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Star Trek: The Key Collection – Volume 3          Trade Paperback
Featuring The Original Crew of the Starship Enterprise!  Awesome!!
Published by: Checker Book Publishing Group

To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before.Star Trek is an American space opera media franchise based on the science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry. The first television series, simply called Star Trek and now referred to as “The Original Series”, debuted in 1966 and aired for three seasons on the television network NBC. It followed the interstellar adventures of Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and his crew aboard the starship USS Enterprise, a space exploration vessel, built by the United Federation of Planets in the twenty-third century. The Star Trek canon of the franchise includes The Original Series, an animated series, five spin-off television series, the film franchise, and further adaptations in several media.

Star Trek comics debuted in 1967, the year after, the original television series premiered, and continued on a somewhat irregular serial schedule until 1979 under Western Publishing’s Gold Key imprint. The comics feature the original crew of the starship Enterprise (Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Sulu, Scotty, et all) in Star trek adventures which were too ambitious, and too large a visual scale to be produced as television. Eventually, sixty full-color issues would be published.

Now, Checker Publishing presents, Star Trek: The Key Collection Volume 3! Collecting the original full-color Star Trek comics (originally published by Gold Key Comics) collected in paperback at last! Star Trek comics debuted in 1967 – the same year as the original television series – and outlasted the TV version by 10 years. This compilation offers Star Treks fans original stories to enjoy, and also gives this well admired yet hard to find series new life in trade paperback form.

This Checker’s third collection, includes original Gold Key issues from #17 to #24, dating from the early to mid-1970s. All the art is by Albert Giolitti, and the stories are penned by members of Gold Key bullpen – a diverse group of old and pulp fiction hands that creatively brought in all new unique Trek adventures available nowhere else in Trekdom.

Star Trek The Key Collection Volume 3 Trade Paperback contains:Star Trek (1972) #17
“The Cosmic Cavemen” Parts 1 & 2
Writer: Arnold Drake
Artist: Alberto Giolitti

Stardate 19:24.3: Planet Neesan; Spock is taken for the god Unruho and is able to free his shipmates who are imprisoned by the Tols. The Tols are attacked by the Kovars, but Spock plays his role as a god and the two tribes are united.
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Star Trek (1973) #18
“The Hijacked Planet”
Writer: Arnold Drake
Artist: Alberto Giolitti

Bio-magnetic tape, the lifeblood of a dying planet, is hijacked, and its Spocks fault!
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Star Trek (1973) #19
“The Haunted Asteroid”
Writer: Arnold Drake
Artist: Alberto Giolitti

The Enterprise crew beam down to an asteroid that’s supposed to be haunted…they may not believe in ghosts, but the ghosts might believe in them!
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Star Trek (1973) #20
“A World Gone Mad”
Writer: Arnold Drake
Artist: Alberto Giolitti.

The crew of the Enterprise must bring calm to a planet gone mad…if they don’t go crazy themselves!
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Star Trek (1973) #21
“The Mummies of Heitius VII”
Writer: John David Warner
Artist: Alberto Giolitti

The Enterprise crew is under attack by 10,000-year-old mummies that come to life.
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Star Trek (1974) #22
“Siege in Superspace” Parts 1 & 2
Writer: ???
Artist: ???

in which the Enterprise is trapped in Superspace, the “all-encompassing entity which exists beyond our own infinite universe,” and Kirk and company battle a war machine.
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Star Trek (1974) #23
“Child’s Play”
Writer: Gerry Boudreau
Artist: Alberto Giolitti.

Kirk and his away team have days to save a planet of children or perish from an incurable virus!
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Star Trek (1974) #24
“The Trial of Captain Kirk”
Writer: Arnold Drake
Artist: Alberto Giolitti.

Kirk is charged with treason, and it’s up to his loyal crew to clear his name!
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Trade Paperback reprints/collects Star Trek (1972-1974) #17-23.  Gold Key Comics

Trade Paperback is bagged & boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

First Edition
Publisher: Checker Book Publishing Group
Publication Date: 2005
Format: FC, 216 pages, TPB, 6.65″ x 10.2″
ISBN-10: 0975380850
ISBN-13: 9780975380857

Collectible Entertainment note: Trade Paperback is Brand New & Unread.  Very Fine + condition.  Beautiful!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Star Trek collector and/or enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Recommended.

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