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Post #991627

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ZkinandBonez
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General Star Wars Random Thoughts Thread
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10-Sep-2016, 4:34 PM

SilverWook said:

I think those are from the British weekly issues. It ran in black and white. I dig a lot of the original covers the “extra” issues got.

Some were a tad misleading.

Actually found a batch of them in an antique shop in the 80’s. Someone had thoughtfully colored many of the interior pages with magic markers though.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Weekly
I recall the one with the weird looking Falcon being used in one of the many reprintings of the movie adaptation though.

Yes, those pin-ups are from Star Wars Weekly.

I’m a big fan of those late 70’s Goodwin/Infantino SW comics, and the UK versions had some of the best cover art.
They’re so fantastically over-the-top and cheesy.




And yes, often quite misleading;


Han basically just stuns Chewie to save his life from some Imperials, but on the cover art it’s played off as this big betrayal.

(BTW. As a person who wasn’t even born when these comics came out, I’m curious; was it annoying when the cover art exaggerated like this, or did people just accept it as the norm?)