Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Were the X-MEN creators watching BATTLESTAR GALACTICA in 1978?


There is a very famous sequence in Marvel's The Uncanny X-Men #146 (April 1981) where the super-villain Arcade brashly lights a match using Dr. Doom's armor to ignite the flame.  Is it worth mentioning that Lt. Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) did the same thing - three years earlier?  In the Battlestar Galactica episode ("Lost Planet of the Gods", Part 2), Starbuck lights a match using a Cylon's armor to ignite the flame.

Uncanny X-Men #146 (April 1981) - Arcade lights up via
Dr. Doom's armor.  ("It's nice ta know yore tin suit's good for something.)





Battlestar Galactica  ("Lost Planet of the Gods", Part 2); aired on Oct. 1, 1978)
 - Starbuck lights up via Cylon armor.


Marvel's BATTLESTAR GALACTICA #5 (July 1979) -
Starbuck lights up via Cylon armor in the
 comic book adaptation of "Lost Planet of the Gods"