Star Wars saves Marvel

[ctc]

>my all time favorite issue was "Death Probe".

As a kid, I started losing interest shortly after the Empire cycle. I preferred the oddball galaxy to the one that had concise plotting.... but “Death Probe” was one I really enjoyed!

‘Course, reading those stories NOW, I find I enjoy them a lot more than when I was 10. (But I still prefer the weird stuff.)

“Droid World” is my all-time fave. I remember making custom figures of all the droids from the comic. (They weren’t real good, but I was 9 or so.)

>and the almost infinite amount of reprints and repackaging Marvel would put those firs 6 issues through

Yeah, I can remember tons of different versions.... and now we know why.

>Lucas didn't like Jaxxon but later gives us Jar Jar.

HAW! Good point! I wonder if folks would have hated Jaxxon so much if he looked more like this:

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__..._cover_art.jpg

Don C.

[torgospizza]

Speaking of Jaxxon, issue 8 "Eight for Aduba-3" has been my favorite issue since I was a kid. In fact, I read that comic before I had even seen the movie--it was my first exposure to Star Wars in any form. I think it was that Tom Palmer's inks really brought some realism to Chaykin's ultra-stylized pencils that made me love it. There were some other stand-out issues here and there--Palmer also inked Walt Simonson on issue 52's "To Take the Tarkin" (another favorite) with a similar effect.