Marvel Super Special #8
Ernie Colon is not very good with likenesses.

I'm not sure if this was actual dialogue from the show or not, but Zac says, "Just above the old moon, Cimtar." Old moon? What, did they build a new moon to take its place?
(There is so much bad dialogue here, but I suspect that most of it was actually in the show so I won't be commenting on it. However that one just stood out.)

Tigh says, "But I the president on monitor four."

The cards Starbuck is holding are rectangular rather than round.

Page, 14, panel 1. Tigh is colored white. (Ernie Colon also did the coloring.)

I haven't seen the show in years, but I seem to think that Lyra wasn't Boxey's real mom in the show, but here she is.

The best part of this "Super Special" is the interview with John Dykstra. They also have a couple of other text pieces in the middle that flesh out some things that I'm not sure were ever stated on the show.

Aliens And Robots (Text piece)
About the Cylons it says, "metal parts are transplanted into their bodies shortly after birth". Reminded me of that scene in the Borg nursery in Q Who? (NextGen ripping off Battlestar Galactica??? No, Gene! Say it isn't so?!?! 8-0)

Page 38. There is definitely some confusion over which drawing is supposed to be Starbuck & which is supposed to be Apollo. Good thing Boomer is black or it'd really be confusing.

Baltar, who had previously been drawn with hair, is suddenly bald.

Baltar is killed. Not like the TV show were he was led off after being sentenced to death (& then inexplicably was brought back at the end of the pilot). Here he is either beheaded or has his throat slashed. Did Baltar ever appear in any later issues of the comic?

In one of the text pieces the Ovion Queen was said to be a different color than the rest of her species, but here she is the same color.

Cassiopea is shown in an Ovion food bin, but is not seen for the rest of the issue (just a few pages & with Colon's art...). Did she ever appear in any later issues? I wonder if Cassiopea was supposed to die in the original script? Dykstra said the script was changed several times while making the pilot (which would explain why Baltar was sentenced to die, then came back).

The only Battlestar Galactica comic I ever saw is where the Cylons created a triangular energy beam between their Base Stars to trap the Galactica inside. (It didn't work)

I THINK it was called: "The Delta Triangle"

Actually Baltar dies in that fashion in the big screen release of the Galactica pilot, which was shown in Europe and Canada, the latter proving rather amusing when CTV here picked up the series. I think he dies in the novelisation as well. Presumably Larson and co. decided at some point that Baltar would make a good regular villian and edited the scene out for the tv release. Like many other comic and book adaptations of tv shows and movies the comic writers apparently weren't working with the final version of the material.

The regular issues of the BG comic series by Marvel started with a two-issue adaptation of the first two-part episodes... oh, nuts, I forgot the name... "The Lost Gods of Kobol" or something like that. Anyway, after that, the comic series consisted of original stories. Baltar did indeed appear in the "TLGoK" adaptation (as he had in the actual episodes), but the only time I remember him appearing in the rest of the comic series was in a flashback. (Actually, it was within "The Memory Machine'" a device Commander Adama was trapped inside for way too many issues in a vain attempt to recall the coordinates of the long-lost thirteenth colony--Earth--that he had briefly glimpsed on Kobol. Interesting concept milked out for far longer than it should have been.)
One story I remember was a Boomer solo adventure, where he encountered a straggling Colonial vessel that had managed to leave the decimated colonies and was trying to catch up to Galactica's Rag Tag Fleet. The ending was bitterly ironic, and the story (read by me when I was not quite a teenager) remained with me all these years.
I should probably go dig my comics out instead of throwing all this info at you just from memory, but that would probably take too long. (Not that I'd mind "wasting" time looking at my old comics!)

Well you don't have have to read them all in one sitting. Read a few today, read a few tomorrow, read a few the next day... ;-)

Pacing myself? Yeah, like that'll happen once the floodgate's open! ("Oh, hey I'm having fun... Oops! I'd better stop doing that and go clean the oven or something!" )

Issues 1-3 of Marvel's Galactica were an adaptation of the 3-hour pilot episode. This version features different art than the Super Special and makes many corrections to the script so it is more like the TV version. Issues 4-5 adapt the second two part episode "Lost Planet of the Gods". Issue 6 begins an all new storyline, "The Memory Machine": Adama enters a sort of virtual reality tank in order to recall the inscriptions about the 13th Tribe he glimpsed briefly in the pyramid on Kobol. While Adama is in the machine, Sire Uri attempts an armed mutiny and his troops damage the machine's controls, trapping Adama until repairs can be made. This storyline continues until issue 12. Along the way issue 7 features Adama's memories of an adventure he and Tigh had as young warriors, issue 8 features Apollo's efforts to stop Uri, issue 9, in a weak story, has a "space mimic" infiltrate the Galactica and assume Adama's form. It intends to feed on the life essences of the humans, but dies from an overload of good emotions expressed by everyone who believes the mimic to be Adama. Issue 10 is another memory of Adama's, this one featuring a mission involving Zac and a living alien planet that makes telepathic contact with Apollo. Issues 11 and 12 feature "Scavenge World", an enormous haphazard planet-sized amalgam of parts and ships that is crewed by pirates of all alien races and ruled by the beautiful red-headed eyepatch-wearing Queen Eurayle. At the end of the adventure, she reveals that her vessel has the ability to repair the Memory Machine and free Adama, but her price is to have Starbuck as her consort. Adama is freed, and just in the nick of time, as Uri has led the fleet into a Cylon trap and doesn't know what to do. Adama rushes to the bridge and saves the Galactica with his expert tactical knowledge. Issue 13 has Adama regain command and Starbuck agrees to go off with Eurayle. Issue 14 focuses on Boxey and Muffit. Saddened by Starbuck's departure, Boxey decided to steal a Viper and go rescue him. He takes a wrong turn and winds up in a highly radioactive engine compartment. While Apollo and search teams scour the ship for the missing boy, Muffit rescues him from the radiation but is destroyed in the process. A sympathetic engineer collects the daggit's pieces. Issue 15 features Boomer, trapped on an old ship discovered as a floating derelict where a mutagenic virus has turned the vermin into creatures right out of "Alien". He finds one human survivor which turns out to be Adama's wife Ila. She is dying, and she begs him never to reveal what happened to her to her surviving family. Boomer makes this promise, then overloads the ship's reactors to stop the virus and the monsters from spreading. He escapes via spacesuit to a waiting shuttle piloted by Jolly, bound by his pledge not to tell Adama or Apollo about Ila. Issue 16 features Apollo versus an advanced Cylon warrior who shoots him down in a dogfight. Issue 17 and 18 feature a story about a Galactican scientist who is mutated into a red-skinned Hulk-like creature by fruit found on a planet the warriors were exploring. Issue 19 brings back Starbuck in a tale entitled "The Daring Escape of the Space Cowboy". After arriving safely on the Galactica in a makeshift craft, Starbuck tells a story of how he left Scavenge World, but there are differences (mostly humorous) between what he tells his friends and what the audience is allowed to see in flashback! Issue 20 features Athena, and the attempts of a lonely energy being to seduce her into becoming its lover, with an ulterior motive in mind. Issues 21-23 wrap up the storylines; cronies of Sire Uri's (who has been in the brig since Adama returned) are stealing the fleet's food and other supplies covertly. Boomer and Jolly are sent to investigate. Meanwhile, research on Starbuck's derelict craft reveals it to be early Colonial. Apollo, Boomer, and Jolly arrest Uri's people, an accidental turn of phrase leads to the discovery of a star chart showing the path of the 13th Tribe, Muffit is repaired and returned to Boxey, and Adama sets course by the information gathered from the derelict, hoping it will lead them to Earth.

Like the TV show itself, this was short lived.