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Star Trek Gold Key Comics series

Gold Key comics were published by Western Publishing , a company with an interesting and confusing history. Some comics in this series were published with US and UK price variants, pin-up photos, and the Whitman logo . For more detailed plot summaries, you can go offsite and visit Curt Danhauser's Guide to the Gold Key Star Trek Comics . You can view a gallery of all Gold Key/Whitman variant covers , Gold Key multipacks , and Whitman 3-packs . A gallery of painted cover art for Gold Key Star Trek comics is a work in progress.

#1 Oct 1967 The planet of no return Kirk, McCoy and Rand explore a planet where plants are the highest link in the food chain, and the plants are hungry. Stardate 18:09.2 Photos of Spock, Kirk, and Sulu on cover. Janice Rand makes her only Gold Key Star Trek comics appearance in this issue. Most guides list the publication date of Star Trek #1 as Jul 1967. The date listed is based on the publisher code. Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide no longer lists a scarce variant edition of Star Trek #1, sometimes designated Star Trek #1A. Star Trek #1 with a pin-up photo on the back cover is the only edition that exists. Writer: Dick Wood ? Artist: Nevio Zeccara

#2 Jun 1968 The devil's isle of space Kirk is trapped on a doomed asteroid with condemned convicts awaiting an unusual execution. Stardate 19:03.4 Photos of Spock and Kirk on cover. The common edition of this comic has advertising on the back page, with a 12c or 15c cover price . A variant edition , sometimes designated as Star Trek #2A in price guides, has pin-up photos on the inside and back covers, and a 15c cover price. The variant edition may also appear with a 12c cover price, but I haven't found any supporting evidence. Writer: Dick Wood ? Artist: Nevio Zeccara

#3 Dec 1968 Invasion of the city builders Kirk and Spock aid a planet whose out-of-control machines are building over every available piece of land. Stardate 20:14.6 Photos of Spock and the bridge crew on cover. The common edition has advertising on the back cover and a 15c cover price. A variant edition sometimes designated as Star Trek #3A in price guides, has pin-up photos on the inside and back covers. Writer: Dick Wood ? Artists: Alberto Giolitti, Giovanni Ticci?

#4 Jun 1969 The peril of planet Quick Change Spock helps revive an ancient civilization, but one of the beings takes over Spock's body in order to leave his world and travel into space. Stardate 21:06.7 Photos of the Enterprise, Spock, Kirk, and an alien on cover. Writer: Dick Wood ? Artist: Alberto Giolitti

#5 Sep 1969 The ghost planet Kirk and Spock must prevent two warring leaders from resuming hostilities after their planet is freed from deadly radiation rings. Stardate 26:06.4 Photos of Spock and Kirk on cover. Writer: Dick Wood ? Artist: Alberto Giolitti

#6 Dec 1969 When planets collide The Enterprise must save two planets from colliding. The only choice appears to be destroying one of them, but both are inhabited. Stardate 23:009 Photo of Spock on cover. A poorly scaled cutaway drawing of the Enterprise appears on page 27. Writer: Dick Wood ? Artist: Alberto Giolitti

#7 Mar 1970 The voodoo planet The Enterprise encounters a planet which is an exact duplicate of Earth, without people. A madman uses voodoo to hold Earth hostage until Kirk and Spock learn his secrets. Stardate 24:17.9 Photos of Spock, McCoy, Kirk on cover. You can listen to the League of Ordinary Gentlemen Comics Podcast Oddio Comic adaptation of The voodoo planet : Part 1 and Part 2 . These podcasts are also available via iTunes , podcasts #37 (Part 1) and #34 (Part 2). Writer: Dick Wood ? Artist: Alberto Giolitti

#8 Sep 1970 The youth trap Aliens experimenting with an age-ray cause members of a landing party to grow young, forcing Kirk to deal with McCoy and Scotty as children. Stardate 31:09.5 Photo cover. Writer: Dick Wood ? Artist: Alberto Giolitti

#9 Feb 1971 The legacy of Lazarus The Enterprise discovers a planet inhabited by every famous person who ever walked Earth. Spock is taken prisoner by their creator, Lazarus, who wants Spock's brain. Stardate 10:26.3 Photos of Spock and Kirk on cover. Writer: Len Wein Artist: Alberto Giolitti

#10 May 1971 Sceptre of the sun Kirk and Spock must help an evil sorcerer obtain "The Sceptre of the Sun" or he will destroy the Enterprise. They battle against living mountains and the robot guardian of the Sceptre. Stardate 12:48.6 The Eugenics Wars are mentioned. You can see a series of cover proof images . Writer: Len Wein Artist: Alberto Giolitti Cover artist: George Wilson

#11 Aug 1971 The brain shockers Bottled emotions from Vulcan's past break free and enter members of the Enterprise crew. The ship is captured by an immortal being who explores his captive's emotions to prevent boredom. Stardate 11:26.1 Writer: Len Wein Artist: Alberto Giolitti Cover artist: George Wilson

#12 Nov 1971 The flight of the Buccaneer To prevent their cover from being blown, Kirk and McCoy sacrifice Spock and Scotty to space pirates in search of a dilithium crystal treasure. Stardate 3246.3 Writer: Len Wein Artist: Alberto Giolitti Cover artist: George Wilson

#13 Feb 1972 Dark traveler The Enterprise picks up an intergalactic hitchhiker and is forced to take him to his utopian homeworld, only to find cities in ruin and murderous robots. Stardate 14:83.4 This is the last issue to display exhaust flames coming out of the nacelles and secondary hull. Writer: Len Wein Artist: Alberto Giolitti Cover artist: George Wilson

#14 May 1972 The Enterprise mutiny Following a planetary survey, Kirk begins acting irrationally. Spock and McCoy attempt to relieve Kirk of command but he escapes in a shuttle, with the Enterprise in pursuit. Stardate 18:41.2 This issue was published with 15c and 20c cover price. Writer: Len Wein Artists: Alberto Giolitti, Giovanni Ticci? Cover artist: George Wilson

#15 Aug 1972 Museum at the end of time The Enterprise is trapped in a graveyard for ships and needs a Klingon starship's help to get out. Stardate 24:53.2 Story is similar to ST:TAS episode The Time Trap . This issue was published with 15c and 20c cover price. Writer: Len Wein Artist: Alberto Giolitti Cover artist: George Wilson

#16 Nov 1972 Day of the inquisitors Several crewmembers crash-land a shuttle on a planet still in its dark ages. Kirk has to unite two sides, "barbarians" and "religious extremists", before the planet tears itself apart, with his shuttle party in the middle of it all. Stardate 43:25.2 This issue was published with 15c and 20c cover price. Writer: Len Wein Artists: Angelo Todaro, Alberto Giolitti Cover artist: George Wilson

#17 Feb 1973 The cosmic cavemen An Enterprise landing party surveys a planet whose stone age inhabitants worship an idol that looks like Spock. Stardate 19:24.3 This issue was published with 15c and 20c cover price. The "primary" directive is mentioned (not the "prime" directive). Writer: Arnold Drake ? Artists: Alberto Giolitti, Giovanni Ticci? Cover artist: George Wilson

#18 May 1973 The hijacked planet The inhabitants of an entire planet, recorded on magnetic tape, are hijacked and held for ransom. The Enterprise must recover the tape before the hijacker destroys it. Stardate 3248.6 This issue was published with 15c and 20c cover price. Writer: Arnold Drake ? Artists: Alberto Giolitti, Giovanni Ticci? Cover artist: George Wilson

#19 Jul 1973 The haunted asteroid The Enterprise investigates an asteroid memorial to a long-dead queen, where too many people have disappeared without a trace. Stardate 24:92.5 Writer: Arnold Drake ? Artist: Alberto Giolitti Cover artist: George Wilson

#20 Sep 1973 A world gone mad The Enterprise returns the young heir to the throne of a planet gone mad in the wake of a comet's passing. Stardate 3247.2 Writer: Arnold Drake ? Artist: Alberto Giolitti Cover artist: George Wilson ?

#21 Nov 1973 The mummies of Heitus VII A mummy being taken to a research center by the Enterprise comes alive and takes over the ship, steering it towards Romulan space. Stardate 30:26:5 Writer: John Warner ? Artist: Alberto Giolitti

#22 Jan 1974 Siege in superspace The Enterprise passes through a black hole to superspace, where, on a marshy planet, a landing party and the planet's inhabitants are besieged by an army of vegetable-metalloid monsters. Stardate 36:24.3 The story is a stealth sequel to a story arc that appeared in Star Spangled War Stories #170 (Jun 1973) and Star Spangled War Stories #180 (May-Jun 1974) . Writer: Gerry Boudreau Artist: Alberto Giolitti Cover artist: George Wilson

#23 Mar 1974 Child's play Responding to a distress call, Kirk and and his landing party transport to a planet where children are the only survivors of a worldwide plague. The Enterprise must race across the galaxy to bring back the only known cure before Kirk and his party die too. Stardate 17:23.4 Writer: Gerry Boudreau ? Artist: Alberto Giolitti Cover artist: George Wilson

#24 May 1974 The trial of Captain Kirk Kirk is framed by a pirate iron-mining ring for accepting a bribe to protect illegal mining operations. The crew of the Enterprise goes after proof of Kirk's innocence, who undergoes surgery to look like a native with an afro . Stardate 19:26.2 Writer: Arnold Drake ? Artist: Alberto Giolitti Cover artist: George Wilson

#25 Jul 1974 Dwarf planet The Enterprise visits a planet whose population is slowly shrinking from unusual solar radiation. While trying to discover an antidote, Scotty is exposed to radiation and shrinks to microscopic size. Stardate 19:24.8 Writer: Arnold Drake ? Artist: Alberto Giolitti Cover artist: George Wilson

#26 Sep 1974 The perfect dream The Enterprise discovers a world where clones lead an idyllic existence, but are not allowed to question or create. Stardate 30:20:4 Writer: John Warner ? Artists: Angelo Todaro, Alberto Giolitti Cover artist: George Wilson

#27 Nov 1974 Ice journey The Enterprise ignites a civil war on a doomed planet. Stardate 20:27.3 Writer: John Warner ? Artist: Alberto Giolitti Cover artist: George Wilson

#28 Jan 1975 The mimicking menace Members of an Enterprise landing party find themselves facing their doubles on a volcanic asteroid. The doubles were created by a parasitic life form that feeds off of living and mechanical energy. Stardate 34.21.7 Writer: George Kashdan ? Artist: Alberto Giolitti Cover artist: George Wilson

#29 Mar 1975 The planet of no return Reprints Gold Key #1 with a painted cover. Writer: Dick Wood ? Artist: Nevio Zeccara Cover artist: George Wilson

#30 May 1975 Death of a star On a mission to observe a stellar nova, the Enterprise finds massive signs of life on a nearby planet, but only a single individual, an ancient woman who invites the crew to witness her death. Stardate 33:33.3 Writer: Allan Moniz Artist: Alberto Giolitti

#31 Jul 1975 The final truth An Enterprise shuttle crashes on a world prohibited to outsiders. Crew members are forced to wear punisher collars and help feed the planet's life presence. Stardate 20:1:7 Writer: John Warner ? Artist: Alberto Giolitti Cover artist: Chuck Liese

#32 Aug 1975 The animal people The Enterprise comes to the aid of a planet which is being overrun by maddened animals. Spock discovers that the "animals" are intelligent, but this knowledge puts the landing party in danger because planetary leaders want to keep this information secret. Stardate 19:26:11 Writer: Arnold Drake ? Artist: Alberto Giolitti Cover artist: George Wilson ?

#33 Sep 1975 The choice Kirk duels with his double from another universe to decide the fate of this universe. Stardate 17:01.02 Writer: Allan Moniz Artist: Alberto Giolitti Cover artist: George Wilson ?

#34 Oct 1975 The psychocrystals An Enterprise survey party is captured by crystalline aliens and sentenced to death for attempted kidnapping of crystal babies. Stardate 19:27.4 Writer: Arnold Drake ? Artist: Alberto Giolitti Cover artist: George Wilson

#35 Nov 1975 The peril of planet Quick Change Reprints Gold Key #4 with a painted cover. Writer: Dick Wood ? Artist: Alberto Giolitti

#36 Mar 1976 A bomb in time Renegade scientists hold Earth for ransom by threatening to explode a devastating new explosive device somewhen in Earth's past. Scotty goes back to the old west of 1855 and Kirk goes back to 1955 to search for the bomb. Stardate 19:25.9 Writer: Arnold Drake ? Artist: Alberto Giolitti Cover artist: George Wilson

#37 May 1976 The ghost planet Reprints Gold Key #5 with a painted cover. Writer: Dick Wood ? Artist: Alberto Giolitti Cover artist: George Wilson ?

#38 Jul 1976 One of our captains is missing Kirk is sent on a special assignment to investigate suspected Klingon covert activities and a hard-nosed captain takes command of the Enterprise. Stardate 19:29:13 Writer: Arnold Drake ? Artist: Alden McWilliams Cover artist: George Wilson ?

#39 Aug 1976 Prophet of peace The Enterprise recovers a brilliant scientist from cryogenic deep-freeze but aliens may have planted a duplicate. Stardate 18:06.9 Writer: Arnold Drake ? Artist: Alden McWilliams, José Delbo ? Cover artist: George Wilson

#40 Sep 1976 Furlough to fury McCoy visits his daughter Barbara, a xenobiologist. Scotty and Kirk thwart the larcenous plans of a former crewman with the help of one of Barbara's alien beasts. Stardate 19:25.9 Writer: Arnold Drake ? Artist: Alden McWilliams Cover artist: George Wilson

#41 Nov 1976 The evictors The Enterprise is visiting a planet on a protocol mission when, after hundreds of thousands of years, the original inhabitants return to reclaim their home. Stardate 19:27:12 Writer: Arnold Drake ? Artist: Alden McWilliams Cover artist: George Wilson ?

#42 Jan 1977 World against time The Enterprise discovers a planet populated by children who were adults, until radiation began to change them. Spock and Scotty begin to grow young again as they attempt to shield the radiation source. Stardate 19:29:06 Writer: Arnold Drake ? Artist: Alden McWilliams Cover artist: George Wilson ?

#43 Feb 1977 World beneath the waves After picking up Dr. Barbara McCoy, xenobiologist and McCoy's daughter, the Enterprise heads for a world where air-breathers have developed into water-breathers to escape a planet-wide catastrophe. The Enterprise crew is drawn into a conflict between the ocean-dwellers and surface-dwellers. Stardate 19:26:03 Writer: Arnold Drake or George Kashdan ? Artist: Alden McWilliams Cover artist: George Wilson

#44 May 1977 Prince Traitor Kirk, Spock, and Scotty are captured by a rebel leader who turns out to be the Emperor's son. He plans to barter their lives for the freedom of his people. Stardate 19:26:4 Writer: Arnold Drake ? Artist: Alden McWilliams Cover artist: George Wilson

#45 Jul 1977 The voodoo planet Reprints Gold Key #7 and photo cover. This is the first issue with a barcode. Writer: Dick Wood ? Artist: Alberto Giolitti

#46 Aug 1977 Mr. Oracle Spock's brain is filled with the knowledge of an entire world. He becomes insane and imprisons Kirk, Scott and McCoy on a hostile world that obeys only his orders. Stardate 23:19.2 Writer: Arnold Drake ? Artist: Alden McWilliams

#47 Sep 1977 This tree bears bitter fruit The Enterprise encounters energy beings who are being nurtured to take care of the universe. Kirk engages in single combat with one of the beings to save humanity. Stardate 67:32.4 Writer and artist credits begin with this issue. Writers: George Kashdan, Doug Drexler Artist: Alden McWilliams Cover artist: Mike Roy ?

#48 Oct 1977 Murder on the Enterprise A renowned scientist is murdered aboard the Enterprise while being taken to a conference. The suspects are his colleagues. Spock and McCoy solve the crime. Stardate 5716.4 Writers: Arnold Drake, Doug Drexler Artist: Alden McWilliams Cover artist: Mike Roy ?

#49 Nov 1977 A warp in space Kirk seeks the aid of Zefram Cochrane and the Companion ( Metamorphosis ) after several experimental starships disappear while testing a hyper-warp drive. Stardate 3803.6 The back cover of this issue advertised the four Golden Press Enterprise Log collections . Writer: George Kashdan Artist: Alden McWilliams Cover artist: George Wilson ?

#50 Jan 1978 The planet of no life Kirk and a young ensign are trapped, facing slow death, while an old nemesis of Kirk's (Gold Key #41, "The Evictors") enjoys their suffering. The ensign agrees to kill Kirk if he is allowed to live. Stardate 19:28:07 This issue was published with 30¢ and 35¢ cover price. Writer: Arnold Drake Artist: Alden McWilliams Cover artist: George Wilson (attributed)

#51 Mar 1978 Destination annihilation Absent-minded Prof. Osric Whipple, an old friend of Kirk's, inadvertently starts, then stops an interplanetary war. Stardate 26:04.4 Mazda spaceship on cover. Writer: George Kashdan Artist: Alden McWilliams Cover artist: George Wilson

#52 May 1978 And a child shall lead them The Enterprise breaks up a black market mining operation on a primitive world led by a child. Stardate 28:11.5 Writer: George Kashdan Artist: Alden McWilliams Cover artist: Luis Dominguez ?

#53 Jul 1978 What fools these mortals be On an uncharted planet, Kirk, Spock and McCoy relive the voyage of Ulysses for the amusement of Zeus and other Greek gods. Stardate 2901.1 Writer: George Kashdan Artist: Alden McWilliams Cover artist: George Wilson

#54 Aug 1978 Sport of knaves Kirk, Spock, and Scotty go undercover to track down stolen endangered birds. Stardate 3004.8 Writer: George Kashdan Artist: Alden McWilliams Cover artist: George Wilson ?

#55 Sep 1978 A world against itself After their brains are altered, Spock and Scotty lead two warring tribes into combat. Stardate 72:35.3 Error on cover "Spock vs. Slott". Writer: Arnold Drake Artist: Alden McWilliams

#56 Oct 1978 No time like the past A deposed dictator escapes and travels back in time via the Guardian of Forever ( The City on the Edge of Forever ). Kirk, Spock, and McCoy must alter history so that Hannibal is defeated by the Romans. Stardate 3275.2 Writer: George Kashdan Artist: Alden McWilliams Cover artist: George Wilson ?

#57 Nov 1978 Spore of the devil Kirk, Scotty and Spock discover an alien directing the development of a medieval world. The alien does not know where he is from. Stardate 19:29:51 Writer: Arnold Drake Artist: Alden McWilliams Cover artist: George Wilson ?

#58 Dec 1978 Brain-damaged planet McCoy must help a planet fend off huge parasites, or its inhabitants will all be driven mad. Stardate 3315.5 Writer: George Kashdan Artist: Alden McWilliams Cover artist: Chuck Liese

#59 Jan 1979 To err is Vulcan Spock makes not one, but two errors. Kirk suspects a plan to discredit Spock and has a plan of his own. Stardate 9126.1 Writer: Arnold Drake Artist: Alden McWilliams Cover artist: Mel Crawford

#60 Feb 1979 The empire man The Enterprise protects a colony under attack by a powerful cyborg. Each time an attack occurs, a beautiful ghost appears, but she can't communicate until she enters Spock's body. Stardate 2314.6 Writer: John Warner Artist: Alden McWilliams Cover artist: Mike Roy or Frank Bolle ?

#61 Mar 1979 Operation con game Harry Mudd's ( Mudd's Women ) dilithium con could ignite a war between the Federation and the Klingon empire. Kirk and Spock transport aboard a Klingon warship while Mudd kidnaps McCoy. Stardate 3504.7 Writer: George Kashdan Artist: Alden McWilliams Cover artist: Mike Roy or Frank Bolle ?

[#62] 1979 not published Trial by fire! The Enterprise responds to a request for help from a corporate energy research platform. A ship testing experimental fuel has exploded, creating a moon-sized self-sustaining fireball that threatens Orgone, a nearby inhabited planet. Kirk, McCoy, two redshirts and Varrik, the platform manager, transport planetside, while Spock and Scotty try to stop the fireball. The pastoral Orgonians are led by Talon, a shaman, who interprets the fireball as a test of faith which must be met by ritual. Unfortunately, there is more to Varrik's involvement in the crisis than anyone is aware of. Stardate 3708.2 John Warner wrote a 22-page script which was apparently intended for publication as issue #62 until Western Publishing cancelled the series. Warner also wrote the script for issue #60. He is better known for his work on the Gold Key Flash Gordon series. He also worked for DC, Marvel, and Warren Publications. The two security guards in this story are named after two of his colleagues, artists John Byrne and Dave Cockrum. Nineteen lettered art pages with very faint pencil breakdowns were completed but never delivered to the scheduled artist, Frank Bolle. Bolle was the cover artist for issues #60 and #61. He also worked on many other Western Publishing projects. The script and lettered art pages have been reproduced in Volume 124 of the Star Trek Graphic Novel Collection . Artist Matt Shults has published his adaptation of Trial By Fire online and I've included his cover art in this list. Check it out! Writer: John Warner Scheduled artist: Frank Bolle Artist: Matt Shults

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Gold Key Comics , part of Whitman Publishing , were the first publishers of Star Trek comics . Their series ran for 61 issues between July 1967 until March 1979 . At least one more issue was planned, titled Trial by Fire! .

From 2004 to 2006 , Titan Books released five volumes of reprints in The Key Collection . In 2014 , IDW remastered many of the stories, producing five high-quality volumes for the Gold Key Archives .

• 1 Main characters
• 2 Recurring characters
• 3 Returning series characters
• 5 Comic creators
• 6 List of comics
• 7 External links

Main characters [ ]

Kirk , Spock , McCoy and the USS Enterprise .

Captain James T. Kirk and Commander Spock appeared in all of the stories. Doctor Leonard McCoy appeared in 49 stories (not in #3, 26, 27, 36, 41, 44, 54, 57). 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. Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu appeared in 35 stories, with stints commanding the ship (#12, 28) and serving on landing party missions (#9, 11, 19, 23, 26). Lieutenant Nyota Uhura appeared in 34 stories and was featured in seven landing parties (#9, 22, 25, 26, 27, 30, and 31). Ensign Pavel Chekov was featured in two stories (#16, 31) and appeared in nine others (#11, 26, 33, 38, 47, 48, 51, 53, 60). Nurse Christine Chapel was featured in three stories (#23, 26, 30) and appeared in five others (#31, 38, 46, 52, 58). Yeoman Janice Rand appeared twice, in #1 and in a one-panel cameo in #24.

Recurring characters [ ]

Security officer Manning appeared in three stories (#21, 26, 31). McCoy’s daughter Barbara McCoy appeared in two stories (#40, 43) as well as senior scientist Doctor Krisp (#19, 27). Four characters recurred in the two stories about " The Evictors " (#41, 50): Sanoora Councilor Inoduku , Nraka Councilor Dvor , Dvor’s daughter Rava and religious leader Zotar .

Returning series characters [ ]

Zephram Cochrane , Nancy Hedford and The Companion appeared (#49), as well as the Guardian of Forever (#56) and Harry Mudd (#61). In additional Gold Key short stories printed only in omnibus publications, Cochrane returned in " From Sputnik to Warp Drive ". T'Pau , T'Pring , Amanda Grayson , and Sarek appeared in " Lt. Commdr. Spock: Psycho-File ". Janet Wallace appeared in " Captain James T. Kirk: Psycho-File ". Cochrane, T'Pau, T'Pring, Amanda and Sarek did not resemble the actors who portrayed them.

Sequels [ ]

• " The Evictors " (#41, 50)
• " Metamorphosis " (#49)
• " Who Mourns for Adonais? " (#53)
• " The City on the Edge of Forever " (#56)
• " I, Mudd " (#61)

Comic creators [ ]

• Gerry Boudreau (2 issues)
• Arnold Drake (22 issues)
• Doug Drexler (2 issues)
• George Kashdan (10 issues)
• Allan Moniz (2 issues)
• John David Warner (5 issues)
• Len Wein (8 issues)
• Dick Wood (8 issues)
• Alberto Giolitti (33 issues)
• Alden McWilliams (22 issues)
• Nevio Zaccara (2 issues)
• George Wilson
• Chuck Liese
• Mel Crawford
• Frank Bolle

List of comics [ ]

External links [ ].

• Curt Danhauser’s Guide to the Gold Key Star Trek Comics
• Gold Key Comics page at the Star Trek Comics Checklist
• Gold Key Comics article at Memory Alpha , the wiki for canon Star Trek .
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Star Trek (Gold Key) #1 – The Planet of No Return! (Review)

The first Star Trek pilot, The Cage , was produced in 1964. To celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, this December we are reviewing the second season of the original Star Trek show. You can check out our first season reviews here . Check back daily for the latest review.

The Star Trek comics published by Gold Key are somewhat infamous additions to the Star Trek canon. The company began publishing comic book tie-ins in July 1967, in the gap between the first and second seasons of the original Star Trek show. They continued to publish those tie-ins until 1978, when the license passed to Marvel. These early comics have become the source of much derision over the years, with fans dismissing them as hollow cash-ins produced by people with little understanding of the franchise itself.

However, recent years have seen something of a reappraisal of these early comic books. Once IDW Publishing secured the rights to produce tie-in Star Trek comic books, they devoted considerable effort to archiving and releasing classic and little-seen material from the franchise’s history. They released the Star Trek newspaper strips in a two-volume set, before turning their attention to the classic Gold Key comic books. It is a very worthwhile attempt to provide fans with a glimpse of oft-overlooked chapters in the franchise’s history.

Plant life…

The Gold Key Star Trek comics are messy. A lot of the criticisms hold true. There are all manner of continuity errors in the production of the comic. Artist Alberto Giolitti takes quite some time to figure out what Scotty looks like, and the colourists take a bit of time to figure out what uniforms various cast members should be wearing. The writing is similarly clunky, with characters sounding a little out of sort as the basic plot details seem to stand at odds with still-relatively-small Star Trek canon had been established by the closing credit of Operation — Annihilate!

And yet, despite all these considerable flaws, these comics do make for an interesting time capsule. They don’t feel quite like Star Trek so much as an impression of what Star Trek would look described to somebody who has never seen it, filtered through the lense of fifties and sixties science-fiction comics. The early issues feel like three blind men describing an elephant, and it is glorious.

Branching out…

To be fair, the Gold Key comics were produced in a time before home video was common. It was not as if the studio could ship out copies of first season episodes to help the writers and artists make sense of the series. The comic was probably not a high-enough priority to merit attentive oversight from anybody directly involved in the production, and was likely produced on too tight a schedule to allow the writers to browse a season-worth of scripts. Artists did not visit the sets or meet the actors; they worked from photographs.

So there are quite a few incongruous elements at play here. The Enterprise, we are told, is “carrying out exploration mission through Galaxy Alpha.” This seems rather surreal, given how big a deal leaving our own galaxy was in  Where No Man Has Gone Before . Kirk and his away team beam down to the surface of an alien planet from “the teleportation chamber!” Leonard McCoy wears yellow and apparently straps guinea pigs to the outside of the ship, because mankind is still at the stage where it wonders what happens when you put animals in space.

Forbidden planet…

These are all significant continuity issues, and any Star Trek fan reading the Gold Key comics will feel like they have wandered into the uncanny valley. It looks and sounds just enough like Star Trek that the differences are vaguely unsettling. However, those differences make more sense in context. It seems like the writers at Gold Key were writing Star Trek in the style of an old fifties or sixties science-fiction adventure. Forbidden Planet is frequently cited as an influence on Gene Roddenberry, and the Gold Key comics feel half-way between the two.

This is most obvious in the story and design of the first story, Planet of No Return . The story has a decidedly pulpy title and a wonderfully trashy opening splash page. The Enterprise, wandering through the stars, discovers a planet of sentient plant creatures that send spores through space as a means of colonisation. Kirk and his landing party beam down, wearing shiny grey uniforms that look like they were stolen from the MGM lot after shooting wrapped. The planet is even drawn in the style of a studio back lot, with lots of awkwardly-shaped rocks and wide open spaces.

A rocky adventure…

The crew of the Enterprise are not characters in their own right so much as generic science-fiction explorers. Characters are prone to surreal comic book exclamations like “great hannah!” or “s-suffering solar showers!” None of these characters seem to have any personality traits beyond square-jawed heroism, with the female member of the party ending up abducted by these strange alien creatures so that Kirk can mount a heroic rescue mission against all odds – showcasing the strength of the Enterprise.

To be fair to the staff working on the Gold Key comics, it is not as if the first season of Star Trek had particularly tight internal continuity from which they could work. Uniform designs were prone to change, characters would move between departments, the history of the universe would change from one episode to the next. The Federation and Starfleet did not exist until about half-way through the run. Early episodes seemed to suggest that Vulcan had been conquered, rather than a willing member of an interstellar coalition.

Seeds of dissent…

Planet of No Return feels like a victim of some of these shifts. Most obviously, the story features Janice Rand as a central character – reflecting early plans to have the character as a member of the core ensemble. Indeed, the illustrations of Rand even feature a red hairnet that she wears over her distinctive bee-hive hairdo. Of course, by this point in the show’s run, Janice Rand had been written out. She had not appeared in an episode since midway through the first season, serving as a suggestion that perhaps not all the continuity issues were down to Gold Key themselves.

In fact, the most odd moment in Planet of No Return has nothing to do with continuity. Once Kirk and his team beam back to the Enterprise, Kirk is ready to leave orbit. Spock stops him. Arguing that the space spores represent a real and immediate threat to galactic civilisation, Spock advises Kirk, “We must orbit that hideous little globe until all foliage upon it is decimated by our laser beams!” In essence, the first issue of the Gold Key Star Trek tie-in comic ends with our heroes committing genocide, wiping out an entire species with no attempt at negotiation or reason.

Meanwhile, back on the Enterprise…

In a way, this serves to draw a line between Star Trek and the types of pulpy science-fiction stories that came before it. To be fair, Star Trek has on occasion featured Kirk resorting to genocide – killing the last creature of its kind in The Man Trap , destroying a society of androids in What Are Little Girls Made Of? and wiping out the invaders in Operation — Annihilate! To be entirely honest, Star Trek did have to deal with issues of colonialism and imperialism, and the show didn’t always come out looking particularly good.

However, it is the casual nature of the brutality that is so striking in Planet of No Return . Much is made of the “intelligent society” on the planet, but they are different from Kirk and his crew – so they can be casually exterminated in two panels at the end of the story. In essence, that final page clearly delineates between the legacy of fifties and sixties science-fiction and what Star Trek would eventually become. The serious would not always succeed at being something more optimistic and hopeful, but it certainly tried.

Explosive action…

The fact that this off-hand ending is so jarring half-a-century later helps to illustrate just how far Star Trek moved from the baseline of pulp science-fiction. Fans and critics often overlook how casually racist or sexist or imperialist the series could be, but Star Trek did try to get past some of the attitudes and outlooks that seemed almost baked into Golden Age science-fiction – the idea that mankind had dominion over the entire universe, and that the alien primarily existed to be met and destroyed.

To be fair to Gold Key, the comics would improve over the next couple of years, as the writers and artists became more familiar with the show they were adapting. However, these early comics serve as an effective illustration of just what made  Star Trek different from the wealth of other genre material around it.

You might be interested in our other reviews from the second season of the classic Star Trek :

• Supplemental: (Gold Key) #1 – The Planet of No Return!
• Supplemental: (Marvel Comics, 1980) #4-5 – The Haunting of Thallus!/The Haunting of the Enterprise!
• Metamorphosis
• Friday’s Child
• Who Mourns for Adonais?
• Supplemental: Spock’s World by Diane Duane
• Supplemental: New Visions #3 – Cry Vengeance
• Wolf in the Fold
• The Changeling
• Supplemental: (DC Comics, 1984) #43-45 – The Return of the Serpent!
• Supplemental: (IDW, 2009) #13 – The Red Shirt’s Tale
• Supplemental: Deep Space Nine – Crossover
• Supplemental: New Visions #1 – The Mirror, Cracked
• Supplemental: (DC Comics, 1984) #9-16 – New Frontiers (The Mirror Universe Saga)
• Supplemental: Mirror Images
• Supplemental: Mirror Universe – The Sorrows of Empire by David Mack
• Supplemental: (IDW, 2009) #15-16 – Mirrored
• The Deadly Years
• Supplemental: (Gold Key) #61 – Operation Con Game
• Supplemental: (DC Comics, 1984) #39-40 – The Return of Mudd
• Supplemental: The Galactic Whirlpool by David Gerrold
• Supplemental: Alien Spotlight – Tribbles
• Bread and Circuses
• Journey to Babel
• A Private Little War
• The Gamesters of Triskelion
• The Immunity Syndrome
• A Piece of the Action
• By Any Other Name
• Return to Tomorrow
• Patterns of Force
• The Ultimate Computer
• The Omega Glory
• Supplemental: Assignment: Eternity by Greg Cox
• Supplemental: (DC Comics, 1989) #49-50 – The Peacekeepers
• Supplemental: (IDW, 2008) Assignment: Earth

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I’ve never read any of these old Star Trek comic books, but I’d certainly heard of them. Going by your descriptions and the panels that you scanned in for this post, I have to agree with your assessment. It seems very likely that the writers & artists who were assigned to this adaptation were probably provided with a handful of production stills, a little bit in the way of paperwork loosly detailing the characters & series’ premise, and probably not much else.

This reminds me of interviews with artists who worked at Charlton Comics in the 1970s. It was virtually impossible to get any even halfway-decent reference material from studios when they were doing adaptations of TV shows such as The Six Million Dollar Man and Space 1999. Often they ended up with were photocopies of black & white production stills, which were almost totally indecipherable. Joe Staton describes how he and his wife had to actually watch the pilot episode of The Six Million Dollar Man on television and take photos of the TV screen in order for him to get any sort of reference that was at all useful.

In any case, judging these Star Trek comic books by those standards, the artwork at least looks quite good. As far as the writing goes, back in those days I doubt anyone at Paramount gave much of a glance at these comic books to guarantee accuracy.

There are all sorts of stories about these comics. For example, headshots of James Doohan were not included in the original documentation, so Scotty spends the first run of issues looking rather… unScotty-like. Or that the powers at the studio only started paying attention to the comics when fans wrote letters complaining about it.

I am sympathetic to the circumstances of production, and I think the Gold Key comics are a fascinating Chinese Whispers version of the franchise, a bunch of people crafting stories based on what they’ve been told of the source material.

Good on you for giving this thing a spirited defense and describing the behind-the-scenes morass on the early days of these comics. I have the old DVD-ROM containing the entire Gold Key run (plus the Marvel and DC output), but didn’t get more than a few issues into these and moving onto better stuff. While the comic was a bit jarring for me, I appreciate your putting it in the proper historical perspective!

I do think the Godl Key comics get a bit of a bad wrap. They are very pulpy sci-fi comics, even if they emphasise the type of science-fiction away from which Star Trek would transition. I don’t think they are unsung gems, but they are definitely worth a look for fans interested in the grey area between fifties and sixties sci-fi.

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Gold Key Comics Price Guide

Value of Gold Key Comics

Gold Key was created in 1962 as a spin-off from Dell in an attempt to publish more children's titles. They created many of the more popular TV show tie-in books during the 1960s.

It's important to note that the company's file copies have been sold on the market, flooding collectors with super high-grade material.

This explains why most Gold Key issues are not as valuable as you might expect, given their age.

Where is the Issue #?

Confusingly, Gold Key issues don't have numbers on their covers. They often have a code under the logo (see image on right).

The issue # appears in the fine print inside, which means you have to open the book to identify which one you have.

Which are the Top 10 Most Valuable Gold Key Comics?

• Star Trek #1 (1967), record sale $40,500
• Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom #1 (1962) $7,500
• Magnus Robot Fighter #1 (1962) $3,600
• Phantom #1 (1962) $2,835
• Space Ghost #2 (1967) $2,750
• Avengers #1 (1967) $2,500
• Jonny Quest #1 (1964) $2,500
• Green Hornet #1 (1967) $2,150
• Doc Savage #1 (1966) $1,485
• Uncle Scrooge #40 (1963) $1,435

Which Gold Key Comics are valuable?

Below are the most valuable comic books published by Gold Key.

We also provide detailed  issue-by-issue breakdowns  for the more important Gold Key series. Over time, we'll add more of these detailed articles.

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Important Gold Key Comics, With Values

Record sales are the world-record price for each issue. Your copy, if you own one, is usually not going to be worth as much.

Minimum values are what you can expect to receive for a poor to average, but complete copy.

Addams Family #1 (1974)

Record Sale: $500 Minimum Value: $5

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Astro Boy #1 (1965)

Record Sale: $920 Minimum Value: $20

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Atom Ant #1 (1966)

Record Sale: $470 Minimum Value: $5

Avengers #1 (1968) Based on British TV series

Record Sale: $2,500 Minimum Value: $10

Battle of the Planets #1 (1979)

Record Sale: $610 Minimum Value: $5

Beep Beep the Road Runner #1 (1966)

Record Sale: $200 Minimum Value: $1

Best of Donald Duck (1965)

Record Sale: $480 Minimum Value: $5

Boris Karloff Thriller #1 (1962)

Record Sale: $1,000 Minimum Value: $10

Bullwinkle #1 (1962)

Record Sale: $820 Minimum Value: $5

Dark Shadows #1 (1969)

Record Sale: $570 Minimum Value: $1

Deputy Dawg #1 (1965)

Record Sale: $265 Minimum Value: $1

Doc Savage #1 (1966)

Record Sale: $1,485 Minimum Value: $5

Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom #1 (1962)

Record Sale: $7,500 Minimum Value: $20

Flash Gordon #1 (1965)

Record Sale: $575 Minimum Value: $10

Flintstones #7 (1962) 1st Gold Key issue in series

Record Sale: $190 Minimum Value: $1

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Fractured Fairy Tales #1 (1962) From Bullwinkle and Rocky TV show

Record Sale: $600 Minimum Value: $5

Frankenstein, Jr. #1 (1967)

Record Sale: $550 Minimum Value: $5

Girl from U.N.C.L.E. #1 (1967)

Record Sale: $350 Minimum Value: $1

Gomer Pyle #1 (1966)

Record Sale: $390 Minimum Value: $1

Green Hornet #1 (1967)

Record Sale: $2,150 Minimum Value: $5

Gunsmoke #1 (1969)

Hanna-Barbera Super TV Heroes #1 (1968)

Record Sale: $930 Minimum Value: $5

Happy Days #1 (1979)

Record Sale: $450 Minimum Value: $5

Huey, Dewey and Louie Junior Woodchucks #1 (1966)

Record Sale: $150 Minimum Value: $1

The Invaders #1 (1967)

Record Sale: $400 Minimum Value: $1

I Spy #1 (1966)

Record Sale: $730 Minimum Value: $5

John Carter of Mars #1 (1964)

Record Sale: $625 Minimum Value: $5

Jonny Quest #1 (1964)

Record Sale: $2,500 Minimum Value: $20

Korak, Son of Tarzan #1 (1964)

Record Sale: $210 Minimum Value: $1

Laurel and Hardy #1 (1967)

Record Sale: $345 Minimum Value: $1

Lone Ranger #1 (1964)

Record Sale: $270 Minimum Value: $1

The Lucy Show #1 (1963)

Record Sale: $280 Minimum Value: $1

Magilla Gorilla #1 (1964)

Record Sale: $850 Minimum Value: $10

Magnus Robot Fighter #1 (1963) One of the most famous Gold Key Comics

Record Sale: $3,600 Minimum Value: $35

Man from U.N.C.L.E. #1 (1965)

Record Sale: $1,300 Minimum Value: $10

The Munsters #1 (1965)

Record Sale: $900 Minimum Value: $5

My Favorite Martian #1 (1964)

Record Sale: $1,000 Minimum Value: $5

Peanuts #1 (1962)

Record Sale: $1,025 Minimum Value: $25

Phantom #1 (1962)

Record Sale: $2,865 Minimum Value: $40

Pink Panther #1 (1971)

Record Sale: $185 Minimum Value: $1

Rawhide #1 (1962)

Record Sale: $400 Minimum Value: $5

Rocky and his Fiendish Friends #1 (1962)

Secret Agent #1 (1966)

Record Sale: $370 Minimum Value: $5

Secret Squirrel #1 (1966)

Record Sale: $430 Minimum Value: $5

Space Family Robinson Lost in Space #1 (1962)

Space Ghost #1 (1967)

Record Sale: $2,750 Minimum Value: $10

Star Trek #1 (1967) The #1 most valuable of all Gold Key Comics

Record Sale: $40,500 Minimum Value: $75

Supercar #1 (1962)

Record Sale: $460 Minimum Value: $10

Total War #1 (1966) Becomes MARS Patrol from #3

Record Sale: $250 Minimum Value: $1

Turok, Son of Stone #30 (1962), Gold Key Comics Was published by Dell Comics prior to this issue

Tweety and Sylvester #1 (1963)

Record Sale: $150 Minimum Value: $5

Twilight Zone #1 (1962)

Record Sale: $1,000 Minimum Value: $15

UFO Flying Saucers #1 (1968)

Record Sale: $300 Minimum Value: $5

Uncle Scrooge #40 (1963) Published by Dell #1-39

Record Sale: $1,435 Minimum Value: $20

Underdog #1 (1970)

Record Sale: $900 Minimum Value: $1

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Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #264 (1962) Previous issues published by Dell

Record Sale: $130 Minimum Value: $1

Winnie the Pooh #1 (1977)

Yakky Doodle and Chopper #1 (1962)

Record Sale: $275 Minimum Value: $1

Yogi Bear #10 (1962), Gold Key Comics Previously published by Dell

Record Sale: $100 Minimum Value: $1

Zorro #1 (1966)

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Star Trek Gold Key Archives HC (2014 IDW) comic books

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Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Star Trek (1967-1979 Gold Key) #1-6. Introduction by Tony Isabella. Written by Dick Wood. Art by Nevio Zeccara and Alberto Giolitti. Cover by Michael Stribling. Presenting the first comic book adventures of the U.S.S. Enterprise and her crew! Fully re-mastered and with a new throwback cover! Hardcover, 168 pages, full color. Cover price $29.99.

Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. Collects Star Trek (1967-1979 Gold Key) #1-6. Introduction by Tony Isabella. Written by Dick Wood. Art by Nevio Zeccara and Alberto Giolitti. Cover by Michael Stribling. Presenting the first comic book adventures of the U.S.S. Enterprise and her crew! Fully re-mastered and with a new throwback cover! Hardcover, 168 pages, full color. Cover price $29.99.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. Collects Star Trek (1967-1979 Gold Key) #7-12. Written by Len Wein. Art by Alberto Giolitti. Cover by Michael Stribling. Boldly going... where it all started! Presenting the first comic book adventures of the U.S.S. Enterprise and her crew! Fully re-mastered with new colors, this volume includesstories such as "The Voodoo Planet," "The Legacy of Lazarus," "The Brain Shocker," and more. Hardcover, 168 pages, full color. Cover price $29.99.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. Collects Star Trek (1967-1979 Gold Key) #13-18. Written by Len Wein. Art by Alberto Giolitti. Cover by Michael Stribling. Boldly going... where it all started! Presenting the first comic book adventures of the U.S.S. Enterprise and her crew! Fully re-mastered with new colors, including stories such as "Dark Traveler," "The Enterprise Mutiny," "The Hijacked Planet," and more. Hardcover, 160 pages, full color. Cover price $29.99.

Volume 4 - 1st printing. Collects Star Trek (1967-1979 Gold Key) #19-24. Written by Arnold Drake. art by Alberto Giolitti and Sal Trapani. Cover by Michael Stribling. Boldly going... where it all started! Presenting the first comic book adventures of the U.S.S. Enterprise and her crew! Fully remastered with new colors, volume 4 includes the stories "The Haunted Asteroid," "A World Gone Mad," "The Mummies of Heitus VII," "Siege in Superspace," "Child's Play," and "The Trial of Captain Kirk." Hardcover, 160 pages, full color. Cover price $29.99.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. Collects Star Trek (1967-1979 Gold Key) #25-28 and 30-31 (#29 was a reprint of #1). Written by Arnold Drake, John David Warner, George Kashdan and Allan Moniz. Art by Alberto Giolitti and Alden McWilliams. Cover by Michael Stribling. Boldly going... where it all started! Presenting the first comic book adventures of the U.S.S. Enterprise and her crew! Fully remastered with new colors, volume 5 collects includes stories "Dwarf Planet," "The Perfect Dream," "Ice Journey," "The Mimicking Menace," "Death of a Star," and "The Final Truth." Hardcover, 160 pages, full color. Cover price $29.99.

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Star Trek: Gold Key Archives #1

Star Trek: Gold Key Archives » Star Trek: Gold Key Archives #1 - Volume 1 released by IDW Publishing on March 2014.

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Presenting the first comic book adventures of the U.S.S. Enterprise and her crew! Fully re-mastered and with a new throwback cover, Star Trek Gold Key Archives, Vol. 1 collects issues #1–6.

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