Marvel's Star Trek had some very silly covers.

I've been reading the recently published Star Trek Omnibus Volume 1 from IDW. It reprints the entire Star Trek series from Marvel that was released right after Star Trek: The Motion Picture (the first three issues are omitted--they were an adaptation of the movie itself and will be collected in a movie adaptation omnibus that will make up Volume 2). In those days when Marvel picked up a license to make comic versions of a Hollywood property, the results were often rather lame. A lot of it could be elements of transfering a property from one medium to another--just as sending a comic to a movie theater can be disastrous if one doesn't know what one is doing the same is true of moving a movie/television property to the comic medium. It isn't always bad, and comics companies have learned better ways to do this. But when Marvel did it, it was usually particularly bad (example--although not technically a Hollywood property as such--Marvel's Godzilla series). When Marvel regained Star Trek rights in the 1990's this still happened:



Overall this volume was not as bad as I expected. The artwork is a bit awkward in places. In particular, the Enterprise is drawn with its nacelles at awkward angles. The refitted Enterprise had made only one appearance, the movie, at this point, but the basic geometry of it was the same. Through much of the book the stories actually felt like Star Trek, which was a nice surprise. Towards the end of the run the covers became increasingly bizarre. Here are my favorites. I have no idea if anyone else finds them as funny as I do.

I have nothing to say about this one.



There were two "Captain Kirk's crazy" covers in a row for unrelated stories.





How many comics series brag about being canceled? This last issue boldly proclaims itself to be a collectors' item.