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| Deathtrap! An issue of the Marvel Comics series. | ||
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| Issue No. | 3 | |
| Writer(s) | Roger McKenzie | |
| Illustrator(s) | {{{illustrator}}} | |
| Penciller(s) | Ernie Colon | |
| Inker(s) | Ernie Colon | |
| Colorist(s) | Marie Severin | |
| Letterer(s) | Jim Novak | |
| Editor(s) | Jim Shooter | |
| Collection Design | {{{designer}}} | |
| Cover Artist(s) | Rudy Nebres | |
| Adaptation of | Saga of a Star World (Part 3) | |
| Published | May 1979 | |
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| Collected in | Saga of a Star World | |
| Reprints | Marvel Super Special #8: Battlestar Galactica (Part 3) | |
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| Pages | {{{pages}}} | |
| ISBN | [[Special:Booksources/|]] | |
| Population | 0 Survivors | |
| Special | {{{special}}} | |
| Chronology | ||
| Previous | Next | |
| Exodus! | Deathtrap! | Into the Void |
| Purchase | ||
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| Available at Amazon.co.uk – Purchase | ||
| Available at Things From Another World - Purchase | ||
This comic is the last of three issues adapting the Original Series' "Saga of a Star World."
Plot
- The trio of Warriors, Captain Apollo and Lieutenants Boomer and Starbuck, are aided by Galactica in clearing the Cylon minefield in the Nova of Madagon.
- Athena reports that the Vipers are clearing a path a hundred maxims wide.
- After Tigh's report of clearing through the nova, Adama praises the Gods of Kobol. He orders the fighters recalled and the retraction of Galactica's radiation shields. In doing so, they behold their eyes on the dark world of Carillon.
- Some several hundred quadrons away, the Imperious Leader is informed that the survivors have not been found. The Leader is assured that the survivors' lack of provisions will result in their capture within their star system, and that they will wait for this to occur.
- Mineral ships and landram parties are dispatched to Carillon's dark surface.
- Starbuck and Boomer, as part of expedition one, are given coordinates to a potential caretaker operation sighted by Blue Squadron. In their landram, Starbuck is corrected by Boomer regarding the fact that they are seeing the surface of Carillon during its daytime period.
- In another landram some "millicentons away," Apollo instructs Boxey to keep an eye on a readout that will report tylium readings. With them are Serina and Muffey II.
Notes
General
Differences
- This last act of the storyline differs greatly from the end of "Saga of a Star World," notably:
- The comic eschews the love triangle between Athena, Cassiopeia and Starbuck, and as such neither woman is actually seen on Carillon.
- The structure of Ovions' society is greatly explained. Further, the languatron is nowhere to be seen, as the Ovions can speak in the human tongue.
- Although Adama and Tigh send ersatz Warriors to Carillon to fool "whoever would be watching" into believing that the Colonials had relaxed their military defenses, the sub-plot where Sire Uri awards the Gold Cluster to Apollo, Boomer and Starbuck does not exist. As such, when Starbuck and Boomer uncover the ersatz Warriors and attempt to pursue, they are not in ceremonial garb. Furthermore, Uri is only mentioned, but would later be a continuing foil throughout the Marvel storyline.
- The epilogue featuring Baltar's salvation at the hands of the Cylons is absent, although integrated into Into the Void.
Publication History
This issue was reprinted in Star Heroes: Winter Special (UK) Vol. 1 #1 (October 1979 CE), and later republished in Saga of a Star World (June 2005 CE).