Star Wars Weekly, The UK’s version of the Marvel Star Wars comics.

Just figured I’d share random covers that I managed to find in high res and that I feel accurately illustrates the over-dramatic quality of late 70’s Marvel SW comics (the last one in particular).

(All of these have original artwork made for the UK by Carmine Infantino. Since the Marvel UK split each American issue into several smaller parts, more cover art was needed. They even wrote some original stories just for the UK.)

(It doesn’t get more 70’s Marvel than a buff Luke Skywalker dual-wielding blasters against some Imperial Troop Transports; which BTW were actually based off a Kenner toy that were released the same year as this comic was released.)

(That guy with the knife is actually supposed to be a TIE-Pilot. It’s hard to tell why Infantino drew him like that, considering how the TIE-Pilots were featured so prominently the movie. Then again Marvel did seem to often use the Kenner toys as reference, and the TIE-pilot figure didn’t exist at this point.)

(This one I find especially amusing. “Chewbacca betrayed by Han Solo!” This ‘betrayal’ ends up actually being a relatively small moment that plays out with far less drama and confusion than the cover would imply. The composition in the cover is, when compared to the events in the cover, actually straight up misleading.)