Kenner a.k.a. Kenner Products (1946-2000) was a 20th century American toy company. Kenner released the Star Trek Kenner Comic Strips series in 1974.
Background
One of Kenner's toys was the Give-A-Show Projector, which used a flashlight to project strips of color slides onto a wall. It was sold along with a variety of comic strip stories featuring licensed characters. In 1974, two of its projector toys included Star Trek: The Original Series stories.
The British version of the toy had strips for Doctor Who and Planet of the Apes, the latter featuring Mark Lenard's character General Urko.
Stories
External links
- Kenner Products article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- Kenner's Give-A-Show Projector article at the Museum of Obsolete Media website.
- Kenner's Give-A-Show Projector article at the Retroland website.
- Kenner's Doctor Who Give-A-Show Projector article at The Tardis Data Core website.
- Kenner's Planet of the Apes Give-A-Show Projector article at the IMDF website.