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| Bob Larkin |
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| Steve Leialoha |
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| Dave Cockrum/Klaus Janson |
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| Bob Wiacek |
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| Dave Cockrum/Klaus Janson |
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| Frank Miller/Klaus Janson |
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| Dave Cockrum/Klaus Janson |
With the release of
Star Trek - The Motion Picture, Marvel Comics got their hands on the license to produce
Trek comics. Their agreement with Paramount only allowed them to use elements that appeared in the first movie (or so they believed), so there were no overt references to events or incidental characters from the original television series.
After the three-issue movie adaptation (also sold as a collected edition in the
Marvel Super Special magazine format), they moved onto original adventures. The artist of the first few issues,
Dave Cockrum, was a big
Trek fan, and managed a pretty fair job of rendering the familiar cast and settings in a "Marvel" manner, although later artists weren't quite as successful at finding the right balance between appropriately
Star Trek-like storytelling and the company's standard super-hero aesthetic.
Here's a gallery of the covers to the first six issues, plus
Bob Larkin's cover to
Marvel Super Special #15. I'll post the remaining covers soon.
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