Showing posts with label Gold Key Comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gold Key Comics. Show all posts

09 April 2015

NOT the rabbit you think in " Desert Dawn "

Written by  
Robert Snedigar
Art by 
Saul Kessler











from Land of the Lost Comics #1 (July-August 1946)





08 November 2014

Flaming Enterprise

Gold Key's comic version of STAR TREK premiered while the show was on the air, although most issues were done after it left the airwaves, ending before the 1979 movie.
Errors existed even in 1970, after the show was long gone. The problem was that GK outsourced a lot of their artwork to European artists who never saw the show (this was also evident it the VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA series). They worked from photos, and one of the reference items must have been James Bama's mid 1966 promo done before the show premiered (lower right).
Bama also only had stills to work from, and it it seems he thought that , like any good spaceship, flames should shoot out the back of the Enterprise. Even from the shuttle deck.
Alberto Giolitt's Enterprise also belched flame in issue #7, from 1970. The Enterprise also had a very tight orbit around earth, damn near grazing the Eiffel Tower. I won't even harp on the Captain's Log stardate format being all out of whack.



Here are some more panels,   from issue #9, also by  Giolitti (The story this issue , btw, is by Len Wein)






20 March 2014

TV Mundial part 1

TV Mundial was published in Mexico from 1962 to 1974, seemingly almost exclusively printing translations of Dell comics.   Here are some covers with their Dell and Gold Key originals. I'm not even sure these were properly licensed, since Dell and Gold Key (Western) were 2 separate companies when most of these were published.
Bewitched #9,1967. Oddly, when the Mexican edition was published, they used a slightly  different picture from the same photo session.

From January 1970, the Mexican title is THE BRAVE GENERATION.
Star Trek #1, 1967
The Gold Key version dates from  July 1970.

From January 1970, "The Young Patrol" stand in front of a phone booth which has been retouched with Spanish signage.





06 March 2014

Dear Nancy Parker "Going Steady"

from   Dear Nancy Parker #2 (September 1963)
Script:Paul S. Newman
Pencils:Mike Sekowsky



I've always liked Sekowsky's females...












02 March 2014

Dear Nancy Parker "Love Song for One"

from  Dear Nancy Parker #1 (June 1963). Some of the great Jerry Robinson's less animated work. Script is probably by Paul S. Newman.











27 February 2014

Dear Nancy Parker "Delay for Love"

from  Dear Nancy Parker #1 (June 1963). Some of the great Jerry Robinson's less animated work.









The cover is uncredited, but you wouldn't be far out on a limb suggesting it might also be by Robinson.

25 February 2014

Astro Boy in "Attack of the Mud People"


Astro Boy, known in Japan by its original name Tetsuwan Atom (鉄腕アトム Tetsuwan Atomu, "Mighty Atom," lit. "Iron Arm Atom"), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka  from 1952 to 1968. The story follows the adventures of a robot named Astro Boy and a selection of other characters along the way
In 1965, Gold Key published a one-shot comic book, licensed by NBC Enterprises, based on the US version of the Astro Boy TV show. This was done without any input from Osamu Tezuka, who considered the book an unauthorized or "pirate" edition and denounced the publication as "horribly drawn"

from Astro Boy #1 (August 1965). Only issue. Artist unknown