Star Trek DC v2 No. 16 Cover by Jerome K Moore
Star Trek has supported a number of comic book series, almost from the beginning of the original series. Gold Key, then Marvel had the licence, but it wasn’t until it landed at DC Comics that the property found its footing and enjoyed longer runs. A return to Marvel in the 90s was short lived, and IDW has been steadily producing quality series for a number of years now.
But back to DC. When they got to volume 2 of Star Trek, they had a young, new artist that could capture the spirit of the TV shows and movies with photorealistic accuracy. Since that time, Jerome K Moore has branched out into animation character design and other areas with continued success.
Here’s one of his best covers. Newly coloured, and with a number of the different publishers’ trade dress applied.
As published
Scan of the original art courtesy of Jerome K Moore
New colour by me
Updated DC trade dress
CBS original series trade dress
1990s Marvel trade dress
1970s Marvel trade dress
Gold Key trade dress
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The colour of Kirk’s command shirt has been a matter of deep debate. It certainly wasn’t a dark mustard as in that original cover though!
Yeah, I tried to walk the line between the gold, and the green of the wrap tunics.
If it were up to me, I’d make it green because the original fabric was closer to that (it just didn’t photograph that way) – but I’d get a fair bit of critical comments.
Even playing it safe I get this one from you within minutes of posting. 😉
I do love what you’ve done with this cover – which was already great – but looks especially cool with the other logos. How about giving it the Peter Pan Records treatment? 🙂
A man’s work is never done. 😉