A GALAXIAN WORMHOLE

I'm not getting very far with ID'ing the strong but mysterious Galaxian Atari video game box art I posted t'other day.

I am as it were going up my own Galaxian butt with this.

Reader Knobgobbler suggested looking into the comic book it mentions so I did. Its a DC special they did for various Atari games called Atari Force.

Looking into Atari Force I found a site listing the comic artists. Its now clear that Galaxian contained Atari Force 5 as pictured here but nothing to help me ID the game cover.

Another article on Geek.com names Atari's box artists ... yes! but no mention of Galaxian itself. nevertheless it could be a galactic step forward. The names are Cliff Spohn, Jaekel, Rick Guidice, and George Opperman, names which mean nothing to me. You?

So until a reader or readers can illuminate this dark corner of box illustration I'll riff a bit more about Roger Dean as he used a similar font for Greenslade's LP art and I thought he was just ace when I was young.

Like the Galaxian cover, Dean could also create a darn fine flying insectoid spacecraft as shown brilliantly on his Motown Chartbusters LP cover.

Oddly enough though the Galaxian insect ship has the industrial look of our friend Ron Turner's mega machines like this 

So, Galaxians, who did your cover art for Atari?

Tell us!