Gold Key comic books based on TV shows.

[kalel21]

Nowadays, a lot of science fiction and fantasy-based TV shows still get comic book adaptations, but remember when Dell (and later Gold Key) used to give just about every TV show a comic book regardless of its genre?

I wrote about a few of them in my blog today.

http://comicsradio.blogspot.com/2013/01/gold-key-and-tv.html

[Yoc]

Thanks K.
Looks like you've been pretty busy there on your blog.  Lots to read!

[KevinP]

I love the Gold Keys and still have the ones you mention, plus THE WILD WILD WEST.  Sincere attempts of telling entertaining, unpretentious stories outside the superhero medium are almost nonexistent today.  Every storyline has to save the world, the timeline or the universe. Most westerns have supernatural elements.  Even a HONEYMOONERS comic a while back had them in outer space or battling super villains! 

Some Gold Key trivia: the early STAR TREKs had them wearing backpacks on planets' surface and rocket flames from the ship's nacelles because the artwork was outsourced to an artist in Italy who'd never seen the series.

Dell did a DANGER MAN comic based on Patrick McGoohan's UK spy series; Gold Key did one but used the series' American title, SECRET AGENT.  When GK adapted the spy series AVENGERS they had to title it STEED AND MRS PEEL because a certain well known Marvel comic had the original title.

[kalel21]

I love the Gold Keys and still have the ones you mention, plus THE WILD WILD WEST.  Sincere attempts of telling entertaining, unpretentious stories outside the superhero medium are almost nonexistent today.  Every storyline has to save the world, the timeline or the universe. Most westerns have supernatural elements.  Even a HONEYMOONERS comic a while back had them in outer space or battling super villains! 

Some Gold Key trivia: the early STAR TREKs had them wearing backpacks on planets' surface and rocket flames from the ship's nacelles because the artwork was outsourced to an artist in Italy who'd never seen the series.

Dell did a DANGER MAN comic based on Patrick McGoohan's UK spy series; Gold Key did one but used the series' American title, SECRET AGENT.  When GK adapted the spy series AVENGERS they had to title it STEED AND MRS PEEL because a certain well known Marvel comic had the original title.

I didn't know about the STEED & MRs PEEL comic or the changing-the-title issue (though I'm not surprised to learn that happened). I'd love to find a copy of that one.

[Geo (RIP)]

K, they published only one issue (Photo cover) and one Variant with photo back cover, Gold Key: Nov, 1968.

Geo

I didn't know about the STEED & MRs PEEL comic or the changing-the-title issue (though I'm not surprised to learn that happened). I'd love to find a copy of that one.

[narfstar]

http://www.comics.org/series/18407/covers/

[kalel21]

Got a bid in on Ebay for a copy.

[darkmark (RIP)]

The reason why the Gold Key series was titled SECRET AGENT is because that's what the series was called on U.S. TV.  Also, the STEED AND MRS. PEEL comic was composed of British comic reprints.