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The comic book versions of the Twilight Zone have existed almost as long as the show itself.

In 1961, Dell Publishing produced the first Twilight Zone comics.

But that was only quite a short run until they created a new imprint called Gold Key.

Now the gold key issues are probably the most common, the most famous Twilight Zone comics out there.

Now if you look them up online, if you go to eBay where they're always changing hands, you will see that these issues had beautiful painted covers, very worthy of being works of art in themselves, you know.

The problem I found with those issues, and I have read several, is that they are very

simplistic. They are comics from another time that don't necessarily translate well to this

time. And I mean no disrespect to the creators of that time but I think

what comics are and what comics can do have moved on to a degree you know the

timeless nature of the Twilight Zone show hasn't particularly translated to those

comics but some people think there's a lot of charm there

which fair enough you know if you enjoy them that's great but I think

comics are different now you know they have grown up to a degree they are

more sophisticated and I think people have woken up to the power of that medium

now that gold key series went on until 1979 so there was a quite a long run of those that went on past the death of the show.

I may one day put together an episode looking at the history of Twilight Zone comics. I think that might be quite an interesting thing to do because the Gold Key comics weren't the last Twilight Zone comics I think that might be quite an interesting thing to do because the Gold

Key comics weren't the last Twilight Zone comics there were several more since then I think the

the publishing writer probably bounced around to a few different people and different companies

have all had their stab at a Twilight Zone comic I also have several of those issues

and some are more successful than others and that's always going to be the thing you know

to make a story Twilight Zone isn't just telling a story you know there's got to be a

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