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Star Trek
Los Angeles Times Syndicate
newspaper comic strip
Sunday color and daily b&w newspaper comic strip, 1979-1983. Although
this comic strip was syndicated by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, it may
not have appeared in the Los Angeles Times newspaper. The number of newspapers
syndicating the strip is unknown. Detailed information on Star Trek comic
strips was researched by Rich Handley. Most of this information was published
in Star Trek Communicator #121 and is duplicated here with his generous permission.
Rich is also building a website,
The Star Trek Comic Strip Archive,
a work in progress.
Thomas Warkentin was aided by Ron Harris, Mark Rice, Dan Spiegle, Duke
Riley, Kurt Warkentin, and someone named Yang. Ron Harris was aided by
Thomas Warkentin, Paul Chadwick, Terry Robinson, Alan Munro, and Laurie
Newell. Warkentin ghost-illustrated the final week of Harris' run. Ernie
Colón was aided by Alfredo Alcala and Serc Soc. The latter may have been
a pen-name. Brief summaries of the twenty story arcs follow. Rosemarie Warkentin
provided titles for her husband's untitled strips.
12/2/79-1/12/80
Called Home
Aliens asleep for 900 years awaken to learn that their world has been devastated by war.
Stardate 7493.5
Writer: Thomas Warkentin
Artist: Thomas Warkentin
1/13/80-3/8/80
Dilithium Dilemma
Klingon raiders attack the Enterprise at Forma VI over a depleted dilithium mine.
Stardate 7495.3
Writer: Thomas Warkentin
Artist: Thomas Warkentin
3/9/80-5/3/80
The Real McCoy
Dr. Anton Zauber alters his appearance to replace McCoy, with help from McCoys ex-wife.
Stardate 7535.1
Writer: Thomas Warkentin
Artist: Thomas Warkentin
5/4/80-6/28/80
Double Bluff
Kirk grants asylum to Morg and Chetar, renegade Klingon siblings facing political persecution.
Stardate 7541.1
Writer: Thomas Warkentin
Artist: Thomas Warkentin
6/29/80-9/6/80
Aberration on Abaris
Paul and Elsa Hoff find Sumerian writings and a 5,000-year-old carving of the Enterprise on Abaris.
Writer: Thomas Warkentin
Artist: Thomas Warkentin
9/7/80-1/17/81
Husian Gambit
Rebels on Hus-24 enslave Enterprise and Venture personnel to protest Federation exploitation.
Stardate 7559.0
Writer: Thomas Warkentin
Writer: Tom Durkin
Artist: Thomas Warkentin
1/18/81-3/21/81
Heads of State
Sent to buy Lozite-M on Zeta-Atez, Kirk learns that Imperator Dykranus has a secret -- a second head!
Stardate 7988.3
Writer: Thomas Warkentin
Writer: Peter Jacoby
Artist: Thomas Warkentin
3/22/81-4/25/81
It's a Living
Journalist Jo Williams is aboard to cover a mission to Argus IV, a mining world owned by Harry Mudd.
Writer: Thomas Warkentin
Artist: Thomas Warkentin
4/26/81-7/21/81
The Savage Within
Kirk saves a derelict ship at Epsilon Anubis from deadly radiation, ending a 300-year clan war.
Stardate 7692.7
Writer: Sharman DiVono
Artist: Ron Harris
7/22/81-10/27/81
Quarantine
Chapel contracts a plague and becomes dangerously paranoid while helping the planet Sarsithia.
Stardate 7708.3
Writer: Sharman DiVono
Artist: Ron Harris
10/28/81-2/28/82
Untitled
On Iskonia, Kirk finds a Klingon crew cyborged by the Omnimind, a deadly machine intelligence.
Stardate 7719.2
Writer: Sharman DiVono
Artist: Ron Harris
3/1/82-7/17/82
The Wristwatch Plantation
Investigating the fate of a Bebebebeque colony on Mimit, the Enterprise faces Kzinti invaders
(The Slaver Weapon).
Stardate 7731.1
Writer: Sharman DiVono
Writer: Larry Niven
Artist: Ron Harris
7/18/82-9/4/82
Untitled
Kyoshi Nogura plans a starship regatta to honor his father's birthday, but
pirates abduct the ship entrants.
Stardate 7760.5
Writer: Sharman DiVono
Artist: Ron Harris
Artist: Thomas Warkentin
9/5/82-10/30/82
Untitled
Merchant fleets from Delta 330 stage a rivalry to lure the Enterprise into their grasp.
Stardate 8123.2
Writer: Martin Pasko
Artist: Padraic Shigetani
11/1/82-2/12/83
Untitled
Taking medical supplies to the Vanowen Colony, the crew is replaced by shape-shifters from Manark V.
Stardate 9546.3
Writer: Martin Pasko
Artist: Padraic Shigetani
2/14/83-5/7/83
Untitled
Admiral Yaramoto sends Kirk to end a long-standing war with the Sangdor Principality.
Stardate 9580.03
Writer: Gerry Conway
Artist: Bob Myers
5/9/83-7/2/83
Goodbye to Spock
Crashing the Copernicus in the Fortenue System, Spock becomes amnesiac and takes a lover, Dyana.
Stardate 9597.2
Writer: Gerry Conway
Artist: Ernie Colón
7/4/83-8/13/83
Untitled
Contracting a plague on Circe-Six, McCoy grows paranoid and steals a shuttlecraft to die alone.
Stardate 9620
Writer: Gerry Conway
Artist: Dick Kulpa
8/15/83-10/15/83
The Retirement of Admiral Kirk
Kirk resigns when assigned to a desk job, but finds privateer work aboard the Orion not to his liking.
Stardate 9640.1
Writer: Gerry Conway
Artist: Dick Kulpa
10/17/83-12/3/83
Untitled
The crew finds themselves on an alternate 20th century Earth where they are characters in a
television show... called Star Trek.
Writer: Gerry Conway
Artist: Dick Kulpa
#15 Aug 1978
Starlog
Sample art appeared in this issue along with an article
on the forthcoming Star Trek comic strip.
Writer: Thomas Warkentin
Artist: Thomas Warkentin
#121 Feb/Mar 1999
Star Trek Communicator
The audition strip which helped artist Dick Kulpa land work on the Star
Trek strip circa 1983 is published on page 6 of this issue as part of Rich
Handley's article on Star Trek comic strips.
Writer: Dick Kulpa
Artist: Dick Kulpa
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