IDW Publishing (also known as IDW Comics and Idea & Design Works) is an American comic book company founded in 1999 by Robbie Robbins and Ted Adams, specializing in comics based on TV and movie franchises, such as CSI, Angel, Galaxy Quest, and 24. IDW began releasing Star Trek issues in 2007.
The company currently holds the licenses for Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Lower Decks, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds comics, as well as comics set in the alternate reality of Star Trek (2009).
Following a successful run of miniseries, four releases in 2008 were announced under the umbrella title Star Trek: Second Stage (although this title only appeared on issues of Star Trek: New Frontier - Turnaround, a tie-in to the novel series). IDW has since made Star Trek: Resurgence to tie into the video game of the same name.
In 2022, IDW launched an original comic series featuring characters from previous Star Trek series. This series had the spin-offs Star Trek: Defiant and Star Trek: Sons of Star Trek and the cross-over event Star Trek: Day of Blood,
Publications[]
Ongoing series[]
Title | Era | Released | Issues | Collections | |
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Star Trek: Ongoing | AR | September 2011 – August 2016 |
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Star Trek: New Visions | TOS | May 2014 – June 2018 |
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Star Trek: Boldly Go | AR | October 2016 – March 2018 |
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Star Trek: Year Five | TOS | April 2019 – October 2021 |
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Star Trek | Original | October 2022 – |
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Star Trek: Defiant | Original | March 2023 – |
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Star Trek: Lower Decks | LD | November 2024 – |
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Miniseries[]
One-shots[]
Original graphic novels[]
Title | Era | Released | |
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Star Trek: Lower Decks - Warp Your Own Way | LD | October 2024 |
Originally planned releases[]
Title | Released | Issues | Collection | |
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Star Trek: Probability Factor | Announced in 2007, cancelled | |||
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Mirror Images | Announced in 2008, cancelled | |||
Two unnamed series from John Byrne [1] | Announced in 2010, cancelled | |||
Assignment: Earth volume 2 | Announced in 2010, cancelled | |||
Star Trek: The Next Generation/Aliens: Acceptable Losses | Announced Oct 2016, withdrawn Dec 2016 | |||
"Star Trek: Gold Key Archives Volume 6" | Announced for 11 July 2017, cancelled |
Collected editions[]
Sales charts[]
- Due to the nature of comic sales, diminishing returns with each succeeding issue are a general trend, and do not necessarily denote a series is failing.
- These figures denote sales to comic specialty stores in the United States via Diamond Comics Distributors. IDW also distributes through other retail channels (including its website) and these are not reflected in the numbers provided in this article. Numbers provided by ICv2.com and CBR. Percentages are rounded to one decimal place.
Issue Number/Title | Sales | Variance | |
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from previous issue | from first issue | ||
The Space Between | |||
#1 - "History Lesson" | 14,688 | n/a | n/a |
#2 - "Captain's Pleasure" | 12,034 | -18.1% | -18.1% |
#3 - "Strategy" | 10,519 | -12.6% | -28.4% |
#4 - "Light of the Day" | 9,647 | -8.3% | -34.3% |
#5 - "Space Seeds" | 9,262 | -4.0% | -36.9% |
#6 - "An Inconvenient Truth" | 8,814 | -4.8% | -40.0% |
Klingons: Blood Will Tell | |||
#1 - "Against Their Nature" | 12,146 | n/a | n/a |
#1 - Klingon language variant[2] | 3,878 | n/a | n/a |
#2 - "Beneath the Skin" | 10,416 | -14.2% | -14.2% |
#3 - "The Order of Things" | 9,476 | -9.0% | -22.0% |
#4 - "Blood Reign O'er Me" | 8,966 | -5.4% | -26.2% |
#5 - "Losses" | 8,589 | -4.2% | -29.3% |
Star Trek: Year Four | |||
#0 - "Focus on... Star Trek"[3] | 4,960 | n/a | n/a |
#1 - "Year Four, Issue 1" | 13,112 | n/a | n/a |
#2 - "Year Four, Issue 2" | 11,484 | -12.4% | -12.4% |
#3 - "Year Four, Issue 3" | 11,056 | -3.7% | -15.7% |
#4 - "Year Four, Issue 4" | 10,522 | -4.8% | -19.8% |
#5 - "Year Four, Issue 5" | 10,187 | -3.2% | -22.3% |
#6 - "Year Four, Issue 6" | 9,797 | -3.8% | -25.3% |
Star Trek: Alien Spotlight volume 1[4] | |||
#1 - "Alien Spotlight: The Gorn" | 8,371 | n/a | n/a |
#2 - "Alien Spotlight: Vulcans" | 8,260 | -1.3% | -1.3% |
#3 - "Alien Spotlight: Andorians" | 7,730 | -6.4% | -7.7% |
#4 - "Alien Spotlight: Orions" | 7,724 | -0.1% | -7.7% |
#5 - "Alien Spotlight: Borg" | 8,412 | +8.9% | +0.5% |
#6 - "Alien Spotlight: Romulans" | 9,249 | +10.0% | +10.4% |
Intelligence Gathering | |||
#1 - "Valued Intelligence" | 9,388 | n/a | n/a |
#2 - "A Matter of Dates" | 7,551 | -19.6% | -19.6% |
#3 - "Chasing Shadows" | 7,582 | +0.4% | -19.2% |
#4 - "Matters of the Mind" | 7,448 | -1.8% | -20.7% |
#5 - "Disgrace" | 7,449[5] | 0.0% | -20.7% |
Turnaround | |||
#1 - "Turnaround, Part I" | 12,836 | n/a | n/a |
#2 - "Turnaround, Part II" | 9,284[6] | -27.7% | -27.7% |
#3 - "Turnaround, Part III" | 9,070 | -2.3% | -29.3% |
#4 - "Turnaround, Part IV" | 8,703 | -4.0% | -32.2% |
#5 - "Turnaround, Part V" | 8,272 | -5.0% | -35.6% |
Year Four: The Enterprise Experiment | |||
#1 - "Enterprise Experiment, Part 1" | 11,579 | n/a | n/a |
#2 - "Enterprise Experiment, Part 2" | 9,739[5] | -15.9% | -15.9% |
#3 - "Enterprise Experiment, Part 3" | 8,973 | -7.9% | -22.5% |
#4 - "Enterprise Experiment, Part 4" | 8,743 | -2.6% | -24.5% |
#5 - "Enterprise Experiment, Part 5" | 8,090 | -7.5% | -30.1% |
Star Trek: Assignment: Earth | |||
#1 - "Brighter Than a Thousand Suns" | 10,359 | n/a | n/a |
#2 - "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" | 9,329 | -9.9% | -9.9% |
#3 - "My Name Is Legion" | 9,123 | -2.2% | -11.9% |
#4 - "We Have Met the Enemy..." | 8,473 | -7.1% | -18.2% |
#5 - "Too Many Presidents" | 8,149 | -3.8% | -21.3% |
Star Trek: Mirror Images | |||
#1 - "Mirror Images, Part 1" | 10,325 | n/a | n/a |
#2 - "Mirror Images, Part 2" | 8,763 | -15.1% | -15.1% |
#3 - "Mirror Images, Part 3" | 7,930 | -9.5% | -23.2% |
#4 - "Mirror Images, Part 4" | 7,712 | -2.7% | -25.3% |
#5 - "Mirror Images, Part 5" | 7,536 | -2.3% | -27.0% |
Star Trek: Romulans - The Hollow Crown | |||
#1 - "The Hollow Crown, Part 1" | 8,074 | n/a | n/a |
#2 - "The Hollow Crown, Part 2" | 7,505 | -7.0% | -7.0% |
Star Trek: The Last Generation | |||
#1 - "Do Not Close Your Eyes" | 8,664 | n/a | n/a |
#2 - "No Cure for That" | 7,655 | -11.6% | -11.6% |
#3 - "What Happens Now" | 7,171 | -6.3% | -17.2% |
#4 - "Inevitability" | 7,250 | +1.1% | -16.3% |
#5 - "The End of History" | 7,302 | +0.7% | -15.7% |
Star Trek: Countdown | |||
#1 - "Countdown, Number One" | 14,589 | n/a | n/a |
#2 - "Countdown, Number Two" | 11,359 | -22.1% | -22.1% |
#3 - "Countdown, Number Three" | 12,488 | +9.9% | -14.4% |
#4 - "Countdown, Number Four" | 14,545 | +16.5% | -0.3% |
Star Trek: Mission's End | |||
#1 - "Mission's End, Issue 1" | 9,352 | n/a | n/a |
#2 - "Mission's End, Issue 2" | 8,160 | -12.7% | -12.7% |
#3 - "Mission's End, Issue 3" | 8,337 | +2.2% | -10.9% |
#4 - "Mission's End, Issue 4" | 7,836 | -6.0% | -16.2% |
#5 - "Mission's End, Issue 5" | 7,551 | -3.6% | -19.3% |
Star Trek: Crew | |||
#1 - "Shakedown" | 9,168 | n/a | n/a |
#2 - "The Bottle" | 8,121 | -11.4% | -11.4% |
#3 - "Ghosts" | 8,537 | +5.1% | -6.9% |
#4 - "Shadows of the Past" | 8,144 | -4.6% | -11.2% |
#5 - "The Ends of Eternity" | 7,946 | -2.4% | -13.3% |
Star Trek: Alien Spotlight volume 2[4] | |||
#1 - "Alien Spotlight: Tribbles" | 7,370 | n/a | n/a |
#2 - "Alien Spotlight: Klingons" | 7,023 | -4.7% | -4.7% |
#3 - "Alien Spotlight: Romulans" | 7,431 | +5.8% | +0.8% |
#4 - "Alien Spotlight: Q" | 7,417 | -0.2% | +0.6% |
#5 - "Alien Spotlight: Cardassians" | 5,828 | -21.4% | -20.9% |
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | |||
#1 - "The Wrath of Khan, Issue 1" | 9,551 | n/a | n/a |
#2 - "The Wrath of Khan, Issue 2" | 9,092 | -4.8% | -4.8% |
#3 - "The Wrath of Khan, Issue 3" | 8,266 | -9.1% | -13.9% |
Spock: Reflections | |||
#1 - "Spock: Reflections, Issue 1" | 10,256 | n/a | n/a |
#2 - "Spock: Reflections, Issue 2" | 8,721 | -15.0% | -15.0% |
#3 - "Spock: Reflections, Issue 3" | 8,020 | -8.0% | -21.8% |
#4 - "Spock: Reflections, Issue 4" | 7,461 | -7.0% | -27.3% |
Star Trek: Nero | |||
#1 - "Nero, Number One" | 11,467 | n/a | n/a |
#2 - "Nero, Number Two" | 8,762 | -23.6% | -23.6% |
#3 - "Nero, Number Three" | 7,620 | -13.0% | -33.5% |
#4 - "Nero, Number Four" | 7,203 | -5.5% | -37.2% |
Romulans: Schism | |||
#1 - "Schism, Issue 1" | 7,873 | n/a | n/a |
#2 - "Schism, Issue 2" | 7,061 | -10.3% | -10.3% |
#3 - "Schism, Issue 3" | 6,625 | -6.2% | -15.9% |
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ghosts | |||
#1 - "Ghosts, Issue 1" | 6,918 | n/a | n/a |
#2 - "Ghosts, Issue 2" | 3,155[7] | -54.4% | -54.4% |
#3 - "Ghosts, Issue 3" | 5,777 | +83.1% | -16.4% |
#4 - "Ghosts, Issue 4" | 5,614 | -2.8% | -18.8% |
#5 - "Ghosts, Issue 5" | 5,356 | -4.6% | -22.6% |
Fool's Gold | |||
#1 - "Fool's Gold, Issue 1" | 6,623 | n/a | n/a |
#2 - "Fool's Gold, Issue 2" | 5,909 | -10.8% | -10.8% |
#3 - "Fool's Gold, Issue 3" | 5,378 | -9.0% | -18.8% |
#4 - "Fool's Gold, Issue 4" | 5,236 | -2.6% | -20.9% |
Star Trek: Captain's Log[4] | |||
#1 - "Captain's Log: Sulu" | 6,525 | n/a | n/a |
#2 - "Captain's Log: Harriman" | 5,610 | -14.0% | -14.0% |
#3 - "Captain's Log: Pike" | 6,038 | +7.6% | -7.5% |
#4 - "Captain's Log: Jellico" | 5,580 | -7.6% | -14.5% |
Star Trek: The Official Motion Picture Adaptation | |||
#1 - "Star Trek, Issue 1" | 6,436 | n/a | n/a |
#2 - "Star Trek, Issue 2" | 5,622 | -12.6% | -12.6% |
#3 - "Star Trek, Issue 3" | 5,256 | -6.5% | -18.3% |
#4 - "Star Trek, Issue 4" | 4,993 | -5.0% | -22.4% |
#5 - "Star Trek, Issue 5" | 5,090 | +1.9% | -20.9% |
#6 - "Star Trek, Issue 6" | 5,059 | -0.6% | -21.3% |
Leonard McCoy, Frontier Doctor | |||
#1 - "Weeds" | 7,292 | n/a | n/a |
#2 - "Error" | 6,450 | -11.5% | -11.5% |
#3 - "Medics" | 6,800 | +5.4% | -6.7% |
#4 - "Hosts/Scalpel" | 6,639 | -2.4% | -9.0% |
Burden of Knowledge | |||
#1 - "Uncertain Prescriptions" | 6,757 | n/a | n/a |
#2 - "A Failure to Communicate" | 5,823 | -13.8% | -13.8% |
#3 - "A Matter of Perspective" | 5,604 | -3.8% | -17.1% |
#4 - "The Burden of Knowledge" | 5,453 | -2.7% | -19.3% |
Khan: Ruling in Hell | |||
#1 - "The First Six Months" | 8,390 | n/a | n/a |
#2 - "Holding Out Hope" | 6,660 | -20.6% | -20.6% |
#3 - "Khan: Ruling in Hell, Issue 3" | 6,328 | -5.0% | -24.6% |
#4 - "Khan: Ruling in Hell, Issue 4" | 6,145 | -2.9% | -26.8% |
Star Trek: Infestation | |||
#1 - "Star Trek: Infestation, Issue 1" | 12,090 | n/a | n/a |
#2 - "Star Trek: Infestation, Issue 2" | 10,906 | -9.8% | -9.8% |
Footnotes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A prequel to Star Trek (2009), albeit set in the prime timeline.
- ↑ Treated as a separate release for sales purposes.
- ↑ Does not form part of the series proper.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Sales figures for an anthology work like Alien Spotlight or Captain's Log vary significantly, depending on the individual subject matter.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 This figure represents combined sales figures from May and June 2008. A problem with IDW deliveries to Diamond's distribution center saw this issue's release to stores on the US East Coast delayed by one week, taking it into June.
- ↑ This late March release appeared in April's sales charts. There is, therefore, the possibility of some sales in March that were below that month's Top 300 threshold of ~2,100 copies.
- ↑ This late December 2009 release appeared in January 2010's sales charts. There is the distinct possibility of additional sales in December that were below that month's Top 300 threshold of ~3,400 copies.
iTunes[]
In December 2008, it was announced that IDW would begin publishing comics in digital format, via Apple's iTunes Store, beginning with the first issue in the Best of Peter David reprint collection, "A Rude Awakening!". The remaining issues that make up that collection are to follow. [2] The individual issues of Star Trek: Countdown were also released via iTunes, with "Countdown, Number Three" and "Countdown, Number Four" being released on the same day as their physical counterparts – a first for the digital format. [3]
External links[]
- IDWPublishing.com – official web site
- IDW Second Stage article at TrekMovie.com
- IDW Publishing at Wikipedia
- IDW Publishing at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works