Star Trek Comics Weekly #14
This week’s column examines DC Comics’ Star Trek #1–8, leading up to the company’s adaptation of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
Rich Handley Author and Editor
This week’s column examines DC Comics’ Star Trek #1–8, leading up to the company’s adaptation of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
Despite common wisdom, Marvel’s Star Trek was undeniably connected to the TV show, thanks to sly writers determined to do what they’d been mandated not to.
This week, we’ll examine issues #1–9 of Marvel’s first Star Trek series, in the context of how well they fared with regard to TV tie-ins. For Marvel, it was a tricky situation.
The Star Trek comic strips’ final 12 stories were not as consistently well told or drawn as Thomas Warkentin’s, but they did provide a few tie-ins to televised and filmed Trek.