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screams in the void said:

I got lost exploring this site for a few hours today…lots of international covers for the classic Marvel series here…the ones from Indonesia and Spain are both cool and batshit crazy ! http://swcomiccollector.blogspot.com/search/label/Retro Foreign?updated-max=2017-03-26T00:18:00-07:00&max-results=20&start=47&by-date=false

This one’s my favourite of the odd ones (the rest are actually quite good/accurate). All the other covers I could tell which story it represented, but this one baffled me. First of all Han has a lightsaber and the spaceship in the background looks like something from a Chris Foss painting. My first guess was that this was an attempt at illustrating issue #28 but the text translates to “fly to the fury” (e.g. Flight into Fury) so I guess this is the last part of the Wheel storyline.

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I take back my previous statement about the weirdest cover, this is by far the strangest one;

This is clearly the cover for issue #2 but with Luke re-drawn to look like Han and with Obi Wan’s head covered by a helmet. The other Colombian covers are the same as the originals (minus the colours) and this issue seems to come from after the movie adaptation so I have no idea what’s going on here.

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Ben looks like one of the Foot Clan ninjas from the '90s TMNT movies on that cover.

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ZkinandBonez said:

I take back my previous statement about the weirdest cover, this is by far the strangest one;

This is clearly the cover for issue #2 but with Luke re-drawn to look like Han and with Obi Wan’s head covered by a helmet. The other Colombian covers are the same as the originals (minus the colours) and this issue seems to come from after the movie adaptation so I have no idea what’s going on here.

in the blog , he explains that it translates to new planets and perils , which is issue 7 , the first comic after the movie . Ben has his head replaced with what is supposed to be the insect priest from that issue and his lightsaber is supposed to be is staff , they shortened Luke’s tunic a bit and put Han’s vest on him and changed te hair to brown . Yeah, it was a very weird choice to repurpose the cover to issue 2 like that . Keep going back a few pages and you will see more strange stuff !

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ZkinandBonez said:

I take back my previous statement about the weirdest cover, this is by far the strangest one;

This is clearly the cover for issue #2 but with Luke re-drawn to look like Han and with Obi Wan’s head covered by a helmet. The other Colombian covers are the same as the originals (minus the colours) and this issue seems to come from after the movie adaptation so I have no idea what’s going on here.

in the blog , he explains that it translates to new planets and perils , which is issue 7 , the first comic after the movie . Ben has his head replaced with what is supposed to be the insect priest from that issue and his lightsaber is supposed to be is staff , they shortened Luke’s tunic a bit and put Han’s vest on him and changed te hair to brown . Yeah, it was a very weird choice to repurpose the cover to issue 2 like that . Keep going back a few pages and you will see more strange stuff !

Ah, that makes sense (sort of). It’s funny how Han talks to Chewie on the cover (I used google translate) despite him not being on the cover. It’s basically the same dialogue from the cover of #2, but with Han telling chewie to keep shooting. The spanish translation also seems to have interpreted “chewie” quite literally and used the word for chewing as his name. I first though “masca” might refer to a mask since I thought Ben was masked, but it seems to literally just say “chew”.

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screams in the void said:

I got lost exploring this site for a few hours today…lots of international covers for the classic Marvel series here…the ones from Indonesia and Spain are both cool and batshit crazy ! http://swcomiccollector.blogspot.com/search/label/Retro Foreign?updated-max=2017-03-26T00:18:00-07:00&max-results=20&start=47&by-date=false

Ditto on that first statement.

Indonesian Star Wars Komik Spesial Cypress #1
http://swcomiccollector.blogspot.com/2015/12/retro-foreign-indonesian-star-wars.html

Man, and I though some of the Norwegian comics were heavily edited. At least the Norwegian editing made some sense, but the Indonesian comic literally just pasted panels from different issues, and with a completely different artist, into SW Annual #1. They even removed the background art in several panels and the cover is a complete mess that looks like scrapbook collage. You can almost make out some Infantino art at the top of the cover. Seems like they took one of the Marvel covers and literally just glued a weird picture of Mark Hamill on top of it.


Brazilian O Incrivel Hulk #25 - 27
http://swcomiccollector.blogspot.com/2016/02/retro-foreign-brazilian-o-incrivel-hulk.html

I find the Brazilian ones quite interesting though. It reminds me a little bit of what they did in Norway, where they often bundled stories that didn’t quite belong together, but at least they never did anything as weird as Star Wars and the Hulk. Having said that, though, had this been in Norwegian I’d totally read it as a kid.


The most interesting one that I’ve found so far, however, has to be the one from Lebanon.

Lebanese Beyond the Universe Album #2
http://swcomiccollector.blogspot.com/2016/06/retro-foreign-lebanese-beyond-universe.html

At first it didn’t really stand out among all the other strange stuff posted on the site, but this comment made me see it in a very different light;

“Remarkably, these comics were published in Lebanon in the middle of a 15 year civil war that began in 1975. For Lebanese children who grew up during this era, the Grendizer cartoon and comics were a distraction from the atrocities that were taking place in their country.”


These are actually quite cool TBH (and I kinda want one for my collection). Even the random sci-fi posters and the weird Star Trek photonovel-thing looks quite interesting. This one was just the right amount of weird and esoteric, while still showing that it was made by people who clearly cared for the source material, to make it special as opposed to just strange or novel like many of the other foreign editions.


PS. The Yugoslavian version of ANH has by far the most hideous colouring of any comic book I’ve ever seen and I don’t think I’ll ever complain about the sometimes odd colour choices in old Scandinavian comics ever again after seeing this.

https://i.imgur.com/ufnGwA8.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/tXf8Hft.jpg

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ZkinandBonez said:

PS. The Yugoslavian version of ANH has by far the most hideous colouring of any comic book I’ve ever seen and I don’t think I’ll ever complain about the sometimes odd colour choices in old Scandinavian comics ever again after seeing this.

https://i.imgur.com/ufnGwA8.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/tXf8Hft.jpg

I got a Star Wars colouring book in the summer of 1997. I hadn’t yet seen ROTJ, so I didn’t know what colour an AT-ST was supposed to be. I just used my imagination and made it a psychedelic rainbow machine.

Perhaps someone handed the lineart to their kid and let them run wild? 😛

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Does anyone know where this poster is from?

Is this something that was officially released with the comics or is this some kid of fan collage? The picture at the bottom right is one of the posters that we discussed earlier in the thread, the top right panel with Vader I think is from #52 To take the Tarkin and the two stormtroppers on the middle-left is Luke and Han from the ANH adaptation. The rest I’m not too sure about.

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^ that would make an awesome blanket ! The top right panel of Vader is actually the last page of issue 62 which was titled Pariah . It is not in the picture here , but at the bottom of the page there was a footnote by the creators of the comic which said…We DARE YOU not to by the next issue ! That issue was part of my all time favorite story line outside of the films and the one directly after the issue I took my screen name from .

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The original Marvel run was great, not perfect, but well worth a read. I’m currently trying to track down a copy of Shin-ichi Hiromoto’s manga adaptation of RotJ. The art looks great from what I’ve seen online.

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screams in the void said:

^ that is some great artwork ! Dark Horse published spectacular Manga editions of all three OT films . Someone should start a Dark Horse Star Wars comics thread ! 😃

I used to love Dark Horse back in the day. I should see what they’ve been putting out of late next time I visit my local comic shop.

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The manga versions were hilarious, I recommend them.

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Not really anything new here, but it’s always fun to see videos about this subject matter;

Star Wars Comics: The Saga You Don’t Know About - Behind the Panel | SYFY WIRE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2PzwNIFVMA&t

Some interesting interviews with Duffy, Simonsons, etc. They kinda brush past the Dark Horse years and the stuff about the new comics was a bit weird and cajoling IMO (I would hardly call Kieron Gillen’s Vader series a “modern masterpiece”). Pretty interesting watch overall though, Simonson is always fun in these kinds of videos and this was actually the first time I’d seen an interview with Jo Duffy.

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So, I finally got around to reading #108 (the comic shop I go to messed up my pull-list so I didn’t get it until recently), and it was pretty fun, nothing spectacular, but actually a lot better than I had expected. For a comic that essentially tried to pull together key-characters/fan-favourites from 107 issues into one story, it was surprisingly consistent. It’s obviously a direct sequel to The Crimson Forever, which already had Domina Tagge as a part of the plot, but they managed to weave Valance, Jaxxon and Amaiza into the plot quite well. Jaxxon and Amaiza seemed a little bit shoe-horned in, but I though Valance’s story was quite interesting. The Valance issues are some of my favourites from the original comic series so I was a little worried about how they would handle it, and although, yes, they did retcon some of his backstory and abilities, it still resulted in a pretty interesting end to his arc despite in some ways being a repeat of what we’ve already seen. Overall though, I thought Valance was the best part of the comic and they tied it into the Crimson Fever quite well. The various artists did a pretty good job I think, and none of it felt cheap or lazy like a lot of modern Marvel art does, though some segments were far better than others.

Although this issue was mostly just a gimmick done to celebrate Marvel’s 80th anniversary, I think it’s quite nice to get a new Legends canon comic, especially one that’s essentially just one big love-letter to the Marvel comics which generally speaking was mostly ignored during the heydays of the old EU.

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I wish the “disney canon” resembled the original Marvel series more and the 1991-2014 canon less. For example, I don’t like the name, “New Republic” nor do I like the idea that the Empire’s civilian government ceased to exist as a result of the events of ROTJ while “the Empire” survives as a military junta.

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I did finally pick up the first Marvel Dark horse omnibus volume and plan to jump in straightaway. I almost read the new recolored versions from the library but couldn’t stand the look of them.

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captainsolo said:

I did finally pick up the first Marvel Dark horse omnibus volume and plan to jump in straightaway. I almost read the new recolored versions from the library but couldn’t stand the look of them.

I’m curious, would that be one of these two?;
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Omnibus:_A_Long_Time_Ago…_Volume_1
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_A_Long_Time_Ago…_Volume_1:_Doomworld

The latter was my first introduction to Marvel SW, though it took me a several years before I even realized it was made by Marvel as they erased the Marvel logos from the covers and replaced all the “Stan Lee presents…” with a generic “LucasFilm presents…” I guess I technically could have googled it, but 11 year old me in 2003 didn’t know how (or that google existed). The funny thing is that the art always gave me a Marvel-vibe and I was quite surprised when I a few years later come across a picture online of one of the covers (can’t remember which) with a spider-man head in the bar-code box.

Either way I’d recommend picking up the second volume as both editions cut off right in the middle of one of the best runs (the best IMO) of the classic Marvel SW series. Though the 2010 omnibus cuts off at a more appropriate point between story arcs. The first post ANH story is IMO a bit too wacky and cartoony, but once Archie Goodwin started writing in #11 it gets really good.

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That had better not be a Jaxxon diss. 😉

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https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Omnibus:_A_Long_Time_Ago…_Volume_1

It’s this later edition in the omnibus series. I’m now trying to get the whole run of Dark Horse omnibuses as I never realized they had republished so darn much in nice complete books like this. Of course now they’re going up in price so it’s yet something else OOP I now collect…

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Would you have liked the 1991-2014 EU to have picked up where Star Wars 107 left off instead of what they did with Thrawn and Dark Empire?

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It certainly would have been interesting to see, but I’m personally quite happy with what we got. 90’s SW is one of my favourite eras in the EU, especially the two stories you mentioned.

However, Marvel recently(ish) released issue #108 “Forever Crimson” which is as a sequel to both the Valance story-arc and the Crimson Forever story from issue #50. It also included Jaxxon for good measure. Hardly a masterpiece, but I quite liked it.

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