Arnold Drake (March 1, 1924-March 12, 2007) was a comic book author. He wrote 22 stories for Gold Key's Star Trek: The Original Series comic, the most of any author on that series.

Drake co-created DC Comics’ Deadman and Doom Patrol, a series later rebooted by John Byrne. Drake and fellow Star Trek writers Gerry Boudreau and John Warner wrote many issues of the Dark Shadows series. Drake wrote the first feature-length story illustrated by Neal Adams. During Drake’s run on Grimm’s Ghost Stories, Frank Bolle and José Delbo contributed. For the 1976 Whitman anthology Starstream he contributed along with writers George Kashdan and Allan Moniz and artists Bolle, Delbo, Alberto Giolitti, Alden McWilliams and Nevio Zeccara in adapting science fiction stories by Isaac Asimov, Robert Bloch^MA, Larry Niven and others.

Star Trek Bibliography[]

• Gold Key Comics:
  • #17: "The Cosmic Cavemen” (February 1973)
  • #18: "The Hijacked Planet" (May 1973)
  • #19: "The Haunted Asteroid" (July 1973)
  • #20: "A World Gone Mad" (September 1973)
  • #24: "The Trial of Captain Kirk" (May 1974)
  • #25: "Dwarf Planet" (July 1974)
  • #32: "The Animal People" (August 1975)
  • #34: "The PsychoCrystals" (October 1975)
  • #36: "A Bomb in Time" (March 1976)
  • #38: "One of Our Captains Is Missing!" (July 1976)
  • #39: “Prophet of Peace” (August 1976)
  • #40: "Furlough to Fury" (September 1976)
  • #41: "The Evictors" (November 1976)
  • #42: "World Against Time" (January 1977)
  • #43: "World Beneath the Waves" (February 1977)
  • #44: "Prince Traitor" (May 1977)
  • #46: "Mr. Oracle" (August 1977)
  • #48: "Murder on the Enterprise" (co-written with Doug Drexler) (October 1977)
  • #50: "Planet of No Life" (January 1978)
  • #55: "A World Against Itself" (September 1978)
  • #57: "Spore of the Devil" (November 1978)
  • #59: "To Err Is Vulcan" (January 1979)

External links[]

• Arnold Drake article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• Arnold Drake article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
• Arnold Drake portfolio at Atomic Avenue.
• Arnold Drake index at The Comic Book Database.
• Arnold Drake at Who's Who of American Comics Books, 1928–1999.