Where can I find the 1984 DC Comics series of Star Trek?

Discussion in 'Trek Literature' started by KlingonCereal, Jul 20, 2021.

  1. KlingonCereal

    KlingonCereal Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    So I apologize for being a bit of a comic noob! I'm casually enjoying the Star Trek comics and wanted to check out the 1984 DC Comics series, but I'm having trouble finding it. Normally I check Comixology but it wasn't on there, I even checked alternative sources when I got really desperate - still nothing.

    Here is a link for more info on the series I am searching: https://startrekcomics.info/dc1tos.html

    Any help or tips on finding these comics would be greatly helpful!
     
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  3. KlingonCereal

    KlingonCereal Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    Wow this is amazing! I only own "newer" Macs - which i specify because they no longer support 32bit software. Do you know if this would still work on my computer as a result?
     
  4. David cgc

    David cgc Admiral Premium Member

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    Oh, yeah. The DVD is just a bunch of normal PDF files, there's no special reader app or anything. You can copy them to your drive directly and put the disc up on the shelf and read all the comics with Preview, or load them into the Apple Books app, or if you have an iPad, use a comic-reading app like Chunky.
     
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  5. KlingonCereal

    KlingonCereal Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    Oh even better! I've become so used to invasive and annoying DRM lately that I couldn't fathom them releasing DRM free PDFs lol

    I looked on eBay and found the Complete Comic Book collection for $20 shipped, which seemed like a great price. Still gotta snag a DVD drive - but thanks so much for this! No doubt it'll save me a lot of time hunting down the other various comics as well.
     
  6. Smiley

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    Another possibility is from the Star Trek Graphic Novel Collection from Eaglemoss. I am not sure how easy it is to find a single volume of something from that set. I see that Volume 31 is the first eight issues of the series you are interested in. 41, 49, 57, 72, 78, and other later volumes have other issues of the series. The full list of what they got to is here:

    https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek_Graphic_Novel_Collection
     
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  7. Kor

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    I agree on the DVD-Rom collection. The PDFs aren't super high resolution (and I think they have watermarks if I remember right), but it's a really good deal for all that content.

    Kor
     
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    KlingonCereal Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    I was looking at this yesterday. I really wanted to subscribe to this years ago but was financially unable to. Unfortunately a lot of them are hard to find, or incredibly expensive. Plus space is an issue as I move a lot, so digital is preferred for the time being. Thank you for the suggestion though!
     
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  9. Daddy Todd

    Daddy Todd Commodore Commodore

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    If not completely unavailable in the USA. I was a subscriber from Day 1, and they just skipped over a whole bunch of issues to subscribers. Some of the missing issues eventually showed up in the Eaglemoss store, but there are still 8 issues that have never been available in the USA.

    In other words, Eaglemoss sucks.
     
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    F. King Daniel Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    That comic collection DVD is amazing. With my modern computer I've just dumped the contents onto the hard drive to read whenever.
     
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  11. KlingonCereal

    KlingonCereal Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    That sucks - it was a really cool set and collection. Just poorly advertised, managed, and distributed it seems.
     
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  12. Stevil2001

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    I keep meaning to get it, though I haven't yet. When I do, I will probably dump the whole contents into Dropbox, which lets me easily read it on my tablet. (That's how I read the PDF comics I get from Humble Bundles.)
     
  13. Ryan Thomas Riddle

    Ryan Thomas Riddle Vice Admiral Admiral

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    You can buy collections from Hero Collector of the 80s DC Trek run: https://www.herocollector.com/en-us/star-trek-graphic-novel-collection
     
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    That's exactly what I do.
     
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  15. KlingonCereal

    KlingonCereal Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    I've yet to find a perfectly ideal way of managing my comic book library. Currently I use YACReader since it lets me easily host the content on a server - but its not ideal for headless servers. Is there a specific app that makes reading via dropbox a good experience? or do you just read via a standard PDF viewer?
     
  16. Stevil2001

    Stevil2001 Vice Admiral Admiral

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    I just read natively in the Dropbox app. It remembers my position, which is really the only feature I ask for.
     
  17. JD

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    I haven't noticed any watermarks on the ones I've put on my tablet.
     
  18. David cgc

    David cgc Admiral Premium Member

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    I wonder if they might be on a separate layer in a PDF and don't always display in every program. I see them in my copy (a big line-art starfleet delta in the middle of each page), but I've seen screenshots of the comics without them (I can tell they're the same scan because they still have the same copyright notices on the bottom of the page), and it didn't look like it had been Photoshopped out.
     
  19. Daddy Todd

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    I use Comic Flow to read comics on the iPad. It seamlessly handles PDFs, CBZs and CBRs.

    And it has a server function that allows me to move the files from my PC to my iPad. I’ve been using it for years now, and it gives me everything I need.
     
  20. DarrenTR1970

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    I still have my complete first run of DC's Star Trek series, the movie tie-ins, as well as Who's Who and the first TNG mini-series in storage. They're one of the few collections I kept when I sold my comics a couple of years ago. Unfortunately they're one of the few collections I didn't bag, so they're a little worse for wear.
     
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