In the UK, an original Star Trek comic strip started in Joe 90 Top Secret comic in 1969, and continued in TV 21 & Joe 90, before spending some time in Valiant and TV21.
Some might forget that a comic strip re-using strips from the US Gold Key comics could be found for a while printed in black & white in The Mighty TV Comic.
The first was devoted to Tom Baker’ Doctor Who, and reprinted a strip from an earlier Jon Pertwee Summer Special strip, Doomcloud, which altered Pertwee’s likeness to look like Baker’s.
The front cover was drawn by Jon Canning.
The second was devoted to Star Trek, and reprinted a truncated version of a Gold Key Star Trek strip, The Perfect Dream, from 1974.
The front cover was a redrawn version by John Canning of the original Gold Key comic.
Interesting! I've never heard of 'Mighty Midget' comics - apparently these were printed in a smaller format than the mainstream comics?
ReplyDeleteThey were the same size but the page count was a lot less, Ed, as they were given away as free gifts. The gimmick of The Mighty TV Comic was it actually folded out to twice it's size.
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