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Classic Star Wars comics before Dark Horse...

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What do you have to say about the Star Wars comics that came before Dark Horse?

I’ve had one of their issues of Classic Star Wars for years (it’s a reprint of the old comic strips). I’m looking into DH’s reprints of the strips and Marvel’s comics, but it looks like I missed the run of the collected editions by a few years.

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I have to say that I still have 6 to go before I have the whole set.

I really like them because they were pretty good stories written back when the fans (generally) didn't worry about continuity.  They fly in the face of all the EU nowadays.  Maybe that is another reason to like them.

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The old comics are far more genuinely Star Wars than the Dark Horse comics. They come from the era of the films and weren't part of some big latter-day revisionist EU project the way the Dark Horse ones were. If you want the genuine OT comic tradition, go to the Marvel comics and the newstrip.

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The Al Williamson stuff is great i love it.  still it is deliberate Pastiche of Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon from when Raymond drew the strip.  The Inking and line work is very much Like Joseph Clement Coll.

Williamson was also influenced by Wally Wood of EC comics, Harold Fosters Prince Valiant and Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates.

He was also an avid movie serial fan, and swashbuckling film addict.  Flash Gordon with Buster Crabbe, Errol Flynn in The Sea Hawk, Captain Blood and the adventures of robin hood, stewart granger in Scaramouche etc.

I am still looking for the original Color Sundays by williamson and goodwin.  The Dark Horse trades have the new artwork and redone edits to make the classic star wars comic series and the dailies were colored and the sundays were re-colored.  Unlike the Star Wars a long time ago volume reprints of the marvel comics no care was taken to preserve the original color.

Still I have the Entire original run in black and white uncut from Russ Cochrane Publishing in a three volume slipcased set signed on the title page by goodwin and williamson. Nobody has ever scanned these volumes.

Too bad i don't have a hi resolution scanner or a scanner of any kind,lol.

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Dark Horse re-released the Marvel comics into volumes. I bought volume 1 at a recent comic convention in Joplin, Missouri which has many issues from that era. I love it.

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