Manic Monday--Suprise Crossover!!

And then there was that time that Red Hulk guest-starred on Battlestar Galactica:

It was such a big deal, it was even a 2-parter:

OK, OK, it wasn't Red Hulk (although, the idea of a monstrous Thunderbolt Ross taking on Commander Adama and crew is intriguing, in a fanfic sort of way).

But the beauty part? This wasn't even a Battlestar: Galactica story--at least not originally! Marvel's Tarzan book had been cancelled a few months earlier, and according to GCD, one of the scripts they had intended to use for Lord Greystoke "was reworked into a Battlestar Galactica story when Marvel's Tarzan title was cancelled."

So, really, it was a Tarzan/Battlestar: Galactica crossover. Who the hell needs fanfic??

Maybe Marvel has some leftover ROM scripts laying around that they could make into, oh, I don't know, a Stephen King comic book...

Marvel's Battlestar: Galactica #17 & #18 were from 1980, with covers by Bill Sienkiewicz and Michael Golden, respectively; written by Walt Simonson (plot) and Steven Grant (plot & script), drawn by Simonson & Klaus Janson (#17) & Sal Buscema and Janson (#18). Whew.

Bold Fashion Choices--About A Year Too Late

From Vampirella #99 (1981) (click to embiggen to full awesomeness):

Wow.

From the lack of any specific mention of Battlestar: Galactica (not to mention the lack of any copyright disclaimer...ahem...), this was clearly someone trying to glom onto the red-hot public fever for BSG merchandise with unauthorized knock-offs.

Which is weird, because this is more than a year after the much disdained Galactica 1980 was canceled, pretty much disproving any wide-spread public desire for BSG.

So really, these guys were willing to risk a lawsuit from Universal to market their "space jackets" as worn by "some of your favorite T.V. characters?" In 1980? After Galactica 1980?!? Someone obviously had a very full warehouse of jackets after betting (wrongly) on the revival of Galactica fever.

Then again, these guys weren't to up-to-date in their other references, either, touting "adventures from the disco" more than a year after Funkytown, disco's last gasp. As if trendy discotheques were ever where nerds went to show their cosplay creds...

Still, what do I know? Maybe in late 1981, there were hordes of be-jacketed Colonial Warrior wannabes flooding the floors of still-quietly-thriving discos across the nation.

Oh, that's a bunch of felgercarb....

Absolute Proof Of Entropy

Somebody please tell me this is just an early April Fool's Day joke.

Then again, if it can bring Dirk Benedict back...

...how could we resist??