Star Wars: The Original Marvel Years
Star Wars 1

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Star Wars #1 Signature
Grade: 9.8
Page Quality: WHITE
Certification #: 0718696010
Owner: Kir Kanos

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: Star Wars: The Original Marvel Years
Date Added: 5/19/2019
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Star Wars 1 - The beginning of the six part 1977 movie adaptation which is now known as Episode IV: A New Hope.

Writer: Roy Thomas, Penciller and Inker: Howard Chaykin

Signed by Peter Mayhew, Anthony Daniels & David Prowse on 10/24/09.

Star Wars issue 1 was the beginning of Star Wars in comics and predated the release of the original Star Wars film. This issue adapted the original movie with a screenplay and production images. The film and adaption definitely had differences from one another. I suspect some of these changes were associated with post production editing of the film. Another observation a lot of people make is how rushed the artwork looked. From my understanding, a lot of pressure was on Howard Chaykin to have this issue ready as quick as possible. The artwork definitely improved with later parts of the adaptation.

I have read articles over the years describing how critical Roy Thomas was towards Marvel being the publisher of Star Wars comics and how these comics kept the company cash flow going in the tough comics business years of the late 1970s.
  
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