# Gold Key comics

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gold-key-comics/739182>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 2, 2015, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gold-key-comics/739182 "2015-12-02T02:43:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gold-key-comics/739182/21 "2015-12-02T19:58:46Z")

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What about Harvey Comics?

Casper  
Hot Stuff  
Sad Sack  
Richie Rich  
Little Lotta  
Little Dot  
and many others

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gold-key-comics/739182/22 "2015-12-02T23:44:48Z")

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Gold Key did _space Family Robinson._  
I had a crush on Tam Robinson.  
[![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HBKWtrKbYAk/TNWodwn92pI/AAAAAAAAH5A/deFVUBXDEMY/s1600/SFR04601.jpg) ](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HBKWtrKbYAk/TNWodwn92pI/AAAAAAAAH5A/deFVUBXDEMY/s1600/SFR04601.jpg)

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**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gold-key-comics/739182/23 "2015-12-03T01:58:06Z")

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> [@MrAtoz](#):
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> [Here](http://www.newsfromme.com/iaq/iaq07/) is a thorough, and fairly easy to follow explanation of Gold Key, Dell, Western Printing, and how they all fit together.

This is interesting. I have seen thousands of old Dells. I used to get Gold Keys as a small child.

My question: If Dell didn’t fold into Gold Key, what were Dells titles after Gold Key was created?

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**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gold-key-comics/739182/24 "2015-12-03T13:32:23Z")

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> [@drad\_dog](#):
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> This is interesting. I have seen thousands of old Dells. I used to get Gold Keys as a small child.
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> My question: If Dell didn’t fold into Gold Key, what were Dells titles after Gold Key was created?

Probably very little that you’d remember. Quoting from wikipedia:

[QUOTE=wikipedia]  
Dell Comics continued for another 11 years with licensed television and motion picture adaptations (including **Mission: Impossible** , **Ben Casey** , **Burke’s Law** , **Doctor Kildare** , **Beach Blanket Bingo** ) and a few generally poorly received original titles. Among the few long lasting series from this time include the teen-comic **Thirteen Going on Eighteen** (29 issues, written by John Stanley), **Ghost Stories** (37 issues, #1 only written by John Stanley), **Combat** (40 issues), **Ponytail** (20 issues), \*\*Kona Monarch of Monster Isle \*\*(20 issues), **Toka the Jungle King** (10 issues), and **Naza Stone Age Warrio** r (9 issues). Dell additionally attempted to do superhero titles, including **Nukla** , **Superheroes** (starring the Fab 4, as the group’s name was spelled on covers), **Brain Boy** , and a critically ridiculed trio of titles based on the Universal Pictures monsters **Frankenstein** , **Dracula** and **Werewolf** that recast the characters as superheroes.  
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**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gold-key-comics/739182/25 "2015-12-03T19:24:17Z")

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Star Trek and Dark Shadows were pretty bad but Carl Barks was great. Some of the Red Circle and Charlton super heroes were pretty good. I especially liked The Fly and Blue Beetle.

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