| rdfs:comment | - From 1974 to 1975, it published a series of three comic books based on the The Addams Family 1973 animated series from Hanna-Barbera. Each book was adapted from a different episode.
- In 2004, Titan Books began reprinting collections of the Gold Key comics in The Key Collection series.
- A partir de 1982, Western Publishing publie ses comics sous le nom de Whitman Comics, avant d'abandonner la publication de comics en 1984. De multiples variantes de ces publications existent : logo "Gold Key" ou "Whitman", différences de prix.
- Gold Key Comics was a comic book publishing company established by Western Publishing in 1962. Western had had a very successful comics partnership with Dell Publishing since 1939, but a dispute that year led to their separation. Western began Gold Key as it's in-house operation, retaining the production staff who had worked on their comics to date, while Dell, who had provided the financial and administrative side of the partnership, began their own line of comics with a completely new creative team but keeping the Dell name and logo. Although noted for original adventure concepts such as Solar, Man of the Atom, and Magnus, Robot Fighter, Gold Key also specialized in producing comic titles for various licensed properties including Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers and Star Trek. The company had a
- In 1962 Dell, which had been distributing Western's comics for decades, broke off its agreement with them which led to the creation of Gold Key Comics, Inc. This period is regarded as the beginning of a long decline for Disney comics as the quality of many non-Barks stories plunged. Gold Key gave a solo comic book to Barks' Beagle Boys and promoted characters like Super Goof, Moby Duck, and Mad Madam Mim (to name a few who have survived from this period), but many of their attempts did not succeed. The space taken by this glut of new stories wiped out all remaining newspaper reprints. In fact, many of the new stories Western began making at this time never appeared in the States; they were prepared in a special deal with the Walt Disney studio for foreign consumption alone. Donald's cousin
- Angeles. The company no longer exists. Mattel bought Western in 1982, then sold it off in 1984. Under new ownership, the company was renamed Golden Books Family Entertainment and focused on children's books. Golden Books Family Entertainment was bought out by Random House in 2001. Western's one of their most famous line, Turok Son of Stone, began publishing in 1954. A total of 130 comics were released from 1954 all trough April 1, 1982. Many of the Turok Son of Stone titles have been kept in print in various forms by Valiant Comics and Dark Horse Comics.
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| abstract | - From 1974 to 1975, it published a series of three comic books based on the The Addams Family 1973 animated series from Hanna-Barbera. Each book was adapted from a different episode.
- In 1962 Dell, which had been distributing Western's comics for decades, broke off its agreement with them which led to the creation of Gold Key Comics, Inc. This period is regarded as the beginning of a long decline for Disney comics as the quality of many non-Barks stories plunged. Gold Key gave a solo comic book to Barks' Beagle Boys and promoted characters like Super Goof, Moby Duck, and Mad Madam Mim (to name a few who have survived from this period), but many of their attempts did not succeed. The space taken by this glut of new stories wiped out all remaining newspaper reprints. In fact, many of the new stories Western began making at this time never appeared in the States; they were prepared in a special deal with the Walt Disney studio for foreign consumption alone. Donald's cousin Fethry, the tycoon John D. Rockerduck, and hillbilly hermit Hard-Haid Moe were some of the characters who were largely consigned to these "foreign" stories. In later years Western dropped the Gold Key monicker to publish its comics under the label, Whitman, of its book-publishing arm. This did not reflect a change in quality. By the mid-1970s fans had shied away from Disney comics for the most part, and their distribution was very low; by 1984, when Whitman's line breathed its last, few were around to mourn its passing.
- In 2004, Titan Books began reprinting collections of the Gold Key comics in The Key Collection series.
- Gold Key Comics was a comic book publishing company established by Western Publishing in 1962. Western had had a very successful comics partnership with Dell Publishing since 1939, but a dispute that year led to their separation. Western began Gold Key as it's in-house operation, retaining the production staff who had worked on their comics to date, while Dell, who had provided the financial and administrative side of the partnership, began their own line of comics with a completely new creative team but keeping the Dell name and logo. Although noted for original adventure concepts such as Solar, Man of the Atom, and Magnus, Robot Fighter, Gold Key also specialized in producing comic titles for various licensed properties including Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers and Star Trek. The company had a series called Movie Comics which ran from 1962 to 1972 and featured over fifty movies adapted into comics. In 1970 as part of this series, Gold Key Comics published the first Planet of the Apes comic book - a one-shot movie adaptation of Beneath the Planet of the Apes drawn by Alberto Giolitti.
- A partir de 1982, Western Publishing publie ses comics sous le nom de Whitman Comics, avant d'abandonner la publication de comics en 1984. De multiples variantes de ces publications existent : logo "Gold Key" ou "Whitman", différences de prix.
- Angeles. The company no longer exists. Mattel bought Western in 1982, then sold it off in 1984. Under new ownership, the company was renamed Golden Books Family Entertainment and focused on children's books. Golden Books Family Entertainment was bought out by Random House in 2001. Most people aren't familiar with the name Western Publishing, because it published under a number of different names. Western's publishing lines included Golden Books, Whitman Publishing, and Golden Guide. It also published comic books, as Dell Comics, Gold Key Comics and Whitman Comics, and produced a comprehensive line of Golden coloring books. In the early 1990s, Golden Books Family Entertainment also released a line of CDs and cassettes under the name Golden Music. Western's one of their most famous line, Turok Son of Stone, began publishing in 1954. A total of 130 comics were released from 1954 all trough April 1, 1982. Many of the Turok Son of Stone titles have been kept in print in various forms by Valiant Comics and Dark Horse Comics.
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