I think I'm going to buy some old Gold Key comics. I know I'm going to get some Russ Manning Tarzan and Magnus, but what else was good?

It seems like Dr. Solar was good, based on the reprint in the first issue of the new Dark Horse reboot.

Cool. How is the Dark Horse relaunch anyway?

Only one issue out, and I liked it. Shooter is writing it. I'd check it out if I were you, and in the first issue they reprinted the first ever appearance of Dr. Solar.

Turok, Son of Stone.

I think this will be an essential buy:

My favorites were their ghost story comics--"Ripley's Believe it Or Not True Ghost Stories," "Grimm's Ghost Stories," and "The Twilight Zone." They always had such great painted covers.

Doctor Solar by Shooter & Calero is pretty good.
Here are the covers for Doctor Solar 3 (this september i believe)

and for Turok #1 (October)

Turok, Son of Stone #1 (Raymond Swanland cover)
Writer: Jim Shooter
Artist: Eduardo Francisco
Cover Artist: Raymond Swanland
Genre: Action/Adventure
Turok, wandering warrior from a far land, rescues Andar, son of a Chiricahua chief, from the ruthless King Maxtla and his Aztec horde.
Pursued into a vast cavern, prey and predators are swept away by an unimaginable force to a savage, timeless land of nightmares and miracles, where dinosaurs thunder and rampage.
Beset by bloodthirsty enemies and beasts, Turok and Andar encounter an even deadlier threat-the fearsome Panther People and their mesmerizing goddess, Aasta.

Turok, Son of Stone returns, reimagined by legendary writer Jim Shooter and illustrated by hot new talent Eduardo Francisco (Victory, Executive Assistant: IRIS).

* 48--page first issue, includes the very first Turok story from 1954!

more can be found there:
http://www.darkhorse.com/Search/Jim%20Shooter

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And Uncle Scrooge, and Donald Duck, too, once Gold Key took them "from Dell."

Magnus, Robot Fighter really is outstanding, especially if you like Russ Manning artwork.

Other than the Barks reprints, the GK Scrooge stories are just not good at all. I couldn't recommend those.

You wouldn't think there is such a thing as a Scrooge McDuck snob, but there is.

And rightly so! Take a look at them yourself sometime.

Barks made very few Uncle Scrooge books for Dell. Most of the Barks' Uncle Scrooge
books WERE Gold Key. But yes, after Barks was done, and after they had repeated
them a few times, the non-Barks Gold Key Duck stuff is not great.

I thought Gold Key didn't start until the late 60s, when the only new Barks was some Junior Woodchuck stories he wrote but didn't draw?

I have a few Gold Key Dr. Solar books, and, truth be told, found them remarkably dull.
The painted covers were sweet, though.

When Valiant brought Dr. Solar back, I quite liked it. I'll try this new version by Shooter.
Didn't see it last Thursday. Wasn't looking for it, but normally see everything that came
in that week. Maybe by Thursday. it already was sold out.

Ah, I'm so tuned into Dell Four Color. Sorry.


Yes, there were only three Uncle Scrooge books in Four Color, then he graduated to his
own Dell series. I got confused. There were 39 Barks Scrooge Dell issues, and
then about another 30+ Barks Gold Key Scrooge issues.

I really enjoyed Mighty Samson
and, of course, The Phantom,
all of which I bought as a kid off the spinner rack.

No, I think Gold Key started in the mid-60s. So there were a number of Gold Key Barks stories. I'm not sure just how many.

I remember my mom reading Turok to me (which, if I could see it now would probably be hilarious) so that would probably have been in 1962.

"Gold Key" comics come into existence in 1962—just as the Dell Four Color series ends.
Dell comics started in the late 1930s. They financed and distributed comics produced by
Western Publishing. Almost all of the writers and artists who produced Dell comics (like
Carl Barks) actually worked for Western Publishing.

When Dell and Western parted ways in 1962, most of the Dell titles continued on as
Gold Key comics: same artists, same writers, just a different branding and distribution.
Most of the characters being published in Dell comics had been licensed by Western.

Dell Comics continued on on their own, maintained a few of the artists and writers, but
were able to keep very few of the "Dell" characters, so they started others. Shortly before
the split with Western, Dell had been trying to launch new characters, likely hedging their
bets because the partnership had begun to sour.

Uncle Scrooge's Dell run ended at issue #39. Issues #1-3 were actually Four Color 386,
456, and 495. The first Gold Key issue was #40. Carl Barks only storyboarded issue #71,
so he did 30+ issues for Gold Key. #71 came out late in 1967.

I thought I remembered there being a lot of them, and that Gold Key ran through most of the 1960s.