Friday, 27 April 2012

1983: BATTLE OF THE PLANETS TV COMIC HOLIDAY SPECIAL

Back to 1983 and Zoltar's fiendish and overly-complicated plans to conquer Earth. The about-to-expire weekly TV COMIC was running a weekly BATTLE OF THE PLANETS strip and published this one-shot spin-off, using US reprints.

BOTP aired on BBC ONE for several years at the turn of the decade.  It was, of course, a reworking of Japan's seventies series GATCHAMAN.

The Holiday Special cover is original, not quite on-model, and uncredited.


ENEMY WITHIN originally appeared in Whitman's US BATTLE OF THE PLANETS 7.

ISSUE 7
June 1980

GHOST SHIP originally appeared in Whitman's US BATTLE OF THE PLANETS 6.

ISSUE 6
June 1980

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1 comment:

  1. Briony C15 May 2013 at 00:28

    TV Comic did produce a second BOTP special in 1984. It reprinted Whitman 2 and 4. There was also a TV Comic holiday special somewhere that reprinted Whitman 3 (minus a few panels, no doubt trimmed down to fit into the special).

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