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Captain James T. Kirk
56 appearances · Silver Age · 1967–2024 · 2 key issues
Who is Captain James T. Kirk?
James Tiberius Kirk, a gifted tactician and natural leader from Riverside, Iowa, rose through Starfleet Academy to become the youngest captain in Federation history, taking command of the USS Enterprise on a mission of deep-space exploration and diplomacy.
Captain James T. Kirk is a comic book character who first appeared in Star Trek #1 (1967), with 56 appearances in our catalog.
Identity
Real name. James Tiberius Kirk
Powers. None (human); skilled starship commander, tactician, and hand-to-hand combatant
Affiliations. Starfleet; United Federation of Planets; commanding officer, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
★ First appearance
Star Trek #1
Top series
Mad (1952)
2 appearances
Star Trek (1989)
7 appearances
Showcase (1956)
1 appearance
Star Trek (1967)
4 appearances
TV21 & Joe 90
TV21 & Joe 90 (1969)
2 appearances
Star Trek: Year Five
Star Trek: Year Five (2019)
2 appearances
Star Trek (1984)
2 appearances
Star Trek (2011)
2 appearances
Star Trek Annual (1969)
2 appearances
Star Trek Year Four: Enterprise Experiment
Star Trek Year Four: Enterprise Experiment (2008)
2 appearances
Hundred Penny Press: Star Trek: Countdown
Hundred Penny Press: Star Trek: Countdown (2011)
1 appearance
Detective Comics (2011)
1 appearance
Covers through the years — 1967–2022
★ 1967 
1974 
★ 1977 
1987 
1988 
1992 
1996 ![Star Trek: The Next Generation -- The Gorn Crisis #[nn]](https://comicbooks-covers-449901518064-us-east-2.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/covers/openlibrary/1563897547.jpg)
2001 ![Star Trek the Manga: Shinsei Shinsei #[nn]](https://comicbooks-covers-449901518064-us-east-2.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/covers/openlibrary/1598167448.jpg)
2006 
2011 
2012 ![Star Trek: Manifest Destiny #[nn]](https://comicbooks-covers-449901518064-us-east-2.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/covers/openlibrary/9781631406348.jpg)
2016 
2022 Appearances
TV21 (1970)
Showcase (1956)
Star Trek: Dinosaur Planet [Book and Record Set] (1979)
Boffo Laffs (1986)
Star Trek Movie Special (1989)
Star Trek - The Modala Imperative (1991)
The Original Crew (1991)
Congorilla (1992)
Star Trek: Tests of Courage (1994)
Star Trek: Revisitations (1995)
Mad Star Wars Spectacular (1996)
Star Trek / X-Men (1996)
Rise of Apocalypse (1996)
Star Trek: Early Voyages (1997)
Star Trek: The Next Generation -- The Gorn Crisis (2001)
Star Trek the Manga: Shinsei Shinsei (2006)
Star Trek: The Manga Kakan ni Shinkou (2007)
Hundred Penny Press: Star Trek: Countdown (2011)
Star Trek Classics (2011)
Everyone Likes Pizza (2012)
Star Trek: Harlan Ellison's The City on the Edge of Forever, The Original Teleplay (2015)
Mad's Greatest Writers: Frank Jacobs (2015)
Star Trek: Manifest Destiny (2016)
Star Trek: Boldly Go (2017)
Star Trek vs. Transformers (2018)
Detective Comics (2011)
Dungeons & Dragons: Mindbreaker (2021)
Star Trek #400 (2022)
Star Trek #500 (2024)