Star Wars: The Original Marvel Years
Star Wars 8

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Star Wars #8 Signature
Grade: 9.8
Page Quality: WHITE
Certification #: 1146325003
Owner: Kir Kanos

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: Star Wars: The Original Marvel Years
Date Added: 5/11/2019
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Star Wars 8: Eight for Aduba-3.

Writer: Roy Thomas and Howard Chaykin, Penciller: Howard Chaykin, Inker: Tom Palmer, Cover artist: Gil Kane and Tony DeZuniga.

Signed by Howard Chaykin on 10/14/12.

This issue began a Star Wars version of either the Magnificent Seven (1960) or the Seven Samurai (1954) films. Of interest, it is commonly known that Star Wars [Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)] was inspired by the great Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress (1958). Given that Roy Thomas had exhibited an awesome ability for adapting other stories earlier in his career (such as Robert E. Howard's prose for the Conan the Barbarian comic), I can see why Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (1954) was adapted here.

The interior page image depicts the introduction of Jaxxon the green rabbit character.
  
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