October 28, 2005
Battlestar Friday SUPER HAPPY MAGAZINE RETROSPECTIVE ~ 10.28.05
Over a week ago my friend Tom stopped by for a visit and together we dug into my personal magazine vault. We found all of these magazines featuring Battlestar Galactica in one box. This week I give you a retrospective of these magazines and their covers. I was so into BSG that I bought every magazine that featured the show on its cover. I subscribed to Starlog from 1977 through August of 1990.
People Weekly Magazine, October 2, 1978
I love the look on Starbuck's face, and check out the bling around his neck! Is he trying to be Mr. T?
US Magazine, October 17, 1978. Starbuck looks even more 'surprised.'
Famous Monsters Magazine, Nov. 1978
Issue 1, Battlestar Galactica Official Poster Magazine, Paradise Press, Inc. 1978
Fantastic Films, The magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in Cinema, December 1978. Yeah, this is how we got our movie & TV information before the advent of the Internet... paper magazines, and this one was published every other month! It was hell I tell ya, HELL!
Science Fantasy Film Classics, October 1978.
After issue 2, I don't recall ever seeing another issue of this Lamplight Studios, Inc. poster magazine. On the cover it says that it's a Starlog/Future publication. The copyright on it is 1978.
Starlog 17, October 1978. The first time Battlestar Galactica graces the cover of this most popular magazine.
Starlog 27, October 1979. The angel ship makes the cover!
Starlog 34, May 1980. The cover heralds the arrival of Galactica 1980. Earth is found, but can it be saved? Yes it can and a whole lot easier than the Galactica franchise.
Starlog 36, July 1980. The big scifi spectacular double issue. Galactica is still on the cover, but this would be the last time for a very long time.
I hope you enjoyed this look into the past of Battlestar Galactica as it appeared on the periodicals of the late seventies and 1980. So say we all!
Do they still even publish Starlog?
Posted by: Malnurtured Snay on October 27, 2005 11:01 PMGreat post!
and the answer is yes, http://www.starlog.com/
I was shocked too.
Posted by: mm on October 28, 2005 09:28 AMSee, this is how I like my science fiction. Capes, bling, cool laser guns that go "brrrzap," uniforms that aren't barely disguised military cammies and shiny metal bad guys. I don't care if the writing is good. I just want my cheese.
Posted by: Clark on October 28, 2005 11:01 AMClark: Yes, yes, YES! Well, okay, I do care if the writing is good. But dammit, I want my sci-fi to LOOK like sci-fi! Do the sets look like cardboard? That's because the ship is made of expansion-cast duranium foam. The costumes look uncomfortable, impractical, and flimsy? That's because they're made of recombinant Aldebaran seaweed fiber, and are beamed onto the wearer, eliminating the need for buttons, zippers, seams, or the need to be worn more than once.
Nobody thinks like this anymore.
Posted by: Thomas G. Atkinson on October 29, 2005 02:49 AMi used to live for battlestar
Posted by: carl on October 29, 2005 05:24 PM