1978: STARBURST Issue 2

From March 1978: STARBURST issue 2.

Continuing the SPACE CRUISER theme from yesterday (scroll back a couple of posts...), here's the same artwork re-purposed for the cover of the not-yet-a-Marvel-mag second issue of Britain's answer to STARLOG.  

You can find this month's issue (yep, after a hiatus, it's still going) in WH SMITH right now... although, some branches seem to insist on putting it behind the till (London's Oxford Street branch are particularly dopey on this front... they put the behind-the-counter shelves at floor height to further reduce the chances of anyone seeing them) on the spurious grounds of "people nick them".  I'm not sure why the chain has concluded some mags are infinitely more nickable than others but I don't work in loss prevention... or store design. 

1978: SPACE CRUISER (Space Battleship Yamato) Poster Art

From 1978: poster art for SPACE CRUISER, the theatrical release (making the most of the post-STAR WARS hullabaloo for all things space) of Japanese animated show SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO.  

The movie spliced together material from the TV show, bridged with some new material.  It was released in Japan the previous August and rolled-out internationally the following year.

This appeared in STARBURST magazine to accompany a feature on the movie.  I have no recollection of the film getting a UK theatrical release.  Possibly only on a very small number of screens...?