RDRR said:
Only just discovered this online stash of all the cool Russ Manning Sunday strips. I still think this stuff was closest to the spirit and fun of the original movie. http://dailysw.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Constancia%20Affair

Those were chopped up and reprinted as comic book panels in star wars the early adventures and like the al williamson reprints the sundays were recolored and the old colors were lost. I think they only got black and white photostats or in the case of williamson they shot it off his original artwork.

Russ Manning's best was Magnus Robot fighter.

I liked his star wars but the best artwork and stories were apparently ghostwritten and drawn by others while he was ill. Like the Boba Fett story.

One of the stories was published under a fake name and never reprinted.

Some of the newspaper strips were done by Alfredo Alcala like the adaptation of Han Solo at stars end.