Star Trek Annual 1980

Star Trek Annuals

by Arnold Drake, Alden McWilliams (Illustrator), George Kashdan

Table of contents:

*Sport of Knaves by George Kashdan
*A World Against Itself by Arnold Drake
*No Time Like the Past by George Kashdan

Genres: Science Fiction, Star Trek

60 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Arnold Drake was an American comic book writer and screenwriter best known for co-creating the DC Comics characters Deadman and the Doom Patrol, and the Marvel Comics characters the Guardians of the Galaxy, among others.
Drake was posthumously inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2008.

Reviews

[Letande D'Argon · Rating 1 out of 5]

A-a-and we're back to basic reprints. With nothing else. Thise time we've got not two, but three comics again, but... that's it. There's nothing else here. No board games, no quizzes, no crosswords, no mazes, no jokes, no interesting facts, nothing. Just some random comics from Gold Key series. Which are known to be ridiculously bad.

Moreover, it looks like World Distributors Limited willingly decided to skip the best issues and kept re-printing the worst ones. I mean, come on! George Kashdan's A Warp in Space! We need George Kashdan's A Warp in Space! Also, da heck with that thrust engine Enterprise from Dick Wood's period on cover? Me dislike.

[James · Rating 2 out of 5]

Strangely they managed to collect three issues, but abridged at least the second and third. The stories are rough enough without chopping them. The second story amounts to only 13 pages, basically half of a full issue. I think the first might’ve been complete at 26 pages. The last one was 21. Strange approach to a strange series.

The cover is beautiful though.

[Scott Williams · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wacky, but entertaining.