"The End" Week: Battlestar Galactica #23!

Even though I watched the show, and was already deeply hooked on comics by Star Wars, I honestly can't recall if I so much as flipped through an issue of this series when it was on the racks! This is an issue I'd been looking to find for "The End" for years now, and finally: from 1981, Battlestar Galactica #23, "The Last Hiding Place" Story and pencils by Walt Simonson, inks by Klaus Janson.

No Cylons this issue, as the Colonial Warriors are working the case of some food pirates, which might be related to the seeming disappearance of 47 of the 50 richest surviving colonists. Duh, of course they're hoarding goods, and willing to commit murder to cover it up. The parasites don't quite get what's coming to them (a trip out an airlock) but they do get brought down: charmingly, semi-regular lug Jolly gets a heroic turn and the girl in the end! And, a pathway to earth might have been discovered, and the Galactica sets out for it...

Marvel was of course chasing that Star Wars high, and aside from maybe a bump at the beginning, I'm not sure this series ever got close. It ran longer than Marvel's first Star Trek, though.