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n 1969, six months before the Star Trek TV show premiered in England, British comics readers were introduced to the characters in an original comic book series.
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THE CLASSIC
UK COMICS
VOL 1
1969 1970
Finally—after decades of obscurity…the rare UK comic books from 1969 and 1970 are collected for the first time!
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The stories were serialized, generally two to three pages at a time, in two hundred fifty-seven weekly magazines spanning five years and thirty-seven storylines. These extremely rare comics have never been published in the United States. Star Trek fans will quickly note that the comics were certainly not written with strict adherence to Star Trek’s core concepts. The Enterprise frequently traveled outside our galaxy and the crew committed many violations of the never-mentioned Prime Directive along the way. Spock was not the voice of reason; rather he shouted most of his lines and often urged Kirk (or “Kurt,” as his name was misspelled in early issues) to shoot first and ask questions later. But it’s precisely that “offness” that makes them so eminently readable and deserving of a proper reprinting. They’re unique in the annals of Star Trek and fans have gone without them for far too long.