Ranking all 10 covers of the 'Welcome Back, Kotter' comic book
In the 1970s, merchandisers did not wait long to cash in on popular television shows. Welcome Back, Kotter premiered in the fall of 1975 and by 1976 rabid teenage fans of the show could purchase Kotter board games, action figures and lunch boxes. DC Comics, which was owned by Warner Communications, rode the wave of Barbarinomania and whipped up a comic book adaptation of Kotter, a show distributed by Warner Bros. Television, and published it from November 1976 to April 1978.
Principal Woodman makes an appearance. Driving his (tiny) car out of his office? Which is a portal to Washington, D.C.?