The old comic books are online

[egonbeeblebrox]

Has anyone been to http://www.wowio.com? It's an ad-based free book website. It lets ya download books for free legally. It puts ads for the sponsors at the front and back of the books to pay for it.

Anyway, I've been looking through it, and I think it has ALL the old TOS comic books from the late 60s and early 70s. It's pretty awesome! You should check it out if you want to read them.

 

[Michael]

It lets ya download books for free legally. It puts ads for the sponsors at the front and back of the books to pay for it.

Anyway, I've been looking through it, and I think it has ALL the old TOS comic books from the late 60s and early 70s. It's pretty awesome! You should check it out if you want to read them.

To our international friends …

Due to variations in copyright laws and rights
restrictions on many of the books on this site,
WOWIO is currently only available to people
living in the United States.

 

[egonbeeblebrox]

It lets ya download books for free legally. It puts ads for the sponsors at the front and back of the books to pay for it.

Anyway, I've been looking through it, and I think it has ALL the old TOS comic books from the late 60s and early 70s. It's pretty awesome! You should check it out if you want to read them.

To our international friends …

Due to variations in copyright laws and rights
restrictions on many of the books on this site,
WOWIO is currently only available to people
living in the United States.

Oh, no! I didn't see that. That sucks!

 

[Michael]

Oh, no! I didn't see that. That sucks!

Yeah, it does. What format are the comics in, though? PDF?

 

[Outpost4]

I think it's cool but then I live in the United States.

I just downloaded Star Trek 01 - The Planet of No Return. Belar, the format is PDF.

As for the comic itself, the drawing is pretty poor and it's funny how in one panel they talk about the Enterprise having lasers, not phasers, but still, it's fun.

And yes, that is McCoy, Kirk and Rand.

 

[Rat Boy]

Why's she wearing a red do-rag?

 

[Michael]

I just downloaded Star Trek 01 - The Planet of No Return. Belar, the format is PDF.

Funny, that's exactly the issue I tried to download.

As for the comic itself, the drawing is pretty poor and it's funny how in one panel they talk about the Enterprise having lasers, not phasers, but still, it's fun.

Maybe the story is set around the time of "Where No Man Has Gone Before". They did use lasers around this time, didn't they?

And yes, that is McCoy, Kirk and Rand.

Would have never thought that this is McCoy. But somehow I instantly recognized Rand.

 

[ex nihilo]

Checker put these out in TPB a few years ago. I purchased the whole run out of nostalgia and morbid curiosity. I am one of those fuddy-duddies that like to hold a book when I read it – having the laptop in “The Throne Room” just doesn’t work for me.

On a serious note though, despite the “art”, questionable dialogue, and misrepresentation of the characters and technology, Gold Key Trek had some real gems that harkened back to the old school pulps and solid hard sci-fi of yesteryear. As a kid, reading through the few I had purchased at a garage sale, I imagined these stories (with proper “edits” and “rewrites”) coupled with TAS as representing the fourth and fifth season we were denied.

 

[Shatmandu]

Dear Lord.

Outpost4, you think any of these would be good for the caption contest?

Dear, dear lord. The volume of ideas I'm getting for replacing the dialogue in the balloons is shorting out my ability to control my bowels.

Joe, messed

 

[Shatmandu]

On a serious note though, despite the “art”, questionable dialogue, and misrepresentation of the characters and technology, Gold Key Trek had some real gems that harkened back to the old school pulps and solid hard sci-fi of yesteryear.

I'll have to look it up, but there was one story in the first volume that, with obvious tweaking, would have worked as an episode. Maybe the prison planet one?

Joe, will check

 

[Michael]

Outpost4, you think any of these would be good for the caption contest?

Dear, dear lord. The volume of ideas I'm getting for replacing the dialogue in the balloons is shorting out my ability to control my bowels.

Belar approves of that.

 

[Outpost4]

Rings my bell, too.

If not this weekend, then definitely next. Let me download a bunch of books and find a good picture or sequence.

Belar, the transporter room in this book looks like none other - except maybe Andorian out of Enterprise - so God knows the era they were going for. The writer for the book was listed as Staff so I assume he was infected.

 

[Michael]

 

[Shatmandu]

Rings my bell, too.

If not this weekend, then definitely next. Let me download a bunch of books and find a good picture or sequence.

Sweet.

My favorite memory of these books is the one where they come across plant life that is sentient and aggressive, so they use the ship's phasers to burn away the entire surface of the planet. Spock's idea, too.

Even as a kid, I remember thinking, "Have these fuckers ever seen the show?"

Joe, turns out they hadn't

 

[Shatmandu]

What font is that? I must use it.

Joe, tech questioner

 

[Michael]

It's called LetterOMatic and can be found here.

Michael, Shatmandu helper

 

[Outpost4]

My favorite memory of these books is the one where they come across plant life that is sentient and aggressive, so they use the ship's phasers to burn away the entire surface of the planet. Spock's idea, too.

Even as a kid, I remember thinking, "Have these fuckers ever seen the show?"

Joe, turns out they hadn't

That's comic #1, the same one I downloaded.

Somehow, Joe as a kid using the word "fuckers" just makes sense.


Joe is in class. They are learning the alphabet. The teacher says, "Does anybody know a word that begins with the letter A?"

Joe is waving his hand back and forth. The teacher, who knows Joe all too well, can think of plenty of dirty words that begin with the letter A. Instead she calls on Suzy, who says, "Apple."

"Very good, Suzy. Can anybody tell me a word that begins with the letter B?"

Again, Joe is going crazy, waving his hand, but the teacher is wise - and worldly - enough not to call on him. She picks Billy instead, who answers, "Balloon."

When the teacher asks for a word beginning with the letter C, she doesn't even look at Joe. She knows way too many dirty words that begin with C. The teacher goes through the entire alphabet, getting to R. She can't think of a single dirty word that begins with R so she finally calls on Joe.

Joe stands up and says, "Rats...big, fucking rats with DICKS THIS LONG!"

 

[Michael]

 

[Rat Boy]

 

[Michael]