Star Trek Comics Weekly #18
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home altered the landscape of DC Comics’ monthly Star Trek title.
Rich Handley Author and Editor
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home altered the landscape of DC Comics’ monthly Star Trek title.
In its lead-up to Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, DC Comics faced quite a challenge. Here’s how DC got around it.
This week’s column explores DC’s Star Trek #21–32, during which James T. Kirk commanded the USS Excelsior, while Spock captained the USS Surak.
“New Frontiers,” published in DC’s Star Trek #9-20, took eight months to unfold and brought back familiar faces from the episodes and films.
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.
The L.A. Times Syndicate’s Star Trek’s comic strips hit newspapers around the time of The Motion Picture. So why didn’t most fans even know about them?
As we continue to examine how Star Trek comics offer sequels, prequels, and tie-ins to onscreen lore, it’s time for a roundup of unusual entries in the annals of Starfleet history.