Saturday, January 11, 2025

Space Force Saturday SEEKER 3000!

Comics Have Tried to Emulate the Success of Star Trek...

...as Marvel did when it took a crack at the genre with this one-shot in 1978 to test audience reaction.
You can read it by clicking on these links...
Despite promoting the series in a special science fiction issue of their Prozine FOOM (as shown HERE), the best the project got was a serialized reprint in Marvel UK's sci-fi anthology, Future Tense.
It then disappeared from everybody's radar!
Apparently, two British readers found that reprint enough to inspire their imaginations.
And, two decades later, after they turned professional, the duo pitched a sequel to the original tale!
After a highly-promoted reprint (with a couple of promotional articles detailing the new series) of the decades-old original story...
...a 4-issue limited series appeared in 1998 with an extra-long premiere issue!
"A New Beginning"
Then three regular-sized issues...
"Medusae"
"HumanKind"
"Mind Bomb"
Personally, we loved the original tale and enjoyed the sequel, which was left open-ended for more adventures with the crew of Seeker.
Sadly, over 25 years later, it's been forgotten yet again, without even a reprint hardcover or trade paperback to inspire yet another generation of creatives to continue their interstellar exploration!
But here's your chance to see "what might have been" by clicking on the links!
Enjoy!

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