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Paramount Licenses Reprints of Original Gold Key TREK Comics, First Volume Due in March

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By Steve Krutzler / 09:29, 29 January 2004 / General Star Trek

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Paramount and Checker Book Publishing Group have announced a licensing deal for the publisher to issue new reprints of several classic STAR TREK comics.

Originally printed beginning in 1967 and running until 1979, Western Publishing produced sixty full-color issues under is Gold Key banner. The 1970s also saw newsprint paperback editions issued under the title THE ENTERPRISE LOGS.

Checker has compiled issues 1-8 in the first edition to come out of the license, set for publication in March. Writing credits on these original Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the gang stories are unknown, but they feature art from Nevio Zaccara
(1,2) and Alberto Giolitti (3-8). Later issues featured the writing talents of Len Wein,
George Kashdan and event ENTERPRISE illustrator Doug Drexler.

Checker was formed four years ago with the intent to "bring the absolute best
of dormant, unpublished, and under-published serial comics and cartooning back to
print," according to a press release.

Check out Comicon for the original release. You may pre-order the first edition reprint to support TrekWeb through Barnes & Noble.

Learn all about the original adventures at the Guide to the Gold Key STAR TREK Comics web site.



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Kind of cool | Report this post to moderator
By: John (Odo's file, contact) @ 08:10:04 on Feb 01, 2004

I've only seen a small number of these. I have somewhere a special double issue reprint they released, first one was the one with Kirk meeting his double then having to battle him and his Enterprise, second part was where this big round ship thing was attacking this one planet. I'll be looking to pick up this reprint book thing too, just hope they didn't churn out stories and artwork as bad as the Marvel run after TMP which basicly went from ok to bad to worse.


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Happy to see these stories back in print | Report this post to moderator
By: The Nightfly (Odo's file, contact) @ 07:44:11 on Jan 30, 2004



I have most of these comics already, but I'll be buying these editions too, just to support the project. The art in the early issues was a little rough, perhaps due to the artist's unfamiliarity with the show. In at least one issue the artist had rocket exhaust shooting out of the Enterprise's nacelles, or maybe it was the shuttlebay. The later issues had some beautiful art by Al McWilliams (Think Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon or any of Al Williamson's sci-fi stories for EC and others.). I just hope they don't reduce the art to a muddy, murky mess with a lot of "modern style" computer coloring. The stories could be simplistic at times, but they were still entertaining in the same odd way that some of the early Bantam novels could be.


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By: Captain Archer (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:29:15 on Jan 29, 2004

Is this like the final nails in the coffin before Paramount totally jettisons Trek into oblivion until 2020 when an aging Ashton Kutcher is signed on to recreate the TOS role of Captain Kirk?

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    By: Krazy Joe (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:19:00 on Jan 29, 2004

    Why is releasing an old run or a classic and highly sought after comic book series "final nails"??

    That doesn't make sense to me.


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      By: Captain Archer (Odo's file, contact) @ 08:59:49 on Jan 30, 2004

      I remember these comics as a kid. They are truely awful and would turn a non fan into ev more of a non fan.

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        By: Krazy Joe (Odo's file, contact) @ 12:19:51 on Jan 30, 2004

        I don't know if I agree with you there. I have always wanted to read these, but reprints have never been readily available. I'm a longtime fan from the days before there was a Next Generation, but young enough that I wasn't around when these comics were first published. I don't see making a product available that the fans want putting a nail in the coffin.

        I think the coffin will be nailed when there is no longer a demand for STar Trek merchandise.


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    By: Anslem1701 (Odo's file, contact) @ 14:34:34 on Jan 29, 2004

    I don't think I could watch us all be Punk'd by that horror... LOL

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    ikitai yo
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    yumemiru" -- Rikki/Uematsu, Suteki da ne


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By: Brikar (Odo's file, contact) @ 11:21:26 on Jan 29, 2004

Excellent. I've got some of these, and they were pretty bad, but I'd love to read more. I still remember the issue where the Enterprise crew had to fight mummies.

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