#allan asherman

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Gary Seven, Roberta Lincoln and Isis by George Pérez

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Allan Asherman, longtime DC staffer and keeper of the DC library has passed away. On a personal level, Asherman will always hold a place in my heart as the voice of Superman in the Fisher Price Superman and Justice League Book and Tape productions. Take a listen here:

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Beowulf 6 Issue Complete Set (1975) by DC Comics

Written and drawn by various.

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Maybe Allan Asherman's name isn't a well known as others, even among Trekker circles, but he was something of a pioneer when it came to writing books about the history of Star Trek. He wasn't the first to do this (take a bow, Bjo Trimble and Stephen Whitfield), yet for many his classic Star Trek Compendium was (and even in the Internet/Memory-Alpha wiki era, remains) an invaluable resource.

Outside Trek, Asherman was also known as the main librarian/archive holder for DC Comics and his somewhat eclectic career included work as diverse as writing an adaptation of Steven Spielberg's obscure film 1941. RIP

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Around the Tubes

Some comic news, and a review, from around the web in our morning roundup #comics #comicbooks

It’s one of two new comic book days! What are you all excited for? What do you plan on getting? Sound off in the comments below. While you think about that, here’s some comic news and a review from around the web to start the day. CBR – DC Librarian Allan Asherman Passes Away At 76 – Our thoughts are with his family, friends, and colleagues. Kotaku – ‘All Of Sony Systems’ Allegedly Hacked By…

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"Men! They're nothing but trouble!

But on Paradise Island ancient law forbids any man to ever set foot here!

I'd be free of men forever!"

Taken from Supergirl #9 ‘The Super-Amazon!’ (1973) by Cary Bates, Art Saaf and Vince Colletta. Edited by Robert Kanigher and Allan Asherman.

SUPERGIRL (1972) #9 written by Cary Bates art by Art Saaf

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Mike Hammer - Bride & Doom

Spoilers ahead if you haven't seen this. But go search it on YouTube. There's a high def version that has been uploaded in the past year that is awesome!

This is my favorite non-western heavy role. Just watch him become more and more deranged in this scene:

This is from the Star Trek Interview Book by Allan Asherman

So, so good. I love it.

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: The Star Trek Compendium.

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The Star Trek Interview Book - Allan Asherman - Pocket Books 1988 - Trade Paperback

The Star Trek Interview Book First Edition - By: Allan Asherman Used - Trade Paperback (TPB) - 278 Pages Pocket Books 1988   Read the full article

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Art by Kathy Bushman, Allan Asherman, DEA, Jack Gaughan

Some art from the fanzine 'Spockanalia Vol 3' (1968), edited by Devra Langsam & Sherna Comerford

Archive.org link: https://archive.org/details/SpockanaliaV3/mode/2up

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Apollo by George Pérez

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29.11.2022

Another Star Trek book - I've been buying quite a few lately, so I will read them over the next month or two

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BHOC: SUPERMAN #323

Bought this issue of SUPERMAN in the same weekly 7-11 run as the MARVEL’S GREATEST COMICS issue I wrote about yesterday. That’s a nice cover by Jose Luis Garcia Lopez, an incredibly talented artist who worked for DC for decades but who has been somewhat overlooked–primarily because he did relatively few regular stretches on titles, and instead was often spending much of his time doing licensing…

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So, it looks like Jocelyn is Fanon because of Shadows on the Sun: Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed but "non-canon" Star Trek stuff, doesn't have a full plot overview of Shadows of the Sun, but it does have entries for some of its main characters, including Jocelyn Treadway, neé Jocelyn Abigail Darnell, aka Leonard McCoy's ex-wife and the mother of his daughter, Joanna.

According to McCoy's Apocrypha section on Memory Alpha, McCoy's ex-wife has been called:

Joann Zauber (The Real McCoy, Thomas Warkentin, 1980)

Gillian (Who's Who in Star Trek 1, Allan Asherman, 1987)

Jocelyn Treadway (Shadows on the Sun, Michael Jan Friedman, 1993)

Miriam (Star Trek: Starship Creator, Kimberly A. Kindya and David A. Mack, 1998)

Pamela Branch (Bones, Mike Johnson & F. Leonard Johnson, 2013)

So I guess it's dealer's choice.

Given Uhura's first name only became 100% canon as Nyota in the 2009 movie, and wasn't even licensed extended universe canon until 1982, it doesn't surprise me that McCoy's wife's name isn't canon canon.

I love Star Trek

I was looking for the name of McCoy’s wife that he had his daughter with for a story I’m writing. I did not find it. But what I did find, is this:

How on earth (or any other planet for that matter) do we know about McCoy’s famous recipe FOR BAKED BEENS BUT NOT THE NAME OF HIS WIFE?

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Happy First Contact Day!

April 5th, 2063 is the day that Vulcans make first contact with Humans in the Star Trek TV franchise! Although this is a future event from a TV series, we can still the celebrate the meaning behind exploration and meeting new people, at least vicariously in these days of coronavirus isolation. To celebrate the day people hold first contact parties and watch the episodes where first contact day is mentioned. In the Star Trek:Voyager episode ‘Homestead’ they celebrate the 315th anniversary of the day with cheese pierogies and rock and roll music. In the Original Series episode ‘Metamorphosis’ we meet Zefram Cochrane who captained the first ship intro warp and was present at first contact with the Vulcans. There are a variety of other episodes, and Star Trek Movies, that can be watched to celebrate the day as well!

Our celebration of the day comes from a comic book set in our collection called the Who’s Who in Star Trek, written by Allan Asherman, with cover art by Howard Chaykin. Special Collections has a huge variety of comic books and these two are first editions printed in March 1987 and April 1987 by DC Comics. They were produced for the 20th anniversary of the creation of Star Trek by Gene Roddenberry, and were meant to act as an encyclopedia of characters. The character information provided in the volumes is not perfectly aligned to the canon universe because editor Bob Greenberger allowed for creative license in its creation. To highlight first contact day we are showing a selection of the species and characters that were a part of it!

-- Claire, Special Collections Graduate Fieldworker

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Director Nicholas Meyer (with trademark cigar) addresses a group of background players in the torpedo bay set while filming Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan.

Prior to directing The Wrath of Khan, Meyer had previously written a screenplay for The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, based on his own novel of the same name, and handled screenwriter and directorial duties on the time travel epic Time After Time, based on a college friend’s uncompleted novel. 

When asked by Allen Asherman about how he was contacted about directing the second Star Trek feature film, Meyer recounted: “The project was offered to me by a woman named Karen Moore. She was not empowered to confirm the offer; she was the first person who broached the subject. I’ve known her since she was about twelve...she’s a friend of mine, and she was at my house for dinner. She was working at Paramount Pictures at the time, and she said there were two very nice fellows making this movie, harve Bennett and Bob Sallin, and they had a good script...would I be interested. Then I went in to meet Harve and Bob, and got along very well. Then they showed me the first movie and I thought, ‘I’ve got to do this, because I’ve got to be able to do as good as this.’”

(Quote source: Allan Asherman’s The Making of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, published in 1982 by Pocket Books.)

Photo scanned from my personal collection.