“My goal is to be able to say to fans – you know how you just started collecting and you found out that there were 1,000 comics from almost a dozen publishers and you just started crying because you already have two mortgages on your house and can’t afford them? Subscribe to this series of books and you’ll get it all.” “I want people to be able to say that everything from Gold Key #1 to the current IDW run is in this series of books.” If he can get the green light on the final set of books, he’s figured out a way to squeeze everything that’s remaining into them. “It would be a tragic shame if arguably the two most popular publishers are the ones that aren’t completed,” said Handley. So the only things that will be left to complete will be DC and IDW, which are the longest, if not the most popular runs of Star Trek comics. By the time Handley and Eaglemoss are finished with volumes 121-140, they will have succeeded in reprinting everything from Gold Key, Marvel, Wildstorm, the second Marvel series, Peter Pan Comics, the newspaper strips, the British strips, and Tokyo Pop. Including some never-before-seen issues unearthed by Handley that even Eaglemoss was not aware of. When we say every single Star Trek comic ever, we mean EVERY. Rich Handley in front of just some of his comics collection Every. He talked about how he got started collecting comics, some of his favorite pieces, and even shared some exclusive peeks at what fans can expect in the just-announced next set of volumes. TrekMovie sat down (virtually) with the man who personally owns the most complete collection of Star Trek comics in the world.
He hopes that fan support can help drum up enough interest for the final stretch. This will leave Handley just 20 volumes short of his goal to produce the ultimate completist’s comic book set ever printed. The collection will continue through Volume 140, with 120 already released, but due to COVID-19 and the uncertainty in the world, no books have yet been greenlighted after that. Meet Rich Handley – a man on a mission to reprint “every single Star Trek comic published from 1967 to present.” Since he became editor of Eaglemoss’s Star Trek Graphic Novel Collection, that has been his goal. Imagine running a marathon only to stop 20 feet of the finish line, then turning around and going home.
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