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#1161998
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The original Marvel Star Wars series
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Yeah , I like that Seven Samurai homage as well and the old marvel series was way ahead of it’s time , they even did a similar storyline in the Clone Wars animated series . Those early issues you mentioned such as the wheel saga and the Biggs issue were some of my favorites as well . I would have to say the Shira Brie storyline is my favorite of the series , especially from about issue 58-63 .

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#1161041
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The original Marvel Star Wars series
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loving the content and musings in this thread , I am wondering if there is a difference between colors in the various reprint trades , dark horse started the recoloring with the series of trades called A LONG TIME AGO , which were colored by digital chameleon and I own those , then a few years later they printed them again in their omnibus collection , they also did two issues each of the movie adaptations of the OT with new cover art by Al Williamson, Arthur Adams ,Cam Kennedy etc . and those were the first recolorings of the movie adaptations . and now that Marvel has the license back , they are also putting out trades of the original series . I also own the hardback movie adaptations that Silverwook mentioned and I like some of what they did but think they went too far in some places like the asteroid chase in Empire where they actually erased some of Al Williamson’s artwork in favor of " enhancements " which is an affront to the artist in my opinion seeing that he is deceased and has no say in it . I have always wanted to see the entire series recolored though , but in a way that respects the artists and keeps the work intact and corrects things like the way Luke has a yellow or red saber , the two tone face of Chewbacca that makes him look like a monkey ,etc . those things bugged me even as a kid . I would buy the trades again if they put them out like that .

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#1160434
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The original Marvel Star Wars series
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Over the years I have seen various posts bringing up the original marvel series that ran from the late 70’s to mid 80’s , seems like a lot of affection for it from various members , myself included , I would love to hear your recollections , musings and posts about it .For me it was a monthly childhood ritual of riding my bike to the local pharmacy to go get each issue from the spinner rack and maybe get a charms blow pop , some big league chew gum , or a cassette tape .It was the only way to re live and expand the story of the movies available to me at the time .Fond memories . To that end , I have been making homages and re creations to the covers of that series which can be viewed in my gallery here …https://screamsinthevoid.deviantart.com/ Looking forward to hearing peoples thoughts on the series .thank you .