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screams in the void said:

AH ! These are the droids I was looking for…http://www.rebelscum.com/comicbooks.asp and here is the international gallery…http://www.rebelscum.com/marvelcomics12.asp

Neat.

Its interesting to see the Finish gallery. Apart from the text, they’re the exact same issues that I have in my collection of Norwegian comics.

I really like those German covers. It’s interesting to see how they extended the original cover art. I actually photoshopped SW #40 (EDIT: #25) a while back to remove the barcode and had to re-draw Leia’s hand. It’s fun to see how the German and Mexican versions did the same things in two different ways.

Star Wars is Surrealism, not Science Fiction (essay)
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screams in the void said:

cool ! would love to see your version of #40

I don’t have any copies of it on the laptop I’m currently using. (I do have all the rest though, for some weird reason.)

Either way, it mostly looks like the German cover, only with the original US colours. Plus, it wasn’t really finished. But now that I have the German and Mexican versions I might use those to improve it when I get back home. I might post it then, alongside some of the other covers I didn’t post earlier.

Star Wars is Surrealism, not Science Fiction (essay)
Original Trilogy Documentaries/Making-Ofs (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)
Beyond the OT Documentaries/Making-Ofs (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)
Amazon link to my novel; Dawn of the Karabu.

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ZkinandBonez said:

screams in the void said:

cool ! would love to see your version of #40

I don’t have any copies of it on the laptop I’m currently using. (I do have all the rest though, for some weird reason.)

Either way, it mostly looks like the German cover, only with the original US colours. Plus, it wasn’t really finished. But now that I have the German and Mexican versions I might use those to improve it when I get back home. I might post it then, alongside some of the other covers I didn’t post earlier.

cool , thank you .It has been neat seeing your work .

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ZkinandBonez said:

screams in the void said:

AH ! These are the droids I was looking for…http://www.rebelscum.com/comicbooks.asp and here is the international gallery…http://www.rebelscum.com/marvelcomics12.asp

Neat.

Its interesting to see the Finish gallery. Apart from the text, they’re the exact same issues that I have in my collection of Norwegian comics.

We might have discussed this, but Denmark sent all the stories across the Nordics and the publisher in Finland had no idea what numbers they were nor how many there are in total or in what order they were originally released. And it all ended with a complete surprise in the last number. Sweden got at least one extra story. It seems that at least Finland and Norway were both in the complete darkness and got the same short end of the stick.

And in the time of greatest despair, there shall come a savior, and he shall be known as the Son of the Suns.

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LexX said:

ZkinandBonez said:

screams in the void said:

AH ! These are the droids I was looking for…http://www.rebelscum.com/comicbooks.asp and here is the international gallery…http://www.rebelscum.com/marvelcomics12.asp

Neat.

Its interesting to see the Finish gallery. Apart from the text, they’re the exact same issues that I have in my collection of Norwegian comics.

We might have discussed this, but Denmark sent all the stories across the Nordics and the publisher in Finland had no idea what numbers they were nor how many there are in total or in what order they were originally released. And it all ended with a complete surprise in the last number. Sweden got at least one extra story. It seems that at least Finland and Norway were both in the complete darkness and got the same short end of the stick.

Yes, we discussed this in another thread at some point, but I did’t know sending them to Finland had anything to do with the wacky continuity. Most Norwegian comics I have from that period are more-or-less like that. I always assumed that the stories were edited in Denmark and only sent to Finland for printing. Or do you have any more information about this?

At least the Norwegian comics made some sense when it came to the continuity. At the top of the slash page were in the US it said “Stan Lee presents; the greatest space fantasy of all”, etc. in Norway it would often say something like “This story takes place immediately after Return of the Jedi”, or something like that to re-orientate you when suddenly in 1985 you got a story originally from 1981. Was it like this in the Finish releases well? (or am I repeating myself again?)

Also, I’m curious now, what was the “surprise” in the last number? And what extra story did Sweden get? I know Sweden got more Dark Horse stories in the 90’s, but I didn’t know it applied to the Marvel ones as well.

Star Wars is Surrealism, not Science Fiction (essay)
Original Trilogy Documentaries/Making-Ofs (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)
Beyond the OT Documentaries/Making-Ofs (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)
Amazon link to my novel; Dawn of the Karabu.

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ZkinandBonez said:

LexX said:

ZkinandBonez said:

screams in the void said:

AH ! These are the droids I was looking for…http://www.rebelscum.com/comicbooks.asp and here is the international gallery…http://www.rebelscum.com/marvelcomics12.asp

Neat.

Its interesting to see the Finish gallery. Apart from the text, they’re the exact same issues that I have in my collection of Norwegian comics.

We might have discussed this, but Denmark sent all the stories across the Nordics and the publisher in Finland had no idea what numbers they were nor how many there are in total or in what order they were originally released. And it all ended with a complete surprise in the last number. Sweden got at least one extra story. It seems that at least Finland and Norway were both in the complete darkness and got the same short end of the stick.

Yes, we discussed this in another thread at some point, but I did’t know sending the to Finland had anything to do with the wacky continuity. Most Norwegian comics I have from that period are more-or-less like that. I always assumed that the stories were edited in Denmark and only sent to Finland for printing. Or do you have any more information about this?

At least the Norwegian comics made some sense when it came to the continuity. At the top of the slash page were in the US it said “Stan Lee presents; the greatest space fantasy of all”, etc. in Norway it would often say something like “This story takes place immediately after Return of the Jedi”, or something like that to re-orientate you when suddenly in 1985 you got a story originally fro 1981. Was it like this in the Finish releases well? (or am I repeating myself again?)

Also, I’m curious now, what was the “surprise” in the last number? And what extra story did Sweden get? I know Sweden got more Dark Horse stories in the 90’s, but I didn’t know it applied to the Marvel ones as well.

Yeah, they had a little continuity but it wasn’t because of Finland but what was sent to here. Unfortunately I don’t have my comics at hand right now, but based on an online article which quotes the texts from the articles made by the translator in the comics, he said in 1987 that they have no idea what’s going on in the US and which number is which. In 1986 he also said that they got the material from Denmark and that in 1987 the comic structure was done in Sweden. Sweden sent the stuff to Finland and Norway. It was asked in #1 of 12 in 1987 that as the last number was published in the US, what would happen to the Finnish comics. He said that Norway would have material for 1987 and 1988 and that they would publish “everything that exists”. I don’t know if any of this was discussed in the readers’ questions in Sweden or Denmark, but those would be the places to get info how the material got here. Based on this, it would seem that they would just get more or less random stories from the US and just distributed them to our countries. I doubt that they would just be sitting on all Marvel releases and then you get stories from here and there and to have every year different number of actual releases which seems unplanned.

The surprise was that it ended in #12 1987 without any warning, it was like “this is the last number, thanks everyone” even though previously there was talking about the next year and new “clone wars movies”. The reason was that they could not get any more material and there was nothing to be done. Probably Marvel didn’t care at that point?

Sweden got #92 which wasn’t released here.

And in the time of greatest despair, there shall come a savior, and he shall be known as the Son of the Suns.

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I found this great comic shop called Classic Collections in the middle of nowhere today and got my biggest comic haul so far (of any time I’ve been in the US). In addition to the comics in the image below I also got vol 1 of the 1994 TPB of the Goodwin/Williamson “Classic Star Wars”, a few issues of Star Wars Galaxy Magazine, and the Droid World: Further Adventures adaptation of #47.

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Star Wars is Surrealism, not Science Fiction (essay)
Original Trilogy Documentaries/Making-Ofs (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)
Beyond the OT Documentaries/Making-Ofs (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)
Amazon link to my novel; Dawn of the Karabu.

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LexX said:

ZkinandBonez said:

LexX said:

ZkinandBonez said:

screams in the void said:

AH ! These are the droids I was looking for…http://www.rebelscum.com/comicbooks.asp and here is the international gallery…http://www.rebelscum.com/marvelcomics12.asp

Neat.

Its interesting to see the Finish gallery. Apart from the text, they’re the exact same issues that I have in my collection of Norwegian comics.

We might have discussed this, but Denmark sent all the stories across the Nordics and the publisher in Finland had no idea what numbers they were nor how many there are in total or in what order they were originally released. And it all ended with a complete surprise in the last number. Sweden got at least one extra story. It seems that at least Finland and Norway were both in the complete darkness and got the same short end of the stick.

Yes, we discussed this in another thread at some point, but I did’t know sending the to Finland had anything to do with the wacky continuity. Most Norwegian comics I have from that period are more-or-less like that. I always assumed that the stories were edited in Denmark and only sent to Finland for printing. Or do you have any more information about this?

At least the Norwegian comics made some sense when it came to the continuity. At the top of the slash page were in the US it said “Stan Lee presents; the greatest space fantasy of all”, etc. in Norway it would often say something like “This story takes place immediately after Return of the Jedi”, or something like that to re-orientate you when suddenly in 1985 you got a story originally fro 1981. Was it like this in the Finish releases well? (or am I repeating myself again?)

Also, I’m curious now, what was the “surprise” in the last number? And what extra story did Sweden get? I know Sweden got more Dark Horse stories in the 90’s, but I didn’t know it applied to the Marvel ones as well.

Yeah, they had a little continuity but it wasn’t because of Finland but what was sent to here. Unfortunately I don’t have my comics at hand right now, but based on an online article which quotes the texts from the articles made by the translator in the comics, he said in 1987 that they have no idea what’s going on in the US and which number is which. In 1986 he also said that they got the material from Denmark and that in 1987 the comic structure was done in Sweden. Sweden sent the stuff to Finland and Norway. It was asked in #1 of 12 in 1987 that as the last number was published in the US, what would happen to the Finnish comics. He said that Norway would have material for 1987 and 1988 and that they would publish “everything that exists”. I don’t know if any of this was discussed in the readers’ questions in Sweden or Denmark, but those would be the places to get info how the material got here. Based on this, it would seem that they would just get more or less random stories from the US and just distributed them to our countries. I doubt that they would just be sitting on all Marvel releases and then you get stories from here and there and to have every year different number of actual releases which seems unplanned.

Well, I don’t have any of the 1987 issues so I don’t know what was discussed in the letters section, but I do have a few issues of a Norwegian B&W comic called “Cobra” which included some of the Goodwin/Williamson newspaper strips. I guess continuing the main comic without any new American stories was too complicated so they opted to include “everything [else] that exists” as bonus stories in another comic instead.

LexX said:

The surprise was that it ended in #12 1987 without any warning, it was like “this is the last number, thanks everyone” even though previously there was talking about the next year and new “clone wars movies”. The reason was that they could not get any more material and there was nothing to be done. Probably Marvel didn’t care at that point?

Sweden got #92 which wasn’t released here.

I don’t own the Norwegian version of this issues but it has the same cover and the next pretty much just translates to “end of story” or “that’s it”, so I guess the Norwegian end to the series was equally abrupt.

I do however seem to recall some discussions about the prequels as “soon to be announced” films in the letters sections of several issues. Of course nothing happened, so they filled the page with info about the Ewok movies instead despite the fact that they never got any Norwegian VHS release. They even talked about Labyrinth in one issue (pictures and all) because it was the closest thing to a George Lucas film at the time.

Star Wars is Surrealism, not Science Fiction (essay)
Original Trilogy Documentaries/Making-Ofs (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)
Beyond the OT Documentaries/Making-Ofs (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)
Amazon link to my novel; Dawn of the Karabu.

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screams in the void said:

great haul ! Issue 35 Dark Lord’s Gambit will always be my version of how Vader learned Luke’s name. The droid world book is awesome too ! There is a channel on youtube that has it as well as pretty much all o the read along book and record/tape productions to date…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jjEm6g3FNw

Yeah, I always though it was interesting that Vader learning Luke’s name was described as “surprisingly underwhelming”, especially considering that ESB was released only a few months later.

Droid World has always been a favourite of mine, so I had to grab the read-along version just for fun. I’ve heard the record/cassette on YouTube before, but it’s fun to actually have the booklet. I’m also a big fan of the Frank Miller cover art. Retroactively it’s fun to see how many soon-to-be famous artists briefly worked on SW in the late 70’s / early 80’s (like John Byrne doing the cover for #13).

Star Wars is Surrealism, not Science Fiction (essay)
Original Trilogy Documentaries/Making-Ofs (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)
Beyond the OT Documentaries/Making-Ofs (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)
Amazon link to my novel; Dawn of the Karabu.

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right ! like Klaus Janson on Star Wars Annual 3 ! I am still hoping to find a copy of The three random house original trilogy pop up books out in the wild somewhere. I could order them off ebay or amazon or some such but I enjoy coming across such finds in physical locations .

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and I believe the caption on issue 35 read , " Two words ,one name ,almost anti climactic given the long time it has taken for him to learn it ". The Dark Horse series Vader’s quest also dealt with the issue as well and I recall seeing a timeline on the web long ago that reconciled those two stories into one.

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screams in the void said:

I could order them off ebay or amazon or some such but I enjoy coming across such finds in physical locations .

I feel the same way. I’m only about 10 or so issues away from owning all of the Goodwin/Infantino issues, so I could order them online for a decent-ish price, but if I did that I wouldn’t find interesting places like the one I found today. The store was literally just in some guys house, but he had the largest selections of old comics I’ve seen in any comic store, period (and that’s including big city stores). The owner was a really nice guy and we ended up discussing various things about Marvel SW (like pre-ROTJ Jabba, etc). He even gave me a discount because I bought so much at once.

eBay is something I’ll only resort to when I’m missing like one or two issues (maybe, we’ll see).

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Original Trilogy Documentaries/Making-Ofs (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)
Beyond the OT Documentaries/Making-Ofs (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)
Amazon link to my novel; Dawn of the Karabu.

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Yeah , I get ya , the hunt and interesting places are what it is all about !I have the entire run of the original Marvel Star Wars series that I bought between 1989 and 1994 . The two places I visited most to find them was a comic shop called Friendly Franks (long closed now ) which was owned by an old hippie like dude and had all kinds of rare back issues and magazines like Famous Monsters Of Film Land as well as Starlog and a lot of independent comics . The other place was called Sandlings Books and Bindery which was a used bookstore with a comics section in the back and it was owned by a Civil War buff who had a lot of Union memorabilia on display . That store is also long closed .I tend to visit thrift stores, library sales and antique stores now.

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I don’t remember Jolli smoking. 😉

IIRC, her ultimate fate generated a bunch of positive letters. It was certainly the first character arc I ever noticed in a comic as a kid.

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if you look closely at issue 11 where Han is in Crimson Jack’s quarters discussing the location of the water world Drexel , she has a smoke in her mouth in every panel on that page , though they seemed to have dropped it after that . Looking through my 2002 A long Time Ago trade paperback , it is the only page of her appearances in the series where that happens. I put it there for a little mood and character in my artwork and for a sort of Noir feeling of the Femme Fatale trope.

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Interesting! I wonder if Disney would even allow smoking in the comics now?

I was amused by the fake Jaxxon comic cover someone did a few years back. Jolli needs more fan art love. 😃

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Indeed! There was supposed to have been a Hardware Wars comic at some point. Not sure if it actually saw print or not.

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A while back I found these six pages from an old article about the “Goodwin-years” of Marvel Star Wars. I don’t know what magazine this is from, but I made them into a PDF and figured I’d share it here.

‘Star Wars Under Archie Goodwin’ by Kurt Busiek

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Might have been the short lived Comics Scene magazine Starlog press had for a while in the early 80’s? The layout style is similar to Starlog in any case.

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