The Key Collection, Volume 2

The Key Collection, Volume 2 was the second of five books in The Key Collection by Checker Book Publishing Group, which reprinted issues 9-16 of the TOS Gold Key Comics series, as well as two short comics and a poster from Gold Key's The Enterprise Logs omnibus. This edition included an excerpt from the TOS production bible written by Gene Roddenberry and an introduction, "A Fine Wein," by Checker’s publisher Mark Thompson.

Description[]

Back cover: Star Trek comics debuted in 1967, the year after the original televison series premiered, and continued on an irregular serial schedule until 1979 under Western Publishing's Gold Key imprint (newsprint paperback collections dubbed "The Enterprise Logs" were also printed in the 1970s.)

The comics feature the original Starship Enterprise crew (Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scott, Sulu, et al) in Star Trek adventures which couldn't be produced in any other medium and remain available nowhere else.

Eventually, sixty full-color issues would be published. This, Checker's second collection, includes the original issues nine through sixteen, dating from 1971-72, and features art by Alberto Giolitti. These Trek issues were also among the early works of renowned comics writer Len Wein, best known as the co-creator of Swamp Thing and the New X-Men — including Wolverine. He also went on to write Justice League of America, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Batman, Superman and many, many others.

Contents[]

"The Legacy of Lazarus" (#9)
"Sceptre of the Sun" (#10)
"The Brain Shockers" (#11)
"The Flight of the Buccaneer" (#12)
"Dark Traveler" (#13)
"The Enterprise Mutiny" (#14)
"Museum at the End of Time" (#15)
"Day of the Inquisitors" (#16)
"Captain James T. Kirk: Psycho-File" (The Enterprise Logs, Volume 1)
"A Page From Scotty's Diary" (The Enterprise Logs, Volume 2)
Portrait of a Starship – The Enterprise (poster, The Enterprise Logs, Volume 1, page 110)

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Gold Key Comics stories and publications
Issues	"The Planet of No Return" • "The Devil's Isle of Space" • "Invasion of the City Builders" • "The Peril of Planet Quick Change" • "The Ghost Planet" • "When Planets Collide" • "The Voodoo Planet" • "The Youth Trap" • "The Legacy of Lazarus" • "Sceptre of the Sun" • "The Brain Shockers" • "The Flight of the Buccaneer" • "Dark Traveler" • "The Enterprise Mutiny" • "Museum at the End of Time" • "Day of the Inquisitors" • "The Cosmic Cavemen" • "The Hijacked Planet" • "The Haunted Asteroid" • "A World Gone Mad" • "The Mummies of Heitius VII" • "Siege in Superspace" • "Child's Play" • "The Trial of Captain Kirk" • "Dwarf Planet" • "The Perfect Dream" • "Ice Journey" • "The Mimicking Menace" • "Death of a Star" • "The Final Truth" • "The Animal People" • "The Choice" • "The PsychoCrystals" • "A Bomb in Time" • "One of Our Captains Is Missing!" • "Prophet of Peace" • "Furlough to Fury" • "The Evictors" • "World Against Time" • "The World Beneath the Waves" • "Prince Traitor" • "Mr. Oracle" • "This Tree Bears Bitter Fruit" • "Murder on the Enterprise" • "A Warp in Space" • "Planet of No Life" • "Destination... Annihilation!" • "And a Child Shall Lead Them" • "What Fools These Mortals Be.." • "Sport of Knaves" • "A World Against Itself" • "No Time Like the Past" • "Spore of the Devil" • "The Brain-Damaged Planet" • "To Err Is Vulcan" • "The Empire Man!" • "Operation Con Game"
Additional stories	"James T. Kirk: Psycho-File" • "A Page From Scotty's Diary" • "Spock: Psycho-File" • "From Sputnik to Warp Drive"
Games	"Voyage of Discovery" • "The Tunnel of Death" • "... Wild Goose Chase!" • "A Hint of Life" • "Space Chase" • "Escape from the Clinging Dags"
Collections	Star Trek Annuals (1969 • 1970 • 1972 • 1973 • 1974 • 1975 • 1976 • 1977 • 1978 • 1979 • 1980 • 1983 • 1986) • The Enterprise Logs (Volumes 1 • 2 • 3 • 4) • The Key Collection (Volumes 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5) • Gold Key Archives (Volumes 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5) • Gold Key 100-Page Spectacular
Related media	"The Exile" • "The Red Hour" • "Colouring Book" • "Eye of the Beholder" • "The Menace of the Mechanitrons" • "Trial by Fire!"

Timeline[]

published order
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