Fact Attack!

Gold Key’s Star Trek ran for 61 issues between 1967 and 1979, when Marvel won the licence just in time for The Motion Picture.

The strip revisited such familiar TV characters as Harry Mudd, the Guardian of Forever, Zefram Cochrane and the Companion.

One of the regular writers of the Gold Key comic was Len Wein, who would go on to co-create Wolverine for Marvel in 1974.

In Britain the strips were reprinted in a run of annuals, alongside such filler as Sulu’s Double U Word Quiz and Star Trek Riddle-Me-Ree.