I’m a big fan of the original Marvel Star Wars comics, specifically the first few years when they were written by Archie Goodwin and drawn by Carmine Infantino. (Very specifically #11-37)

One of the many things that I like about Goodwin’s writing, and 70’s comics in general really, is that they had such a Saturday-Morning-esque cartoon feel to them. And Infantino’s art-style would have lent itself really well to animation as well.

So, just for fun I decided to imagine what would have happened if these comics actually had been a cartoon back in the day, and decided to make a set of VHS covers for them.

I took the 90’s VHS cover for the movie version of several Droids episodes, copied the style, and made three VHS covers. I also took inspiration from how the Scandinavian version of the Marvel comics often combined 5-6 issue story-lines into albums, so I made one VHS for “waterworld” (#11-15), “The Wheel” (#18-23) and a combination of “Siege at Yavin” (#25-26) and the “Omega Frost” (#31-34). I copied as much of the Droid VHS blurbs as possible and tried to fill in the blanks with a somewhat over-the-top 90’s style of marketing.

(I got a little lazy with the front art, but it’s the kind of thing that might have been done for a real VHS set. Plus, finding cover art from this period with a clean background isn’t easy.)