From 1986: One movie. One publisher. Two magazines,
Starlog made the most of their STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME license by churning out two pretty similar one-shots devoted to the new movie.
They actually did three: they also published a POSTER MAGAZINE (which was actually a magazine, albeit with little text content, with posters rather than the traditional floppy mags so popular in the Seventies) but I skipped that at the time and I've never seen a copy cheap enough to make me splash out since. The stills were ill-suited to be blown up to poster-sized dimensions and looked pretty grainy.
Just in case these weren't sufficient to meet the demands of ardent Trekkers, DC also published the done-in-one comics adaptation.
I actually have that poster mag which I acquired from the movie boulevard store in leeds.
ReplyDeleteDavid McDonnell, the man behind all of those mags has another informative article on the trek site here :
http://www.startrek.com/article/creating-official-trek-magazines-1983-2000
another reminder that BACK ISSUE and ALTER EGO are both due out next week.
And to finish on a high note, I just stumbled upon the entire original V series dvd in my local library. Hurrah !
Certainly far superior to that god awful reboot.
*** ROM THE SPACE KNIGHT RETURNS ! ***
ReplyDeleteAs I mentioned before, ROM is returning to comics in 2016 and here is a first look :
http://www.freecomicbookday.com/Home/1/1/27/981
and at the cover :
http://www.freecomicbookday.com/news_images/172130_809303_18.jpg
and here :
ReplyDeletehttp://www.previewsworld.com/Home/1/1/71/977?articleID=172233