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Battlestar Galactica                                                                                         Comics Lot
The Whitman Reprint Editions featuring the “Pilot Movie Adaptation” reformatted from Marvel Super Special #8 (1979).  Awesome!!
Writer: Roger McKenzie
Artists: Ernie Colon, George Roussos, Bob Sharen & Mary Severin
Cover #1 by: Dave Cockrum & Bob McLeod
Cover #2 by: Jeff Aclin
Cover #3 by: Rudy Nebres

Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction franchise created by Glen A. Larson. The franchise began with the original television series in 1978. Battlestar Galactica was produced in the wake of the success of the 1977 film Star Wars. It was later followed by a short-run sequel series (Galactica 1980), a line of book adaptations, original novels, comic books, a board game, video games, and other re-imagined versions of Battlestar Galactica television series from 2003 even to recently.

The comic book Battlestar Galactica, based on the ABC television series of the same name, was published monthly by Marvel Comics from March 1979 through January 1981, and lasted 23 issues.

Marvel Comics’ began its adaptation of Battlestar Galactica with Marvel Super Special #8, a magazine format comic written by Roger McKenzie and drawn by Ernie Colón which was released as a tie-in to the start of the series. The comic adaptation was based on an early script of the three-hour TV series premiere “Saga of a Star World”. Its success led Marvel to print a regular monthly comic depicting the adventures of the ragtag fleet. The direct adaptation of the series continued in issues #4 and #5 which chronicled the adventures depicted in the two part television episode “Lost Planet of the Gods”. Then with issue #6, the TV adaptations ceased, and Marvel’s team began to create new stories about the characters of the Battlestar Galactica universe, picking up from where issue #5 left off. Marvel’s own vision of the Battlestar Galactica did deviate somewhat from the televised adventures series and unlike both the 1978 & 2004 television series, had a planned ending, with a final two part story of issues #22 and #23 bringing the Battlestar Galactica saga to an end.

In a distant part of the universe, a human civilization has extended to a group of planets known as the Twelve Colonies, to which they have migrated from their ancestral homeworld of Kobol. The Twelve Colonies have been engaged in a lengthy war with a cybernetic race known as the Cylons, whose goal is the extermination of the human race. The Cylons offer peace to the humans, which prove to be a ruse. With the aid of a human named Baltar, the Cylons carry out a massive attack on the Twelve Colonies and on the Colonial Fleet of starships that protect them. These attacks devastate the Colonial Fleet, lay waste to the Colonies, and virtually destroy their populations. Scattered survivors flee into outer space aboard a ragtag array of available spaceships. Of the entire Colonial battle fleet, only the Battlestar Galactica, a gigantic battleship and spacecraft carrier, appears to have survived the Cylon attack. Under the leadership of Commander Adama, the Galactica and the pilots of “Viper fighters” lead a fugitive fleet of survivors in search of the fabled thirteenth colony known as Earth.

The Whitman Reprint Editions are distinguished by the “diamond w/ $ & #” in the top left corner of each comic. Whitman only reprinted the first 3 issues which adapt the 1979 Battlestar Galactica Pilot Movie.

Story/Spoilers
In part #1, “Annihilation!”, In a distant time and place, a terrible war was waged between man and machine…the humans lost. Now, guided by their last surviving warship – the mighty Battlestar Galactica – a handful of survivors travel through space in search of the lost home of their ancestors, a shining planet known through ancient records, a planet called Earth. Count Baltar betrays the Twelve Colonies to the Cylons as the Cylons betray human hopes for peace in a sneak attack which destroys most of the human fleet. Then the Cylons launch all-out attack on Caprica and the rest of the Colonial homeworld. Following a devastating attack by the evil Cylons, the last vestiges of humanity are forced to band together. The Battlestar Galactica survives commanded by Admiral Adama. The Battlestar Galactica is forced to flee along any and all survivors of the Colonies. And now Admiral Adama leads an exodus of human survivors… the Battlestar Galactica and a cobbled together civilian fleet, to a legendary “shining planet” planet known only as… Earth.

Issue #1 adapts episode 1 “Saga of a Star World – Part 1” of the original Battlestar Galactica TV show that aired on September 17, 1978.

In issue #2, “Exodus!”, The last survivors of the human race are on an exodus / quest across the galaxy in search of their ancestral home, a planet called Earth. But a race of machines, the Cylons, is hunting them down and will not stop until every last human has been exterminated! And if that were not trouble enough, the crew of the Battlestar Galactica and the remaining survivors also are faced with dwindling food stores and a threat to Commander Adama’s leadership. But when it’s learned that Sire Uri and the Club Elite are hoarding food from other survivors, Apollo and Boomer take charge and confront Sire Uri.

Issue #2 continues to adapt episode 1 “Saga of a Star World – Part 2” of the original Battlestar Galactica TV show that aired on September 17, 1978.

Finally in issue #3, “Deathtrap!”, The Cylons have laid a deadly trap and not even the brave crew of the Battlestar Galactica may be able to save the colony this time! While searching for a way to replenish the human fleet’s dwindling food supply, the crew of the Battlestar Galactica comes across a mysterious pleasure colony on the planet Carillon. What sinister secrets could the extraterrestrial Ovions be hiding, and how are they connected to the Cylons?

Issue #3 concludes the 3 part movie/series TV pilot adaptation of episode 1 “Saga of a Star World – Part 3” of the original Battlestar Galactica TV show that aired on September 17, 1978.

Comics lot reprint/collects: Battlestar Galactica (1979) Issues #1-3.  Marvel Comics

Comics lot contains: Battlestar Galactica (Whitman Reprint Editions – 1979) Issues #1-3.  Marvel Comics / Whitman

Comics are bagged & boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

All First Printings
Publisher: Marvel Comics / Whitman
Publication Date: 1979
Format per comic: FC, 32 pages, Comic, 10.25″ x 6.5″
UPC: None Stated

Collectible Entertainment note: Comics 1,2,3 are in Fine + to Very Fine condition.  Beautiful Set!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Battlestar Galactica collector and/or enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Very Highly Recommended.

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