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Star Trek The Comic Strip: Chapter 6

Continuing the slow moving syndicated adventures of the Starship Enterprise, I’ll be keeping the previous entries on the site in the archive. Judging by the panel of recap in the top corner, I’m missing the Sunday installments of this strip..

Snap Together Superheroes

These kits by Aurora, Addar and AMT pretty much sum up the early seventies for me, Superheroes, Planet of the Apes and Star Trek. I had a lot of these even though I really couldn’t build or paint them worth a damn. The Aurora Superhero kits became impromptu action figures when I didn’t have the […]

Star Trek : The Comic Strip

In 1979, a Star Trek daily comic strip appeared, tied into “Star Trek : The Motion Picture”. What’s weird about this is I somehow clipped and pasted an entire story into a scrap book as a kid, eventhough I have no recollection of doing so. It does make sense, as a kid, I was really […]

The Human Adventure is Just Beginning

I have to admit I really liked Star Trek The Motion Picture as a kid, not really the movie itself but the merchandising. As a kid I had all the Mego figures and the styrene bridge playset. I never saw this southbend enterprise or phasers but those would have been once they hit clearance because […]

AMT Model Catalog from 1975

AMT was a pretty big deal in the mid seventies, they had some terrific car model kits but for those whose tastes ran geekier they had an amzing line of kits based on Star Trek. I can’t tell you how many of these great kits I ruined with my crummy gluemanship and sloppy testors paint […]