History Creator / GoldKeyComics

Gold Key soon entered the visual novel market and started doing the entire ''Franchise/{{Barbie}}'' visual novel series, marketed towards preteen girls. The novel series was often known as ''Generation Girl'', aptly dropping the ''comics'' from its brand name.

Gold Key soon entered the visual novel market and started doing the entire ''Franchise/{{Barbie}}'' visual novel series, marketed towards preteen girls. The novel series was often known as ''Generation Girl'', aptly dropping the ''comics'' from its name.

Gold Key soon entered the visual novel market and started doing the entire ''Franchise/{{Barbie}}'' visual novel series.

** Gold Key's ''ComicBook/LooneyTunes'' comics deserve special mention. They ran for decades and built up an ExpandedUniverse, complete with original characters like WesternAnimation/BugsBunny's girlfriend Honey Bunny, Porky's nephew Cicero, the Road Runner's wife and three sons, and Sniffles' human friend Mary Jane. The comics are also the only reason anyone is familiar with Petunia Pig, who was a regular cast member in print, but who only appeared in a small handful of early cartoons. [[note]] She does have a cameo in the 1970's TV short, "Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol," which not coincidentally was produced when the Gold Key comics were going strong. [[/note]] Bugs's nephew Clyde, who had appeared in a few of the animated shorts, is another prominent AscendedExtra. The Bugs Bunny newspaper strip and all Looney Tunes books and merchandise of those years featured these characters prominently, and any fan of that period would be likely to recognize them. The stories' style arguably bore more resemblance to the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse than to the faster-paced Warner animated shorts (and Whitman did publish Duck comics for Disney). Since Gold Key/Whitman went under, though, this version of the characters and their world seems to have been completely forgotten by Creator/WarnerBros One of the most notable writers was Creator/MarkEvanier.

** Gold Key's ''ComicBook/LooneyTunes'' comics deserve special mention. They ran for decades and built up an ExpandedUniverse, complete with original characters like WesternAnimation/BugsBunny's girlfriend Honey Bunny, Porky's nephew Cicero, the Road Runner's wife and three sons, and Sniffles' human friend Mary Jane. The comics are also the only reason anyone is familiar with Petunia Pig, who was a regular cast member in print, but who only appeared in a small handful of early cartoons. [[note]] She does have a cameo in the 1970's TV short, "Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol," which not coincidentally was produced when the Gold Key comics were going strong. [[/note]] The Bugs Bunny newspaper strip and all Looney Tunes books and merchandise of those years featured these characters prominently, and any fan of that period would be likely to recognize them. The stories' style arguably bore more resemblance to the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse than to the faster-paced Warner animated shorts (and Whitman did publish Duck comics for Disney). Since Gold Key/Whitman went under, though, this version of the characters and their world seems to have been completely forgotten by Creator/WarnerBros One of the most notable writers was Creator/MarkEvanier.

** Gold Key's ''ComicBook/LooneyTunes'' comics deserve special mention. They ran for decades and built up an ExpandedUniverse, complete with original characters like WesternAnimation/BugsBunny's girlfriend Honey Bunny, Porky's nephew Cicero, the Road Runner's wife and three sons, and Sniffles' human friend Mary Jane. The comics are also the only reason anyone is familiar with Petunia Pig, who was a regular cast member in print, but who only appeared in a small handful of early cartoons. [[note]] She does have a cameo in the 1970's TV short, "Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol," which not coincidentally was produced when the Gold Key comics were going strong. [[/note]] The Bugs Bunny newspaper strip and all Looney Tunes books and merchandise of those years featured these characters prominently, and any fan of that period would be likely to recognize them. The stories' style arguably bore more resemblance to the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse than to the faster-paced Warner animated shorts (and Whitman did publish Duck comics for Disney). Since Gold Key/Whitman went under, though, this version of the characters and their world seems to have been completely forgotten by Creator/WarnerBros

[[CanonInvasion Several of Gold Key's original properties (Dr. Solar, Magnus and Turok) were sold to]] ValiantComics in the 1990s, and have more recently reappeared in Creator/DarkHorseComics. In 2013, it was announced that these properties would be published by Creator/DynamiteComics.

[[CanonInvasion Several of Gold Key's original properties (Dr. Solar, Magnus and Turok) were sold to]] ValiantComics in the 1990s, and have more recently reappeared in Creator/DarkHorseComics. In 2013, it was announced that these properties would be published by DynamiteComics.

* RecycledInSpace: ''Space Family Robinson'' (aka ''Lost In Space: Space Family Robinson'') was ''TheSwissFamilyRobinson'' in space!

* ''ComicBook/{{Turok}}''[[/index]]

!!Gold Key comics with their own trope pages include:

* ''ComicBook/{{Turok}}''

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** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', ''MickeyMouse'', ''Series/TheTwilightZone'', ''Anime/BattleOfThePlanets'', ''BuckRogers'', ''Series/TheManFromUNCLE'', ''Series/AdamTwelve'', and on and on. The ''Star Trek'' comics have been collected in a trade paperback.

* ''DoctorSolar''

** Gold Key's ''ComicBook/LooneyTunes'' comics deserve special mention. They ran for decades and built up an ExpandedUniverse, complete with original characters like WesternAnimation/BugsBunny's girlfriend Honey Bunny, Porky's nephew Cicero, the Road Runner's wife and three sons, and Sniffles' human friend Mary Jane. The comics are also the only reason anyone is familiar with Petunia Pig, who was a regular cast member in print, but who only appeared in a small handful of early cartoons. The Bugs Bunny newspaper strip and all Looney Tunes books and merchandise of those years featured these characters prominently, and any fan of that period would be likely to recognize them. The stories' style arguably bore more resemblance to the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse than to the faster-paced Warner animated shorts (and Whitman did publish Duck comics for Disney). Since Gold Key/Whitman went under, though, this version of the characters and their world seems to have been completely forgotten by Creator/WarnerBros

[[CanonInvasion Several of Gold Key's original properties (Dr. Solar, Magnus and Turok) were sold to]] ValiantComics in the 1990s, and have more recently reappeared in Creator/DarkHorseComics. In 2013, it was announced that these properties would be published by Comicbook/DynamitePublishing.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The early Star Trek comics were drawn by Italian artists who had not seen the show and were working from publicity stills. The artwork is intriguing, but varies wildly from the style of the show, with unrecognisable machines flanking the transporter pad, and tricorders used as communicators. The writing is also bizarre, with the Enterprise exploring other galaxies, entering planets' atmospheres, and in one entertaining but [[http://www.comics101.com/comics101/?mode=project&action=view&project=Comics+101&chapter=105 notorious example]] committing planet-wide genocide again a plant civilisation to prevent it spreading to other parts of an otherwise ''[[WhatTheHellHero uninhabited galaxy]]''.

[[CanonInvasion Several of Gold Key's original properties (Dr. Solar, Magnus and Turok) were sold to]] ValiantComics in the 1990s, and have more recently reappeared in Creator/DarkHorseComics.

** Gold Key's ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' comics deserve special mention. They ran for decades and built up an ExpandedUniverse, complete with original characters like BugsBunny's girlfriend Honey Bunny, Porky's nephew Cicero, the Road Runner's wife and three sons, and Sniffles' human friend Mary Jane. The comics are also the only reason anyone is familiar with Petunia Pig, who was a regular cast member in print, but who only appeared in a small handful of early cartoons. The Bugs Bunny newspaper strip and all Looney Tunes books and merchandise of those years featured these characters prominently, and any fan of that period would be likely to recognize them. The stories' style arguably bore more resemblance to the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse than to the faster-paced Warner animated shorts (and Whitman did publish Duck comics for Disney). Since Gold Key/Whitman went under, though, this version of the characters and their world seems to have been completely forgotten by Creator/WarnerBros

** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', ''MickeyMouse'', ''Series/TheTwilightZone'', ''Anime/BattleOfThePlanets'', ''BuckRogers'', ''Series/TheManFromUNCLE'', ''Series/{{AdamTwelve}}'', and on and on. The ''Star Trek'' comics have been collected in a trade paperback.

** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', ''MickeyMouse'', ''Series/TheTwilightZone'', ''Anime/BattleOfThePlanets'', ''BuckRogers'', ''Series/TheManFromUNCLE'', ''Series/{{Adam-12}}'', and on and on. The ''Star Trek'' comics have been collected in a trade paperback.

** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', ''MickeyMouse'', ''Series/TheTwilightZone'', ''Anime/BattleOfThePlanets'', ''BuckRogers'', ''Series/TheManFromUNCLE'', and on and on. The ''Star Trek'' comics have been collected in a trade paperback.

** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', ''MickeyMouse'', ''Series/TheTwilightZone'', ''Anime/BattleOfThePlanets'', ''BuckRogers'', ''Series/TheManFromUNCLE'', most of the Creator/HannaBarbera properties, and on and on. The ''Star Trek'' comics have been collected in a trade paperback.
*** In 1970, Gold Key lost the rights to the pre-1967 Hanna-Barbera line-up. Charlton picked them up. After Gold Key lost the H-B line-up entirely in 1975, Charlton picked up most of those properties as well.

** Gold Key's ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' comics deserve special mention. They ran for decades and built up an ExpandedUniverse, complete with original characters like BugsBunny's girlfriend Honey Bunny, Porky's nephew Cicero, the Road Runner's wife and three sons, and Sniffles' human friend Mary Jane. The comics are also the only reason anyone is familiar with Petunia Pig, who was a regular cast member in print, but who only appeared in a small handful of early cartoons. The Bugs Bunny newspaper strip and all Looney Tunes books and merchandise of those years featured these characters prominently, and any fan of that period would be likely to recognize them. The stories' style arguably bore more resemblance to the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse than to the faster-paced Warner animated shorts (and Whitman did publish Duck comics for Disney). Since Gold Key/Whitman went under, though, this version of the characters and their world seems to have been completely forgotten by WarnerBros.

** ''Franchise/StarTrek'', ''MickeyMouse'', ''TheTwilightZone'', ''BattleOfThePlanets'', ''BuckRogers'', ''TheManFromUNCLE'', most of the HannaBarbera properties, and on and on. The ''Star Trek'' comics have been collected in a trade paperback.