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STAR TREK (DC, 1984) #1-56, ANNUAL 1-3 COMPLETE! Mike Barr, Peter David,Len Wein
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Condition: VF-NM or better; see item description Star Trek (DC, 1984) YOU GET: #1-56, ANNUAL 1-3 Complete Series! From Atomic Avenue: "Given the poor quality of the previous attempts at adapting Star Trek for comics, Mike Barr, Tom Sutton and Ricardo Vi ... Read More
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- DC Comics
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- Horror & Sci-Fi
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Condition: VF-NM or better; see item descriptionStar Trek
(DC, 1984)
YOU GET:
#1-56, ANNUAL 1-3
Complete Series!
From Atomic Avenue:
"Given the poor quality of the previous attempts at adapting Star Trek for comics, Mike Barr, Tom Sutton and Ricardo Villagran didn’t really have to exert themselves to produce better material, and they certainly didn’t. It seemed to be considered enough to get the likenesses right, ensure that the characteristic quirks of the crew remain intact, and reprise ideas from the TV series every now and then. The one departure from expectation is Saavik replacing the temporarily deceased Spock in the early issues as the comic followed the events of the second Star Trek movie. A return for the evil Enterprise crew from the TV episode in #9–16 was selected for collection, but it’s no better than the rest of Barr’s run. He left with #16, with #19 written by Walter Koenig (Ensign Chekov). It’s badly written, although well-drawn by Dan Spiegle, and was but one of a succession of one-shot stories written by a variety of folk, but usually all drawn by Sutton and Villagran (although Gray Morrow draws nice fillers in #28, #35 and #56). The best of them is by Diane Duane in #24 and 25, who adds some much-needed light relief, although she pulls her plot from The Mouse That Roared.
Len Wein’s short run as a writer adds some much-needed continuity, but his plots are no better than Barr’s. He celebrates his departure by running through almost every bridge-scene cliché in the first five pages of #39, yet another issue in which an internal surprise—in this case on the final page—is blown on the cover. Mike Carlin is a marginal improvement in #41–47, again taking his cue from old TV episodes. By simple virtue of a fine ear for dialogue, Peter David improves the scripting immensely from #48. If not exactly realistic dialogue, most people simply not being that witty off the cuff, and sometimes too glib, it combines well with the first really engaging plot for over twenty issues, to provide one of only two runs worth bothering with in the first series. Someone is attempting to engender war between The Federation and the Klingons, and counterpointing this in microcosm are the sudden doubts of Klingon Konom and his bride-to-be Nancy in #48–50. Thereafter #51 and #52 are merely average, and Kirk starts #53 by almost dying. That and the following two issues involve the mystery of who was trying to kill him. David’s now confidently dealing with the characters, and while the ending is a little too contrived (although well set up) it’s a decent story, with Gordon Purcell filling in as penciller for two issues."
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Vf-Nm
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