Letters to the Editor

I wrote a few letters to the editor back in my younger days, and two of them were published.

My first letter appeared in the June 1984 issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction magazine. Asimov was my principal idol during my teenage years, and I subscribed to his magazine for about a decade. Needless to say I was (and still am!) very excited to see my letter in his 'zine and to know that he had read and responded to it.


I also had a letter published in the December 1984 issue of DC's Star Trek comic book.

ST:TFF Comic Book Adaptation

DC released a comic book adaptation of the fifth Star Trek film.

Above: Cool panels covering one of the most effective passages of the film.

Above: The rock creature didn't make it into the film, but it did appear in the comic!

Ad for the launch of DC's 2nd monthly comic featuring the original crew and their first monthly TNG comic.

DC comic Who's Who

DC also released a 2-issue "Who's Who" comic in 1987.

Above: Who's Who #1, March 1987

Above: Who's Who #2, April 1987

DC comic series 1 annuals

DC released three Star Trek "annuals" during the run of its first Star Trek monthly comic.

Above: Annual #1, 1985, "All Those Years Ago..."

Above: Annual #2, 1986, "The Final Voyage"

Above: Annual #3, 1988, "Retrospect"

Alf!

My second favourite alien life form of the 1980s may have been ALF, who starred in a self-titled science fiction sitcom in the late 1980s. (Colonel Internet informs me that it premiered in September 1986 and survived for 4 seasons and 102 episodes.) I think I only watched for the first season or two, but was impressed enough at the time to pick up the first issue of Marvel's ALF comic book.

DC comics 1988

After missing the last 3 issues of DC's monthly comic book in 1987, I got back on track with the January 1988 issue. I managed to pick up all but one (#55) of the remaining books in the series, which ended with the November 1988 issue.

Above: Issue #46, January 1988, "Getaway"

Above: Issue #47, February 1988, "Idol Threats"

Above: Issue #48, March 1988, "The Stars in Secret Influence"

Above: Issue #49, April 1988, "Aspiring to be Angels"

Above: Issue #50, May 1988, "Marriage of Inconvenience"

Issue #51, June 1988, "Haunted Honeymoon"

Above: Issue #52, July 1988, "Hell in a Handbasket"

Above: Issue #53, August 1988, "You're Dead Jim"

Above: Issue #54, September 1988, "Old Loyalties"

Above: Issue #56, November 1988, "A Small Matter of Faith"

Issue #56 was the the final issue of the first DC monthly series. However, less than a year later a second monthly Trek comic from DC (featuring the TOS characters) was launched. The 2nd series lasted 80 issues, from October 1989 to February 1996.

ST:TNG comic mini-series

DC launched a 6-issue mini-series Star Trek: The Next Generation comic book shortly after the show's premiere.

Above: Issue #1, February 1988, "Where No One Has Gone Before!"

Above: Issue #2, March 1988, "Spirit in the Sky"

Above: Issue #3, April 1988, "Q Factor"

Above: Issue #4, May 1988, "Q's Day"

Above: Issue #5, June 1988, "Q Effects!"


I guess I wasn't hanging on the edge of my seat with these, since I didn't pick up the sixth and final book in the series. (Though, to be fair, this was about the time that my overall Trek madness began to wane.)