in March 1979. [5] While some titles, such as Star Trek and The Twilight Zone, were published for many years, many other licensed titles were characterized by short runs, sometimes publishing no more than one or two issues. [1] Its editorial policies had not kept pace with the changing times and suffered an erosion of its base of sales among children, who could now watch cartoons and other entertainment on television for free instead. Some comics in this series were published with US and UK price variants, pin-up photos, and the Whitman logo. like caucasian humans. Enterprise which operated under the auspices of the United Federation of Planets' Starfleet. 15 Cent CGC 9.4, Star Trek gold Key # 3 Once scrolled down, one can return back to the map by clicking on the "Top" buttons. Volume 4 4 $ 11.99 – $ 29.99. 1/78 CGC 9.6, Star Trek Whitman #51 Blue Tint
[24], According to former Western Publishing writer Mark Evanier, during the mid-1960s comedy writer Jerry Belson, whose writing partner at the time was Garry Marshall, also did scripts for Gold Key while writing for leading TV sitcoms like The Dick Van Dyke Show. besides price. insignia on the inside covers is printed in black & white. Most plots in the Gold Key series featured original characters and concepts, but later issues included sequels to the original series episodes "The City on the Edge of Forever", "Metamorphosis", and "I, Mudd". Gold Key and Whitman Issues with Variants and Foreign Reprints. Novaro #1143, May 25, 1976, Spanish color reprint of Note the sign off Date Jan 16 1968 in the first volume of Star Trek: The Enterprise Logs. Writer/artist Russ Manning and editor Chase Craig launched the Magnus, Robot Fighter science fiction series in 1963. In most issues, the crew members, except for Spock, wear lime green uniforms. ISBN 1933160144, trade pb, 200 pp #7 Canceled Volume 7 Reprints Gold Key Star Trek comics. CGC 9.0, Star Trek Gold Key #59
menaced the Enterprise crew in the comics on only a few occasions. [1] Hoping to make their comics more like traditional children's books, they initially eliminated panel line-borders, using just the panel, with its ink and artwork evenly edged but not bordered by a "container" line. In June 2001, DIC Entertainment announced they would purchase Golden Books Family Entertainment for $170 Million and send them out of bankruptcy. ISBN 0974166448, trade pb, 224 pp, 6.75 in X 10.25 in, #2 Fall 2004 The comics series wasn't constrained by special make-up budgets like the television series. Issues 51,52&53. Lieutenant Commander Montgomery Scott appeared in 49 stories (not in #1, 4, 5, 7, 17, 20, 31, 48), though he was not drawn to resemble James Doohan until #12. [65], "The Biggest Disney Comic Book in the World", "Diana Gabaldon on her favorite and least-favorite books: The EW Book Quiz! Was this issue made for two Inside covers feature a full color Starfleet insignia. ISBN 1933160136, trade pb, 200 pp. ISBN 0975380850, trade pb, 216 pp, full color, 6.75 in X 10.25 in, Reprints Gold Key Star Trek #25-28 and #30-33 (eight issues) in color with cover