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Posted by Transmute Jun on 05-01-2012 at 16:16:

At least we know the Brits mess up their comics just as much as the Americans did in those Gold Key ones! The quality of the drawing seems to be better here, though.

Yep, Princess is blonde. And Zark somehow looks more... round... not sure why.

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Posted by Becky Rock on 06-01-2012 at 00:06:

Now we know where the helmet designs for the OAV came from with the chin coverage.

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Posted by amethyst on 06-01-2012 at 00:31:

Is it just me, or did they draw Jason to look like Micky Dolenz?

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Posted by Transmute Jun on 06-01-2012 at 01:09:

LOL, Amethyst, I hadn't noticed that, but your'e right!

Becky, I don't think Tiny has a chin cover, but the rest certainly seem to!

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Posted by UnpublishedWriter on 06-01-2012 at 09:21:

I think the OAV people got their helmet idea from modern snowboarding or motorcycle helmets. Somewhere, I stumbled over a picture of a snowboarding helmet, and noted its resemblance the headgear in both the OAV and Casshern Sins.

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Posted by lborgia88 on 06-01-2012 at 19:51:

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Originally posted by Transmute Jun
Yep, Princess is blonde.

I think the makers of this comic got duped by that sneaky Eva Douglas!

Posted by Becky Rock on 06-01-2012 at 22:25:

That's possible.

I wonder if that's where Jane Lebak got her idea for her blonde G-6 Susan?

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Posted by Transmute Jun on 08-01-2012 at 16:38:

And the story continues. What do you guys think of Zoltar and the Luminous One? And we can see that everyone except Tiny does seem to have chin guards.

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Posted by KT1972 on 08-01-2012 at 17:09:

Nope, I give up.... what were they thinking?

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Posted by UnpublishedWriter on 08-01-2012 at 18:01:

There was a giant, flying, robot hand in an episode of Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot.

For some reason, that thought popped into my head.

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Posted by amethyst on 08-01-2012 at 18:40:

I'm beginning to think that as bad as Gold Key was, there is worse out there. Hiding 2

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Posted by Transmute Jun on 08-01-2012 at 18:48:

You never know, until you start digging... Wink

Based on the 'next week' comment at the bottom, I'm wondering if these were run in UK newspapers?

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Posted by KT1972 on 08-01-2012 at 19:01:

I really can't remember seeing these at all, most likely featured in some "boys" magazine, that steriotypically I wouldn't have had access to.. being a girl and all that!!! I may be wrong and an edition that I will remember may be posted at a later date!!

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Posted by Becky Rock on 08-01-2012 at 19:25:

Ans we haven't seen the team out of uniform yet. I'm afraid to.

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Posted by Transmute Jun on 08-01-2012 at 19:32:

The civvies aren't *too* bad. They remind me a bit of the Gatch II civvies.

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Posted by Transmute Jun on 08-01-2012 at 23:51:

Okay, I did a little Googling and discovered this on Wikipedia.

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A Battle of the Planets comic strip ran in the British TV Comic. The TV Comic issues which feature the Battle of the Planets strip run from #1530 (17 April 1981) to #1671 (30 December 1983). TV Comic also reprinted some of the Gold Key stories for two Battle of the Planets holiday specials and one TV Comic holiday special. There was also a Battle of the Planets annual which reprinted some of the Gold Key stories.

Issues 1530 to 1671 would imply that there were 142 'episodes'.... which means I don't have them all. The 2 pages I've posted are one issue's worth of comic. I only have 52 'episodes', which is the equivalent of one year's worth, assuming that they ran once a week. Now they say that some of the Gold Key comics were reprinted, but even so, there were only 10 of those... although granted, the comic books were a lot longer than one of these weekly serials!

So there nay be some out there that I don't have!

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Posted by lborgia88 on 09-01-2012 at 05:32:

Zoltar looks about right, but what did they do to the Luminous One?? He looks like a sliced ham with eyes!

Had a chuckle at Jason's "Our missiles are useless!" line -doesn't Joe rant something very similar in Gatch?

I think Keyop is more than just numb there in the final panel -maybe the muscles he needs to be able to breathe aren't working in his case?

Posted by Transmute Jun on 09-01-2012 at 15:27:

LOL, LB! Keyop is definitely making a weird face in that last panel... but he doesn't need to breathe! He's an android!

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Posted by Becky Rock on 10-01-2012 at 00:14:

And he looks like one on that picture.

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Posted by amethyst on 10-01-2012 at 05:37:

Well when we see it in fanfiction and discussions, at least we now know the source.

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