What is the best way to read the Gold Key series?

[Extrocomp]

I don't want to get the DVD collection because I like comics that I can hold in my hand.

Should I buy the Key Collections, the Gold Key Archives or the Graphic Novel Collections?

I would like to read these comics in the highest quality possible. I've read somewhere that the Gold Key Archives have been remastered and recolored, while the Key Collections haven't, but I don't know if this is true.

Then there's the problem that the Gold Key Archives and the Key Collections are both unfinished. Since I want to read the complete series, should I track down the original issues or buy the Graphic Novel Collections that include one issue of the Gold Key series in each volume? Do the Graphic Novel Collections have remastered art like the Gold Key Archives, even for the issues that were not included in those Archives?

Do the Gold Key Archives and Graphic Novel Collections include the supplemental comics "Captain James T. Kirk Psycho-File", "A Page from Scotty's Diary", "Lt. Commdr. Spock Psycho-File" and "From Sputnik to Warp Drive"?

 

[ryan123450]

If you want to read all of them, and don’t want to buy 60ish issues of the Graphic Novel Collection, I don’t see how you’re not going to have to settle for the DVD Collection.

 

[Extrocomp]

If you want to read all of them, and don’t want to buy 60ish issues of the Graphic Novel Collection, I don’t see how you’re not going to have to settle for the DVD Collection.

I don't know if the Graphic Novel Collections have remastered art or not. If not, then it might be cheaper to buy the original issues on eBay.

 

[Charles Phipps]

I just got my first copy of the Starfleet Academy series. I'm just interested in re-reading that.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

What's the best way to read the Gold Key ST comic books?

With a sense of humor, an understanding of their era, and an understanding of their target audience.

 

[Christopher]

What's the best way to read the Gold Key ST comic books?

With a sense of humor, an understanding of their era, and an understanding of their target audience.

Start at the top left, go right, then down and left, then right again, and repeat.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I don't know if the Graphic Novel Collections have remastered art or not. If not, then it might be cheaper to buy the original issues on eBay.

Original Gold Key issues go for huge prices often.

Only the one-per-volume Eaglemoss books collected all of the Gold Key issues. The three other attempts to collect the stories all fizzled out before getting to the latter issues. So the DVD set is the most efficient/inexpensive way to read them all.

 

[Orac]

In the original Klingon.

 

[Therin of Andor]

In the original Klingon.

There is a Gold Key character named Krad. I always suspected he was a Klingon spy. So that works.

https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Krad

 

[Steve Roby]

I don't want to get the DVD collection because I like comics that I can hold in my hand.

That's one of the reasons I still use my tablets regularly. I have no interest in reading a comic on a PC screen, but tablets are portable and handy. I've got a 128 gb iPad Air that must be about eight years old but still works fine, and a new Kindle Fire HD 10 with a 200 gb microSD card. I buy a fair number of comics and graphic novels these days through Amazon. But the Star Trek comics DVD has the comics as straightforward PDFs you can just copy off the disc onto your computer and send to a tablet, and there's also Humble Bundle's occasional Star Trek and Doctor Who comics bundles, which you can download as PDF or CBZ. I've read a lot of that stuff on my tablets.

 

[Christopher]

That's one of the reasons I still use my tablets regularly. I have no interest in reading a comic on a PC screen, but tablets are portable and handy.

When I got my first smartphone, they had a special going where I could've gotten a tablet along with it for just another 50 bucks. I've always regretted that I didn't take the offer. At the time, I didn't think a tablet would be of much use, but now I know how many things I can do on a smartphone that would work a lot better on a tablet (like last year when CBS All Access suddenly stopped working on my browsers and I had to watch most of Discovery season 3 on my phone).

 

[Steve Roby]

When I got my first smartphone, they had a special going where I could've gotten a tablet along with it for just another 50 bucks. I've always regretted that I didn't take the offer. At the time, I didn't think a tablet would be of much use, but now I know how many things I can do on a smartphone that would work a lot better on a tablet (like last year when CBS All Access suddenly stopped working on my browsers and I had to watch most of Discovery season 3 on my phone).

The Kindle Fire HD 8 and 10 are pretty decent Android-ish tablets that are often on sale for a small fraction of the cost of an iPad. I think my 8 cost under C$100, and the 10 was on sale for C$144, which isn't a lot more than US$100. The 8s have been working for at least three or four years now (bought two of them, one for me, one for my wife, some time before she died). No complaints with the 10 yet either.

 

[Stevil2001]

Yeah, I've been very happy with my Kindle Fire. It's been a great investment. I don't watch much tv on it, but since you can add a Paramount+ subscription to to your Amazon Prime account, it's easy to watch Star Trek on it.

 

[seigezunt]

A discovery I made vis a vis the DVD: I currently don't have a laptop with a DVD drive, so I used my old laptop to upload the DVD's contents to my Dropbox account, and I discovered that when you view the comics in the Dropbox web browser, it removes the Starfleet delta watermark that it's always shown in any other viewer I use.

I read them using my iPad mini, and it's comparable to having an in-hand comic.

 

[Christopher]

What the heck is Dropbox, anyway? For a while, my computer would sometimes pop up a notice in the tray saying it was automatically uploading to Dropbox, but then it wouldn't actually upload anything, just slow the computer down for no apparent reason.

 

[F. King Daniel]

What the heck is Dropbox, anyway? For a while, my computer would sometimes pop up a notice in the tray saying it was automatically uploading to Dropbox, but then it wouldn't actually upload anything, just slow the computer down for no apparent reason.

Cloud storage.

 

[Christopher]

Cloud storage.

Oh. I tried storing my clouds once, but the boxes got all soggy.