Still, despite the slight shortcomings of the interface and a few other things, the thing was only 50 bucks. For what you’re getting for 50 dollars, the little gaffs can be overlooked.

I know I’m enjoying my reading immensely. I can’t get over how the Gold Key comics had rocket flames coming out of the nacelles pretty far into the 1970’s.

Maybe 50 years from now, my grandkids can sell all these antique comics and make a tidy sum? Or not.

There is an awful lot of acid in the newsprint used in the 60s-80s.

Some of the other issues are nicely scanned. All offerings lack the professional cleanup and refinement in Photoshop, imho. I enjoy that I have numerous ST issues to enjoy. I’m saddened by the lackluster quality, tho.

Howard Weinstein also wrote the animated Trek “Pirates of Orion”.

Re: #41 – I just finished reading a Dick Giordano biography and career retrospective, which features some of the beautiful inking he did on several very memorable Neal Adams pieces. Those were the days. Adams, Giordano, Gene Colan, John Romita, John Buscema, Joe Stanton, Jim Aparo, Barry Smith, Gil Kane, Bernie Wrightson, and of course Kirby – the abundance of talent in the ’70s was really staggering.

LOL! I thought I was the only person in the world who could still quote that line from Mirror for Futility from memory.

You’re off by a couple of words I think. But close enough. Man I might even be able to quote most of that entire story from memory. I listened to it that much!

“That’s okay. The IDW ones blow.”

Among others, I thought the IDW Klingon series was great… but you’re entitled to your wrong opinion.

Neal Adams still remains at the top of my favorite comic artists list. DC has been reprinting all his work for them in hardback (with a few more volumes collecting the remaining odds and ends coming in 2009) and I still can’t get enough.

I know the illo you speak of. I loved his work on the ST Peter Pan book and records. Very glad its being included in this collection.

Curt Swan did beautiful work on a post-Star Trek IV story at DC that I remember very fondly.

Neal Adams actually has a recent sketch of Shatner as Captain Kirk that’s either for sale or recently sold on his website that is really nice. I don’t know if Adams is a Trekkie, per se, but he did some great Trek illustrations back in the ’70s. There’s a Power Records album sleeve of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy on an alien planet surface that Adams did that almosty literally jumps off the page, its so energetic and lively.