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Post #993715

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DevilWing
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The Retro Star Wars Thread
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17-Sep-2016, 4:21 PM

A Japanese translation of the Marvel adaptation of Star Wars was serialized in a few issues of Shonen Magazine in 1978, and in the first issue (1978 #18) they included some original artwork.

A spread featuring most of the main characters, along with “Jabba” from the Marvel comic and Garindan, who’s named “Goggles” in this magazine:

A painting of Ben and Vader (captioned “Duel to the Death between Good and Evil!”) by Noriyoshi Ohrai, who also did some other famous Star Wars promo images in Japan:

1978 promotional poster by Ohrai:

Japanese TESB theatrical poster by Ohrai:

Star Wars Japanese theatrical re-release poster by Ohrai from 1982: