The Original Crew

    (Personality, 1991-1992)
™ and ©1991 Personality Comics, Inc.

Personality Comics specializes in brief biographies of pop culture stars, done up in comic book form. Under their flagship line, Personality Comics profiled everyone from porn star Traci Lords to Arnold Schwarzenegger. In this ten-issue series, they give biographies of the cast members of the original Star Trek crew. (A simultaneously introduced series The New Crew profiles the crew of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

The series leads off with a bio of William Shatner, a.k.a. Captain James T. Kirk. Aside from noting that he grew up in Montreal, Quebec, and that his father didn’t want him to become an actor, it sheds precious little light on the subject. Instead of taking on such easy targets as his perpetual overacting, or embarrassing choice of roles (T.J. Hooker?), it merely fawns over Shatner at nauseating length. Similar treatment is given to nearly every other star profiled.
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#1 (Patrick Stewart on back cover)

June, 1991
Cover Price: $2.95
3 copies available from $2.00
Stephen Spire IIIAldrin Aw, Ward
#2

September, 1991
Cover Price: $2.95
3 copies available from $7.99
  
#2 Variation A

September, 1991
Cover Price: $3.95
1 copy available for $24.98
  
#3

October, 1991
Cover Price: $2.95
1 copy available for $1.99
TikiJeff Bethune
#4

December, 1991
Cover Price: $2.95
1 copy available for $6.00
TikiJuan Pinede
#4 Variation A

December, 1991
Cover Price: $5.95
1 copy available for $9.99
TikiJuan Pinede
#5

January, 1992
Cover Price: $2.95
1 copy available for $3.00
  
#6

February, 1992
Cover Price: $2.95
1 copy available for $9.98
Pat HenkelJuan Pinede
#7

March, 1992
Cover Price: $2.95
1 copy available for $9.99
Pat HenkelMarc Caraballo, Neil Feigeles, Chuck Frazier, Tony Williams
#7 Variation A (Limited Edition Cover A by Eric Lowther)

March, 1992
Cover Price: $5.95
1 copy available for $34.98
Pat HenkelMarc Caraballo, Neil Feigeles, Chuck Frazier, Tony Williams
#10 Variation A

August, 1992
Cover Price: $5.95
1 copy available for $1.75
  
#11

September, 1992
Cover Price: $2.95
2 copies available from $8.50
  
Special Edition #1

June, 1993
Cover Price: $2.95
1 copy available for $24.98