Here's a nice - if unfortunately small - scan of artist
Bob Larkin's original painting for the wraparound cover of
Marvel Super Special #8, featuring the comics adaptation of the
Battlestar Galactica premiere film, "Saga Of A Star World." The colors here are much nicer than they appeared on the magazine cover, where there was an overly pastel tint to everything (at least on my copy and on the scans I found online). If anyone finds a bigger scan of this original painting, send it my way, okay?
Interestingly, Marvel printed two variant editions of this particular
Super Special comic - an oversized tabloid edition, which featured a line-art version of this painting, drawn by
Rick Bryant, and the regular, magazine-sized edition, which was graced with this painting. (And the story was reprinted again, in three parts, in the
monthly Battlestar Galactica comic.)
And add to that the version I have - the rarer variation of the treasury reprinted by "Modern Publishing" with the Marvel logo replaced by an "MP" on the cover.
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The original magazine-sized Super Special (which featured color separations shot directly from hand-colored stats using the "grayline method") also had dialogue and art differences from the Treasury edition-sized reprint because it was based on earlier drafts of the pilot script.
ReplyDeleteThe version done for the Treasury-sized book was used in the comic book and papeback reprints (with modifications to accommodate format differences.)
Not only were there differences between the Super Special, Treasury and paperback, Marvel ended up entirely redoing much of the art for the first three issues of the regular monthly comic.
ReplyDeleteI love the art work for the oversized Marvel Adaption.Thank You Chris for posting!
ReplyDeleteIs this the one that is based on the Theatrical Version where Baltar is executed. I remember having that one when I was 9.
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