Gold Key published 61 Star Trek comics between the years of 1967 to 1979. Seemingly written and drawn by people who had never seen the show, early issues show Scotty as a tall blonde man, and have strange character moments like Spock wishing an away team luck...
Life aboard the Gold Key Enterprise was full of danger. Simply trying to move around the galaxy could be catastrophic. The universe is not as empty as some would have you believe, space walls were everywhere!
Navigational dangers weren't the only ones the crew of the Gold Key Enterprise faced. Unable to stop a rash of space piracy, Starfleet sends Kirk and company undercover as pirates in a botched plan that sends Spock and Scotty sucked out of an airlock, seemingly betrayed by Kirk.
Another mission involved the transport of ancient Vulcan artifacts which actually contained evil 'bottled' emotions that nearly drove everyone crazy when broken....
Spock underwent a dangerous process to help a doomed civilization, causing his head to balloon up like a Bobblehead. Of course the process causes him to go mad and try to kill his fellow crew mates, until Kirk orders him to stop. And he does.
Not wanting Spock to be the only one who did something incredibly stupid, Kirk undergoes a surgical alteration, to go undercover as a man with an afro, to presumably grope a woman in an elevator accident.
The inky blackness of space isn't just the home for alien encounters. The Gold Key Enterprise faced no less than Zeus himself, and had to fight off the mighty Cyclops with one of McCoy's medical devices.
If the Gold Key Enterprise encountered Greek gods, could it be that much harder to believe they'd eventually run into...deep space voodoo?
Gold Key even tried a Star Trek Babies concept long before that sort of thing became strangely popular in the 80s...
Gold Key lost the Star Trek license to Marvel Comics in 1979. It left behind 61 issues that were mostly entertaining, if not a little bizarre....
Join us next time when we look at Marvel's first attempt with Star Trek comics...
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