From: jack.bohn64@gmail.com   
      
   There were a few old sf properties made into movies immediately post-Star Wars   
   and they were "retooled" to be so similar that I wonder whether the name was   
   bought just to dare Fox to sue a 1930s title as copying him.  (Buck Rogers,   
   H.G. Well's Things to    
   Come, Lensman.)   
      
   I've found five videos on YouTube about the similarities of Star Wars to   
   Valerian.  Their consensus:   
   Millennium Falcon is saucer-shaped like a ship in the comic.    
   There is a creature with wings and a long nose that might be mistaken for   
   Wattoo in a dark alley.    
   A man is trapped in a block of material.    
   A woman appears in a metal bikini. (I won't go into the history of the metal   
   brasier as an accessory to a transparent spacesuit, I'll just note the comic   
   was preceded by Frank Frazetta's 1970 cover painting for _A Princess of Mars_,   
   which was widely    
   available in the US.)   
   A guy with a helmet concealing his destroyed face -- like Doctor Doom a decade   
   before.   
   A character in a high-collar military uniform who looks like Peter Cushing.    
   (I love that so much I want to repeat it.  A character -- drawn in 1971 -- who   
   looks like Peter Cushing!)   
      
   I remain unconvinced that this was one of the sources Lucas stole from.   
      
   --    
   -Jack   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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