Almost Comics--But Not Quite

A Golden All-Star Book from Western (as a Golden Press imprint) is a storybook--prose and illustrations. Online sellers have mistaken it for a comic book--not only is it comic book size in dimensions and number of pages (36 including covers), most of the writers and artists were working at Western's Gold Key comics at the time. The exceptions as far as known credits go: Mary A. Mintz, whose only comic book credit is a story in Spidey Super Stories at Marvel, and Bill Ochs, credited on no comic books. (The Greatest here, by the way, is a novelization of the Muhammad Ali movie.)

These two covers are the only paintings among almost all photo ones (Fat Albert is line art). I couldn't say who the painters are.

A Golden All-Star Book — 1977 — 59¢

6413	WELCOME BACK KOTTER
	w: Arnold Drake  a: Mel Crawford
	Kotter for Sale
	Wake Me to Say Goodbye
	Down on the Farm
6414	STARSKY & HUTCH
	w: George Kashdan  a: Jack Sparling
	Brother Avenger
	No Time for Crime
	A Mixed-Up Murder
6415	DONNIE & MARIE
	w: Wallace I. Green  a: José Delbo
	If This Is Tuesday...
	Some Vacation!
6416	ISIS
	w: Steve Skeates  a: Sparling
	The Discovery
	The Bermuda Triangle
	Hard Lesson
6417	THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
	w: Mary A. Mintzer  a: Alden McWilliams
	The Captive Crowd
	Aunt May's Crusade
	The Taking of Manhattan Isle!
6418	WELCOME BACK KOTTER
	w: Drake  a: Crawford
	The Unteachables
	Barbarino's in Love!
	Kotter King of Krime
6419	WELCOME BACK KOTTER
	w: Drake  a: Sparling
	Julie vs. the Gerbils
	"Kotter's Pet"
	Dreamboat Woodman
6420	CHARLIE'S ANGELS
	w: Kashdan  a: Sparling
6421	THE GREATEST
	w: Bill Ochs  a: John Celardo
	The Greatest
6422	SPACE: 1999
	w: Mintzer  a: Frank Bolle
	The Return of the Metamorph
	Queen Brain
6423	STARSKY & HUTCH
	w: Kashdan  a: Crawford
6424	DONNIE & MARIE
	w: Gary Poole  a: Delbo
	"Someone's Following Us!"
	Pranks Aplenty!
	Lost and Found
6425	FAT ALBERT AND THE COSBY KIDS
	w: Drake  cover & a: Winslow Mortimer
	The Night We Spent in Spooky House
	Save Our Clubhouse
	Happy Anniversary

1978 — 69¢

[no #]	THE NEW KROFFT SUPERSHOW
	w: Mintzer  a: Mortimer
	Wonderbug in Honk Meets a Quack
	Kaptain Kool and the Kongs [1-pager]
	Bigfoot and Wildboy in The Abominable Snowman
	Kaptain Kool and the Kongs [1-pager]
	Magic Mongo in The Three Wishes