John Stokes is a British comic book artist. He is a penciler and inker who worked for IPC Magazines, DC Comics and Marvel UK. From 1971 to 1974, he completed 14 Star Trek: The Original Series story arcs. He was the most prolific artist of the UK comic strips series, producing 240 pages — two pages per week for 120 weeks in the magazine Valiant and TV21.
Stokes also penciled six British stories about The Transformers in the 1980s and 2000s, drawing characters that interacted with the crew of the USS Enterprise in the Star Trek vs. Transformers crossover. He worked with Alan Moore on Doctor Who and Star Wars stories. He worked with Mark Waid at DC Comics, and illustrated Manny CotoMA's Star Kid prequel comic.
Star Trek Bibliography[]
- Valiant and TV21
- #1-2: "The Aging World" (Arc 25: 10/2/71-10/9/71)
- #3-11: "By Order of the Empire" (Arc 26: 10/16/71-12/11/71)
- #12-17: "Creeping Death" (Arc 27: 12/18/71-1/23/72)
- #18-22: "Ground Zero" (Arc 28: 1/29/72-2/26/72)
- #23-33: "The Collector" (Arc 29: 3/4/72-5/13/72)
- #34-42: "To Swiftly Go..." (Arc 30: 5/20/72-7/15/72)
- #43-47: "The Mindless Ones" (Arc 31: 7/22/72-8/19/72)
- #48-56: "The Perithees Alliance" (Arc 32: 8/26/72-10/21/72)
- #57-63: "The Saboteur Within" (Arc 33: 10/28/72-12/9/72)
- #64-73: "The Void of Storms" (Arc 34: 12/16/72-2/17/73)
- #74-90: "Spheres of War" (Arc 35: 2/24/73-6/16/73)
- #91-106: "Shell Game" (Arc 36: 6/23/73-10/6/73)
- #107-118: "To Rule the Universe" (Arc 37: 10/13/73-2/29/74)
- Valiant and TV21 Summer Special 1972
- "Smoke and Mirrors" (Annual 7, July 1972)
Images[]
Tharrk's battle cruiser
Planet 656 natives
Gokron
External links[]
- John Stokes article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- John Stokes (comics) article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- John Stokes portfolio at the Comic Book Database.
- John Stokes article at Wookieepedia.
- John Stokes article at the British Comics Blog.
- John Stokes article at The Transformers Wiki.