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Post by tarkintino on Sept 1, 2021 21:50:38 GMT -5
Star Trek received the parody treatment while it was first-run on NBC. MAD #115 produced the first with "Star Blecch" (December, 1967). Art by Mort Drucker & written by Dick De Bartolo. ...and for Trek fans, it was great to see publicity photos of William Shatner & Leonard Nimoy on the set, reading the very issue of MAD featuring their series - By 1976, Star Trek was a major pop cultural phenomenon, and among the near-endless publications about the series released in that year, MAD placed their own spin on how the series might be exploited in "Keep on Trekin' - The MAD Star Trek Musical" from MAD #186 (October, 1976). Art by Mort Drucker, written by Frank Jacobs with a Jack Rickard cover. Almost every satire magazine tried their hand at sending up Star Trek, but the early MAD work seen here was head and shoulders above the rest.
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Post by tonebone on Sept 2, 2021 7:59:25 GMT -5
The Star Trek newspaper strip was pretty good... I have the two volumes from IDW and found it very enjoyable. The strip starts right after The Motion Picture, being produced by Thomas Warkinton, and flows nicely, with nice crisp art, with fantastic likenesses of the characters/actors and the ships. The strip continues for years, with various writers and artists who will be familiar to may comics fans... such as Gerry Conway and Alfredo Alcala And, then, well into the Wrath of Khan era, the artists change more quickly, and some are dizzyingly terrible. I can't believe Paramount cared so little for their IP at this point that they let this pass. The artist is Bob Myers... And this is one of the good examples.. there are many worse ones. Plus, extra points taken off for the fact that Scotty is missing a finger on his right hand, and the artist clearly missed that.
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Post by tonebone on Sept 2, 2021 8:07:19 GMT -5
Star Trek received the parody treatment while it was first-run on NBC. MAD #115 produced the first with "Star Blecch" (December, 1967). Art by Mort Drucker & written by Dick De Bartolo. ...and for Trek fans, it was great to see publicity photos of William Shatner & Leonard Nimoy on the set, reading the very issue of MAD featuring their series - By 1976, Star Trek was a major pop cultural phenomenon, and among the near-endless publications about the series released in that year, MAD placed their own spin on how the series might be exploited in "Keep on Trekin' - The MAD Star Trek Musical" from MAD #186 (October, 1976). Art by Mort Drucker, written by Frank Jacobs with a Jack Rickard cover. Almost every satire magazine tried their hand at sending up Star Trek, but the early MAD work seen here was head and shoulders above the rest. These parodies are incredibly awesome! The image of Kirk's head attached to his hips has always stuck with me. I find it funny, however, that the usually infallible Mort Drucker always seemed to have a little difficulty in capturing Shatner's likeness.
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Post by profh0011 on Sept 2, 2021 9:52:01 GMT -5
I find it interestng that Mort Drucker in the mid-70s showed William Shatner putting on weight so he looked like he did in the 90s and beyond.
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Post by profh0011 on Sept 2, 2021 9:59:19 GMT -5
Thanks for answering the question about the newspaper strips. I guess the PHILADELPHIA BULLETIN actually did drop the strip. What's funny is, sometime earlier, they dropped BUCK ROGERS, which had absolutely STUNNING art by GRAY MORROW, arguably the best artist to ever, EVER draw BR in its entire history. I wrote to complain. And the features editor wrote back. I wish I could post that letter, or quote it exactly, but the guy actually listed 3 "reasons" why they dropped BR. One was, " We feel Star Trek is better". That may have been only weeks before Wakentin left. The 2nd was, " We feel it's in POOR TASTE". Let me translate that. Philadelphia is a very PURITANICAL city, extremely stuck-up, and Gray Morrow's BUCK ROGERS art had lots of HOT, SEXY WOMEN in skin-tight, revealing outfits. I can't remember the 3rd reason. but I'm sure it was as stupid as the other two. Suffice to say, STAR TREK switched artists twice, the BULLETIN dropped it a few weeks into the 3rd artist's run, and-- I would swear-- less than a year later, the BULLETIN went BELLY-UP. I wasn't surprised, given their editorial attitude. The ONLY REASON I was buying the paper 7 days a week, was for those comics! The INQUIRER, their chief competitor, for several months, picked up MOST of the BULLETIN's comics, givng them a HUGE comics section. But before too long, they began to whittle it down, and before you knew it, had gotten it down pretty much to its previous number of strips.
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Post by profh0011 on Sept 2, 2021 10:05:47 GMT -5
I may be wrong, but I believe there were 2 completely-different BUCK ROGERS comics continuities going at the same time back then. the Gold Key / Western comic-books followed (more or less) the TV show, but the revived newspaper strip followed the continuity of the ORIGINAL newspaper strip, which had ended a decade earlier. This is obvious just when you look at Kane, Ardala & Dr. Huer.
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Post by tarkintino on Sept 2, 2021 17:59:29 GMT -5
These parodies are incredibly awesome! The image of Kirk's head attached to his hips has always stuck with me. Agreed. MAD was in its long-running heyday in that period, and their writers were so adept at zeroing in on the fine details of all things TV & movie like no other satire magazine. The Shatner likeness matter is one that's troubled comic artists and toy sculptors for decades; of the endless amount of comic panels and toys featuring Shatner since 1966, only a very small number ever produced an accurate likeness. Drucker illustrates a pretty good Shatner, but in the 1967 work, I see he was using some recognizable publicity stills as his source, so he was more or less winging the illustrations not based on the photos. Still, Drucker was a master artist who rarely missed the mark with his caricatures.
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Post by coinilius on Sept 2, 2021 21:17:12 GMT -5
Star Trek received the parody treatment while it was first-run on NBC. MAD #115 produced the first with "Star Blecch" (December, 1967). Art by Mort Drucker & written by Dick De Bartolo. ...and for Trek fans, it was great to see publicity photos of William Shatner & Leonard Nimoy on the set, reading the very issue of MAD featuring their series - By 1976, Star Trek was a major pop cultural phenomenon, and among the near-endless publications about the series released in that year, MAD placed their own spin on how the series might be exploited in "Keep on Trekin' - The MAD Star Trek Musical" from MAD #186 (October, 1976). Art by Mort Drucker, written by Frank Jacobs with a Jack Rickard cover. Almost every satire magazine tried their hand at sending up Star Trek, but the early MAD work seen here was head and shoulders above the rest. I’ve got a MAD special from when I was a kid that collected all the Star Trek parodies they had done (up to Undiscovered Country, which unfortunately doesn’t have Mort Drucker art) - it’s a great collection and I’m pretty sure they have done subsequent collections with later parodies as well
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Post by tonebone on Sept 3, 2021 8:01:16 GMT -5
I’ve got a MAD special from when I was a kid that collected all the Star Trek parodies they had done (up to Undiscovered Country, which unfortunately doesn’t have Mort Drucker art) - it’s a great collection and I’m pretty sure they have done subsequent collections with later parodies as well I need to find this, now!
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Post by brutalis on Sept 3, 2021 23:45:29 GMT -5
My very 1st exposure to Star Trek comics was coming upon the collected Gold Key of Star Trek: the Enterprise Log book #2 with the giant Spock face splitting into multi rainbow facets. I found this treasure at our local K-Mart and that is all I can truly remember of it. I carried this bad boy with me during family car trips over the weekends to read while visiting our relatives. It received a lot of usage and eventually it " disappeared" and to this day I believe my cousin "borrowed/stole" it when his family visited and stayed with us one weekend.
I can remember reading it often, but the stories were so mundane and unmemorable. I can say the book printed issues 9-17, but that's only because I looked it up on the internet. I remember the very cheap paper turned yellow quickly and you had to handle it with love and attention or turning the pages would simply tear in your hands. The artwork was ok but lacking real depth or action like my Marvel comics, but that was no big deal to me. It was STAR TREK. That is all that mattered to me.
It looked enough like and had the more or less cerebral science-fiction tone of my beloved television series. Visually the 3 leads of Kirk, Spock and McCoy were fairly recognizable and the comic followed along the series traditions with occasionally throwing in crew to the stories. What more does a child need to be happy than that?
That Log Book was my only Gold Key Star Trek as those issues were impossible to find in the day. Once the LCS came in the 1980's you might see an occasional copy for sale but it would be priced way beyond a price I was willing to pay. So many years passed and I may see an article or panels here and there in magazines but I wasn't finding any affordable used issues.
Almost like time travelling in Trek, jump ahead to 2008 and there I find on Amazon my dream come true. A DVD-ROM for computer's with TONS of Trek. FINALLY I was able for enjoying ALL those glorious Gold Key Trek issues. What a treat. Child me may be less than thrilled at what I saw as a mediocre comic book, but adult me was enthralled in exploring the Final Frontier. The comic has awkward moments in the beginning from both writers/artists unfamiliar with Star Trek yet overall it comes together nicely as the issues continue to evolve into a hybrid of entertaining Trek.
Now I have these downloaded (or uploaded? I can never figure out the difference) on my Amazon Kindle and personal Laptop. With a few clicks, I am transported (beam me up Scotty) to a world of wonder in comic book form any time I desire. Since that 2008 purchase I have read these Gold Key issues at least 5 times in full and know I will be reading them yet again. They are one and done stories which makes for easy and quick reading as a go to anytime.
Count me as a junior member of the crew and a genuine fan of what Gold Key delivered in comic book.
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 6, 2021 19:13:09 GMT -5
Ha! I totally got away with mixing Peter David with Peter Davison, on page 1. Now that I've edited it, no one will know!
MWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 6, 2021 19:14:00 GMT -5
Aw, poop!
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Post by spoon on Sept 6, 2021 21:20:23 GMT -5
I started rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generation from the beginning a bit more than a month ago, and I'm early into season 3. So now I'm interesting in what the ST:TNG comics are like. Any recommendations?
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Post by brutalis on Sept 9, 2021 21:00:39 GMT -5
I started rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generation from the beginning a bit more than a month ago, and I'm early into season 3. So now I'm interesting in what the ST:TNG comics are like. Any recommendations? Difficult decision. The 1st year of issues by Michael Jan Friedman writing and Pablo Marco's doing pencils/inks have an odd kind of wonkiness to them. Both story/art are all a growth in process for both that are mostly fine but nothing spectacular. As the series goes along Friedman begins to find his rhythm and voice for the characters. Pablo is rather off on the cast except when he is utilizing reference photo's for full facial shots. Pablo and the comic does get much better with other artists as penciller's here and there in the run. Towards issue 17 things start to pick all around and feels more like Next Gen through to the end with issue 80. And ANY of the Jerome Moore covers are extremely stunning and far better than ANY of the movie posters.
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Post by Confessor on Sept 10, 2021 3:12:03 GMT -5
Star Trek received the parody treatment while it was first-run on NBC. MAD #115 produced the first with "Star Blecch" (December, 1967). Art by Mort Drucker & written by Dick De Bartolo. ...and for Trek fans, it was great to see publicity photos of William Shatner & Leonard Nimoy on the set, reading the very issue of MAD featuring their series - By 1976, Star Trek was a major pop cultural phenomenon, and among the near-endless publications about the series released in that year, MAD placed their own spin on how the series might be exploited in "Keep on Trekin' - The MAD Star Trek Musical" from MAD #186 (October, 1976). Art by Mort Drucker, written by Frank Jacobs with a Jack Rickard cover. Almost every satire magazine tried their hand at sending up Star Trek, but the early MAD work seen here was head and shoulders above the rest. I’ve got a MAD special from when I was a kid that collected all the Star Trek parodies they had done (up to Undiscovered Country, which unfortunately doesn’t have Mort Drucker art) - it’s a great collection and I’m pretty sure they have done subsequent collections with later parodies as well Yeah, I had that Star Trek MAD Special too. Came out in the late 80s or very early 90s, if memory serves. MAD's movie satires were almost always excellent, and the ST ones were no exception.
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