Star Trek Comics
A Complete Guide
Nearly sixty years of Trek in print, across nine publishers, roughly 1,500 individual issues. Every era. Every series. Every collected edition worth tracking down.
Trek comics began in July 1967 and have never really stopped. From Gold Key’s pulpy, off-model adventures to IDW’s modern interconnected continuity, the franchise has accumulated one of the stranger comics histories in science fiction — shaped by changing licence holders, shifting relationships with the source material, and wildly variable creative investment.
Each publisher era page leads with the collected editions that are available to buy and read, each with its own rating and review. The complete issue listings are there too, behind a toggle, for reference.
The first Trek comics ever published — built by creators who largely had no access to the actual show. Pulpy, strange, visually inventive, and unlike anything else in the franchise.
Explore this eraTwo largely forgotten formats: UK weekly strips in TV21 and Valiant, and the American newspaper syndication strip. The newspaper strip has partial TPB coverage.
Explore this eraEighteen issues bridging The Motion Picture and The Wrath of Khan. The first run to portray the characters with real fidelity to the screen. No collected editions.
Explore this eraThe longest classic publisher run and where Trek comics first became genuinely good. Two parallel ongoing series covering the TOS film era and TNG.
Explore this eraDS9-specific, arriving during the show’s early seasons and catching something of its political tone. Almost no collected edition coverage — primarily a back-issue era.
Explore this eraMarvel’s second run under the Paramount Comics imprint. Includes the fan-favourite Early Voyages focusing on Captain Pike, and two genuinely absurd X-Men crossovers.
Explore this eraDC’s WildStorm imprint used its three years well. Prestige-format miniseries for TNG, DS9, and Voyager with an ambition that still hasn’t received the recognition it deserves.
Explore this eraFour anthology volumes reimagining Trek through manga. Three TOS and one TNG. Published as collected volumes from the start — all four findable.
Explore this eraThe modern home of Trek comics and by far the largest single publisher. Every era covered, plus crossovers with Doctor Who, Transformers, Green Lantern, and Planet of the Apes.
Explore this eraThere is a gap of roughly four years between WildStorm ending in 2002 and Tokyopop arriving in 2006, during which essentially no new Trek comics were published. IDW picking up the licence in 2007 ended the longest dry spell in the franchise’s comics history.