Some time between 1980 and 1982, I sent a fan letter to Paramount, asking for information about Star Trek II, and got about 100 copies of a color flyer, the kind you used to see on the freebie tables at movie houses.
I’m only guessing
about how many there were. These flyers
are on glossy card-stock paper, and the stack was at least one inch thick.
I’m sharing
them here as a kind of coda to August’s exhaustive (and exhausting) survey of
the movie.
Note that the
film wasn’t called “Star Trek II,” simply “Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan.”
Also you see
that I had this flyer autographed by George Takei and Jimmy Doohan, at various
appearances.
Once upon a
time, I had so many copies of this flyer that I was free to mutilate them. I amputated part of page 4 and also took it
with me to various media cons. As you
can see, I had this one with me when I encountered Walter Koenig. Since Koenig’s signature isn’t on the complete
flyer I scanned, evidently I only had the fragment with me at the time.
Once upon a
day in the mid 1980s, I went around to various OKC movie houses and asked the
bosses if they had any leftover sci-fi promo stuff. I ended up with several pounds of
black-and-white newspaper-ad layouts, and variations of same, for several
movies, including a buttload of different ads for Star Trek II. But as far as I can find, those 11-x-17-size
sheets are long gone.
On the bright
side ... see you Thursday, and be back here on Saturday, October 1st,
for the first instalment of ...
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