^ another awesome find ! that is one of my favorite issues and the one where I felt they started to get the artwork looking accurate to the movies . I love the panel layout in that first scan .
It wouldn’t surprise me if it turned out that Michael Golden had a copy of The Star Wars Portfolio on his desk as he drew that issue. The second panel is strikingly similar to Ralph McQuarrie’s painting of a TIE pilot.
It’s too bad Golden didn’t do any more SW. He has a great dynamic style that fits the series really well, and like you said, he made it look a lot more like the movies in terms of detail.
(I also really like his Y-Wing-shaped shuttle design; SW #38 splash page )
