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GUEST BLOG: Classic British Trek Comic Strips Coming Soon

GUEST BLOG: Classic British Trek Comic Strips Coming Soon


Ask typical Star Trek fans which companies have produced Trek comics, and it's a good bet the first publishers mentioned will be Gold Key, Marvel, DC Comics, and the current license-holder, IDW. Savvy fans might recall the brief WildStorm run and Tokyopop's manga digests, while others, thanks to reprint books from IDW's Library of American Comics (LOAC), might bring up the L.A. Times newspaper strips or the McDonalds Happy Meals. But a lot of fans—particularly those outside the United Kingdom—will completely overlook a group of publishers that produced a sizable chunk of Trek lore way back when. Thankfully, LOAC has come through once again.



Trek
Joe 90: Top Secret
Joe 90
Star Trek
Joe 90
TV21
TV21 & Joe 90
TV21
Valiant
Valiant and TV21
Star Trek


Joe 90
TV21
Valiant Summer Special
TV Comic
Radio Times
TV Guide
Trek
Star Trek


Joe 90
TV21
TV21
Valiant






Star Trek
Star Trek

The stories are a bit loopy, but they're equally fun—and for more than 40 years, they've remained unavailable to the majority of collectors. Since the strips were published only in the United Kingdom and have never been reprinted other than a few days' worth appearing in vintage fanzines like Trek, T-Negative, The Monster Times and the Star Trek Souvenir Book, they've been the Holy Grail of Trek comics, available only as low-resolution scans shared online among fans.


L.A. Times
L.A. Times
Star Trek: The Newspaper Comics, Volumes 1 and 2


Radio Times


Star Trek: The Classic UK Comics—The Complete Series, Volume One (1969-1970),
Joe 90
TV21
L.A. Times
Star Trek





Rich Handley is the author and editor of numerous science fiction reference books and the editor of Hasslein Books (hassleinbooks.com). He has contributed to each of IDW's
comic strip reprint books, Sequart's
anthology, S
and
magazines, and GIT Corp's
. He is not afraid to admit that seeing the U.K. strips reprinted at last brings a tear to his eye.