STAR TREK comics debuted in 1967, the year after the original television series premiered, and continued on an irregular serial schedule until 1979 under Western Publishing's Gold Key imprint (newsprint paperback collections dubbed "The Enterprise Logs" were also offered in the 1970s). The comics feature the original Starship Enterprise crew (Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scott Sulu, et al) in Star Trek adventures which couldn't be produced in any other medium and remain available nowhere else.