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I think the sky Enterprise is used on the lunchbox
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i have some of them still. and i have the 1st four volumes of the TPB. read them many times as a kidComment
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That's the one! Glad to see I wasn't the only one that noticed that particular picture.
I'm always amazed at the info available from other members here. I never realized that, but that's pretty cool to know.What was really a mounting pipe on the secondary hull would become some sort of beam emiter in the comics.Comment
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Heck, the cover of #35 shown at the top is "beaker Spock". #35 is actually reprint of a much earlier issue. In the reprint, they omited one page of story in favor of advertising and they also tuned up the color. In the early issues, it seemed only Spock had a blue shirt and the rest had greenish yellow. Kirk got a more yellowish hue in the reprint and McCoy got the proper blue.
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My Star Trek collection buddy bought the majority of his collection of these at a Dixie Trek convention one year. He has since completed all his sets. Pretty cool set of comics for sure.sigpic WANTED: Boxed, Carded and Kresge Carded WGSHComment
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>The rocket trails coming from the Enterprise in the early comics were probably inspired by the NBC promo art later used on the James Blish book
AAAHHH!!!! The shuttle bay is on fire!!!
I still love the Gold Key ones. There's something delightfully decadent about how they play with continuity.... not quite breaking it (since a lot of the background of the series hadn't gelled yet) but taking it to strange, Gold Key-esque places. I liked the one where you find out all of Vulcan's emotions are trapped in a series of clay vases.
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I had quite a few issues of Gold Key ST as a kid, including the two collected "Dynabrite" editions Whitman put out.
Also had a bunch of Gold Key BOTP and Buck Rogers. Good memories of those books.PUNY HUMANS!Comment
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The brits reprinted the Gold Key stuff forever! I almost bought an annual that had Khan on the cover, inside was mouldy old reprints.Places to find PlaidStallions online: https://linktr.ee/Plaidstallions
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I never owned or even saw any of the individual issues of this series when I was a kid. The first Star Trek Gold Key I got as a kid was Time Bomb Dynabrite at a Longs Drugs, and a little later volume 2 of the Enterpise Logs at a Pick-N'-Save. They had tons of all 4 volumes, I wanted them all but had to pick one so I got the one with Spock on the cover (my favorite at the time, I was under the misconception that all the comics in that volume would be devoted to Spock). Later in the 80's when my mom took me to the comic book store for the first time, I picked up the 1986 Annual.
I know these comics get razzed all the time for the inaccuracies, and yeah the writing isn't always the best, but I love these comics because they to me the capture how I felt about Star Trek at the time - that anything in the Trek universe was possible. Today we have a very set idea of what "can" and "can't" be in the original Star Trek universe. But back them, in my childs imagination, any of these stories could just as easily been an episode of the the series.
Not to mention they have beautiful painted covers (I especially like the ones in the teens and 20's) and the artwork general was alot better than most Gold Key/Whitman series at the time.Comment
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I know exactly which photo you are talking about. It looks like Kirk is going to start crooning Lucy in the Sky....Also on the back cover of the first issue is a publicity picture of Kirk holding a futuristic microphone (can't find an example of it on the web). Because of that photo, many in the comic are seen holding a wired mic when communicating with the landing party.
Speaking of which the "sky" Enterprise picture is the lost to history 3 foot model of the ship. It has the flatter "bulb" at the bottom of the saucer which is used in many illustrations for book covers, etc.
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Some misc. ships and space stations in early issues look like they they were inspired by the 2001 one sheet art
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) 20978 - Movie Art
and the space station in A Bomb In Time is definataly from a picture of the 2001 space station.
In one issue #3 I think, they have these twin curved buildings as part of an alien city that I once saw a picture of in real life. But I can't track down what real twin buildings it is based on.Comment
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