Gold Key Comics facts for kids

Quick facts for kids
Gold Key Comics

Founded	1962
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	Poughkeepsie, New York
Publication types	Comic books
Imprints	Whitman Comics
Owner(s)	Western Publishing

Gold Key Comics was an imprint of American company Western Publishing, created for comic books distributed to newsstands. Also known as Whitman Comics, Gold Key operated from 1962 to 1984.

Titles include

Original series

• Baby Snoots
• Brothers of the Spear (originally a backup series in Tarzan)
• The Close Shaves of Pauline Peril
• Doctor Solar
• Golden Comics Digest
• Grimm's Ghost Stories
• Jungle Twins
• The Little Monsters
• M.A.R.S. Patrol Total War (initially Total War)
• Magnus, Robot Fighter
• Mighty Samson
• Mod Wheels
• Mystery Comics Digest
• The Occult Files of Dr. Spektor
• O.G. Whiz
• Space Family Robinson
• Tales of Sword and Sorcery Featuring Dagar the Invincible
• Tiger Girl
• Turok, Son of Stone
• Tragg and the Sky Gods
• UFO Flying Saucers (retitled UFO and Outer Space)
• Wacky Adventures of Cracky
• Wacky Witch

Licensed series

• Adam-12
• The Addams Family (based on the 1974 Hanna-Barbera animated series)
• Astro Boy
• The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan
• The Banana Splits
• Battle of the Planets
• The Beagle Boys (Walt Disney's)
• Beep Beep the Road Runner
• Beetle Bailey
• Bonanza
• Boris Karloff's Tales of Mystery (based upon the TV series Thriller)
• Buck Rogers
• Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
• Bugs Bunny
• Bullwinkle and Rocky
• Chilly Willy
• Daffy Duck
• Dark Shadows
• Doc Savage (was to tie into an ultimately unproduced movie)
• Donald Duck (Walt Disney's)
• Ellery Queen
• Family Affair
• Fireball XL5
• Flash Gordon
• The Flintstones
• The Funky Phantom
• The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
• The Gallant Men
• The Green Hornet
• Hanna-Barbera Fun-In
• Happy Days
• Have Gun, Will Travel
• The Hardy Boys (based on the Filmation cartoon series)
• Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch!
• Honey West
• Hoppity Hooper
• H.R. Pufnstuf
• I Spy
• Korak, Son of Tarzan
• Happy Days
• Huey, Dewey and Louie, Junior Woodchucks
• The Inspector (Pink Panther spinoff)
• John Steed & Emma Peel (based on The Avengers TV series and retitled to avoid confusion with Marvel Comics' superhero title of the same name)
• Kimba the White Lion
• Krofft Supershow
• Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp
• Land of the Giants
• Lidsville
• Little Lulu
• The Lone Ranger
• Looney Tunes
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
• Mickey Mouse (Walt Disney's)
• Microbots
• Mighty Mouse
• Moby Duck (Walt Disney's)
• The Munsters
• My Favorite Martian
• The Phantom
• The Pink Panther
• Popeye the Sailor
• Porky Pig
• Ripley's Believe It or Not! with three subtitles: "True War Stories" (#1 and #5), "True Demons & Monsters" (#7, #10, #19, #22, #25, #26 and #29) and "True Ghost stories" (remaining numbers) - not to be confused with the three issue Harvey Comic of 1953.
• Secret Agent (based upon the TV series Danger Man)
• Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (retitled Scooby-Doo Mystery Comics)
• Star Trek
• Supercar
• Super Goof (Walt Disney's)
• Tarzan
• The Three Stooges
• The Time Tunnel
• Tom and Jerry
• Top Cat
• Tennessee Tuxedo
• Tweety and Sylvester
• The Twilight Zone
• Uncle Scrooge
• Underdog
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
• Wacky Races
• Walt Disney Comics Digest
• Walt Disney's Comics and Stories
• Walt Disney's Showcase
• Where's Huddles?
• The Wild Wild West
• Woody Woodpecker
• Yosemite Sam (and Bugs Bunny)