Marvel did get a couple letters accusing them of inserting scenes into the movie adaptation, specifically Biggs and Jabba, so overreacting is nothing new. 😉
Do you know how people reacted to Luke’s red and yellow lightsaber in the Marvel comics?
There’s a guy on YouTube who grew up with the Kenner toys in the early 80’s and he’s apparently been annoyed at that yellow lightsaber ever since. So this made me curious.
Do you know if this was a common complaint, or did most people just accept it like they did with the comic covers?I don’t recall any lightsaber controversies. Too bad nobody has thought of an archive of just the letters column page to show what fans were thinking back then.
I do know the yellow lightsaber persisted well into the ESB line.
The irony is that they finally realized that the lightsaber was supposed to be blue…
…in 1983.
(They did after a short while change it to green though. But how they kept getting these colours wrong from 1977-1982 still baffles me.)
Btw. All this 70’s and 80’s SW might start to be not-so-random-thoughts anymore.
So I made a Retro Star Wars thread.