Star Trek (Whitman)

Star Trek was a series published by Gold Key Comics (part of Whitman Publishing), running for 61 issues from until , when the series was canceled due to the license being taken over by Marvel Comics for its adaptation of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (comic). Various issues were reprinted in a variety of formats over the years in both the US and the UK.
For the first issues of the run, they were only printed with a Gold Key logo in the upper left corner. The company began issuing covers with the Whitman logo beginning with issue #20: "A World Gone Mad". From that point on, the Gold Key logo was used for newsstand distribution and the Whitman logo for retail shops.
The first nine issues of the series were published with photo covers, made up of photographs from various episodes from the original series. After that, every cover was painted, including the covers of reprinted issues, with the exception of issue #45: "The Voodoo Planet", a reprint of the seventh issue in the run, with no cover change. Issue #45 was also the first issue with a UPC code.
The series began its run with a cost of 12 cents an issue, and ended at 35 cents per issue. A number of issues were published with two different prices, and are noted below.
A script for issue #62 was delivered entitled "Trial By Fire" by John Warner, with Frank Bolle scheduled to do the artwork, but none was ever completed for the issue.
The company also released a "young reader" novel called Mission to Horatius.
== Creators ==
* Based on Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry
* Writers:
** Dick Wood (#1-8, #29, #35, #37, #45)
** Len Wein (#9-16)
** Arnold Drake (#17-20, #24-25, #32, #34, #36, #38-44, #46, #48, #55, #57, #59)
** John Warner (#21, #26-27, #31, #60, #62)
** Gerry Boudreau (#22-23)
** George Kashdan (#28, #47, #49-54, #56, #58, #61)
** Allan Moniz (#30, #33)
** Doug Drexler (#47-48)
* Artists:
** Nevio Zeccara (#1-2, #29)
** Alberto Giolitti (#3-28, #30-37, #39, #45)
** Alden McWilliams (#38, #40-44, #46-61)
* Cover Artists:
** George Wilson (cover art for #10-29, #31-44, #46-59)
** Frank Bolle (cover art for #60-61)
Unfortunately, most of the writers and artists were not credited, and only anecdotal evidence survives as to who contributed to the series. Some of the other names of writers that are known include Dick Wood, Gerry Boudreau, Allan Moniz, and Paul S. Newman. Other artist names that are known include Giovanni Ticci (an inker on several of Alberto Giolitti's issues) and possibly Angelo Todaro, Massimo Belardinelli, Giorgio Cambiotti, and Mario Pedrazzi.
== Issues ==
:Note that issues in italics are reprints of earlier issues.
# 	Title 	Stardate 	Date published	Writer(s) 	Artist
1 	"The Planet of No Return" 	18:09.2 (2260s) 	 	Dick Wood 	Nevio Zeccara
2 	"The Devil's Isle of Space" 	19:03.2 (2260s) 	 	Dick Wood 	Nevio Zeccara
3 	"Invasion of the City Builders" 	20:14.6 (2260s) 	 	Dick Wood 	Alberto Giolitti
4 	"The Peril of Planet Quick Change"	21:06.7 (2260s) 	 	Dick Wood 	Alberto Giolitti
5 	"The Ghost Planet" 	26:06.4 (2260s) 	 	Dick Wood 	Alberto Giolitti
6 	"When Planets Collide" 	23:009 (2260s) 	 	Dick Wood 	Alberto Giolitti
7 	"The Voodoo Planet" 	24:17.9 (2260s) 	 	Dick Wood 	Alberto Giolitti
8 	"The Youth Trap" 	31:09.4 (2260s) 	 	Dick Wood 	Alberto Giolitti
9 	"The Legacy of Lazarus" 	10:26.3 (2260s) 	 	Len Wein 	Alberto Giolitti
10	"Sceptre of the Sun" 	12:48.6 (2260s) 	 	Len Wein 	Alberto Giolitti
11	"The Brain Shockers" 	11:26.1 (2260s) 	 	Len Wein 	Alberto Giolitti
12	"The Flight of the Buccaneer" 	32:46.3 (2260s) 	 	Len Wein 	Alberto Giolitti
13	"Dark Traveler" 	14:83.4 (2260s) 	 	Len Wein 	Alberto Giolitti
14	"The Enterprise Mutiny" 	18:41.2 (2260s) 	 	Len Wein 	Alberto Giolitti
15	"Museum at the End of Time" 	25:53.2 (2260s) 	 	Len Wein 	Alberto Giolitti
16	"Day of the Inquisitors" 	45:25.2 (2260s) 	 	Len Wein 	Alberto Giolitti
17	"The Cosmic Cavemen" 	19:24.3 (2260s) 	 	Arnold Drake 	Alberto Giolitti
18	"The Hijacked Planet" 	32:48.6 (2260s) 	 	Arnold Drake 	Alberto Giolitti
19	"The Haunted Asteroid" 	24:92.5 (2260s) 	 	Arnold Drake 	Alberto Giolitti
20	"A World Gone Mad" 	32:47.2 (2260s) 	 	Arnold Drake 	Alberto Giolitti
21	"The Mummies of Heitius VII" 	30:26.5 (2260s) 	 	John David Warner 	Alberto Giolitti
22	"Siege in Superspace" 	36:24.3 (2260s) 	 	Gerry Boudreau 	Alberto Giolitti
23	"" 	17:23.4 (2260s) 	 	Gerry Boudreau 	Alberto Giolitti
24	"The Trial of Captain Kirk" 	19:26.2 (2260s) 	 	Arnold Drake 	Alberto Giolitti
25	"Dwarf Planet" 	19:24.8 (2260s) 	 	Arnold Drake 	Alberto Giolitti
26	"The Perfect Dream" 	30:19.12 (2260s) 	 	John David Warner 	Alberto Giolitti
27	"Ice Journey" 	20:27.3 (2260s) 	 	John David Warner 	Alberto Giolitti
28	"The Mimicking Menace" 	34:21.7 (2260s) 	 	George Kashdan 	Alberto Giolitti
29	"The Planet of No Return" 	18:09.2 (2260s) 	 	Dick Wood 	Nevio Zeccara
30	"Death of a Star" 	33:33.3 (2260s) 	 	Allan Moniz 	Alberto Giolitti
31	"The Final Truth" 	20:10.7 (2260s) 	 	John David Warner 	Alberto Giolitti
32	"The Animal People" 	19:26.11 (2260s) 	 	Arnold Drake 	Alberto Giolitti
33	"The Choice" 	17:01.02 (2260s) 	 	Allan Moniz 	Alberto Giolitti
34	"The PsychoCrystals" 	19:27.4 (2260s) 	 	Arnold Drake 	Alberto Giolitti
35	"The Peril of Planet Quick Change"	21:06.7 (2260s) 	 	Dick Wood 	Alberto Giolitti
36	"A Bomb in Time" 	19:25.9 (2260s, 1855, 1955)	 	Arnold Drake 	Alberto Giolitti
37	"The Ghost Planet" 	26:06.4 (2260s) 	 	Dick Wood 	Alberto Giolitti
38	"One of Our Captains Is Missing!" 	19:29:13 (2260s) 	 	Arnold Drake 	Alden McWilliams
39	"Prophet of Peace" 	unknown (2260s) 	 	Arnold Drake 	Alberto Giolitti
40	"Furlough to Fury" 	19:25.9 (2260s) 	 	Arnold Drake 	Alden McWilliams
41	"The Evictors" 	19:27.12 (2260s) 	 	Arnold Drake 	Alden McWilliams
42	"World Against Time" 	19:29.06 (2260s) 	 	Arnold Drake 	Alden McWilliams
43	"World Beneath the Waves" 	19:26.03 (2260s) 	 	Arnold Drake 	Alden McWilliams
44	"Prince Traitor" 	unknown (2260s) 	 	Arnold Drake 	Alden McWilliams
45	"The Voodoo Planet" 	24:17.9 (2260s) 	 	Dick Wood 	Alberto Giolitti
46	"Mr. Oracle" 	unknown (2260s) 	 	Arnold Drake 	Alden McWilliams
47	"This Tree Bears Bitter Fruit" 	67:32.4 (2260s) 	 	George Kashdan & Doug Drexler	Alden McWilliams
48	"Murder Boards the Enterprise" 	5716.4 (2260s) 	 	Arnold Drake & Doug Drexler 	Alden McWilliams
49	"A Warp in Space" 	unknown (2260s) 	 	George Kashdan 	Alden McWilliams
50	"The Planet of No Life" 	unknown (2260s) 	 	George Kashdan 	Alden McWilliams
51	"Destination Annihilation" 	26:04.4 (2260s) 	 	George Kashdan 	Alden McWilliams
52	"And a Child Shall Lead Them" 	28:11.5 (2260s) 	 	George Kashdan 	Alden McWilliams
53	"What Fools These Mortals Be" 	2901.1 (2260s) 	 	George Kashdan 	Alden McWilliams
54	"Sport of Knaves" 	3004.8 (2260s) 	 	George Kashdan 	Alden McWilliams
55	"A World Against Itself" 	72:35:3 (2260s) 	 	Arnold Drake 	Alden McWilliams
56	"" 	3275.2 (2260s) 	 	George Kashdan 	Alden McWilliams
57	"Spore of the Devil" 	19:29:51 (2260s) 	 	Arnold Drake 	Alden McWilliams
58	"Brain-Damaged Planet" 	3315.5 (2260s) 	 	George Kashdan 	Alden McWilliams
59	"To Err Is Vulcan" 	9126.1 (2260s) 	 	Arnold Drake 	Alden McWilliams
60	"The Empire Man" 	2314.6 (2260s) 	 	John Warner 	Alden McWilliams
61	"Operation Con Game" 	3504.7 (2260s) 	 	George Kashdan 	Alden McWilliams
62	"Trial By Fire" 	3708.2 (2260s) 	unpublished 	John Warner 	Frank Bolle
== Collections ==
* Star Trek: The Enterprise Logs:
** Enterprise Log 1 (reprinted as Key Collection volume 1 by Checker Books)
** Enterprise Log 2 (reprinted as Key Collection volume 2 by Checker Books)
** Enterprise Log 3 (reprinted as Key Collection volume 3 by Checker Books)
** Enterprise Log 4 (reprinted as Key Collection volume 4 by Checker Books)
** Key Collection volume 5 (by Checker Books)
* Star Trek: Gold Key Archives
** Volume 1
** Volume 2
** Volume 3
** Volume 4
** Volume 5
** Volume 6
== Novels ==
* Mission to Horatius (by Mack Reynolds)
== Characters ==
:See Gold Key TOS characters.
=== Main characters ===
* Captain James T. Kirk
* Commander Spock
* Doctor Leonard McCoy
* Lieutenant Commander Montgomery Scott
* Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu
* Lieutenant Uhura
* Ensign Pavel Chekov
* Yeoman Janice Rand
== External link ==
* 
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