This item from the Hollywood Reporter http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/marvel-announces-star-wars-original-718683 "might" interest Star Wars fans!
Ahead of the expected announcement of new Star Wars comics
from Marvel Entertainment—the publisher announced that it would take
over the comic book license from current rights holder Dark Horse Comics
earlier this year—Marvel has announced the publication of Star Wars: The Original Marvel Years.
The oversized hardcover will collect the first forty-four issues of Marvel’s 1970s spin-off from George Lucas’ first installment in the space opera series, as well as the first annual, spanning the period between the 1977 release of Star Wars: A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back’s release in 1980.
STORY Disney Moves 'Star Wars' Comics License to Marvel
The stories collected in the 880 page collection include not only the original Star Wars adaptation—including scenes that didn’t make it to the final cut of the movie, such as the appearance of a very human Jabba the Hut (One “t”)—but also the debut of cult-favorite characters such as Jaxxon and droid-hating bounty hunter Beilert Valance. The final issues collected in the omnibus feature Marvel’s adaptation of The Empire Strikes Back.
"With Star Wars poised to return to its comic book home, what better time to revisit the first adventures of Luke, Leia, Han, Chewbacca, C-3PO, R2-D2 and, of course, Darth Vader?" Marvel editor in chief Axel Alonso said in a statement accompanying the announcement, adding that he was “extremely proud to present these original Star Wars stories, told as only Marvel can, in the first in a massive and glorious Omnibus series.”
Marvel’s original Star Wars series ran 107 issues and three annuals, suggesting that this is the first of a three-volume series of collections. Star Wars: The Original Marvel Years Volume 1 will be released in comic book stores January 2015.
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Ahead of news of the publisher's new "Star Wars" comics, Marvel reveals plans for a series of hardcover collections of its first visit to a Galaxy Far, Far Away from 1977.
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STORY Disney Moves 'Star Wars' Comics License to Marvel
The stories collected in the 880 page collection include not only the original Star Wars adaptation—including scenes that didn’t make it to the final cut of the movie, such as the appearance of a very human Jabba the Hut (One “t”)—but also the debut of cult-favorite characters such as Jaxxon and droid-hating bounty hunter Beilert Valance. The final issues collected in the omnibus feature Marvel’s adaptation of The Empire Strikes Back.
"With Star Wars poised to return to its comic book home, what better time to revisit the first adventures of Luke, Leia, Han, Chewbacca, C-3PO, R2-D2 and, of course, Darth Vader?" Marvel editor in chief Axel Alonso said in a statement accompanying the announcement, adding that he was “extremely proud to present these original Star Wars stories, told as only Marvel can, in the first in a massive and glorious Omnibus series.”
Marvel’s original Star Wars series ran 107 issues and three annuals, suggesting that this is the first of a three-volume series of collections. Star Wars: The Original Marvel Years Volume 1 will be released in comic book stores January 2015.
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Germany beats you Disney. These comics have been coming out in trade and hardcover for years now. Caught you napping. How long ago did you buy Lucasfilm ? And they only now had the idea to reprint these ? This really explains the amount of brain power behind AMAZING SPIDER - MAN 2.
ReplyDeleteHey -they don't want to flood the market, you know!! These people probably got off on just THINKING how much money they could make then got so aroused they decided to publish. I don't think my application to work for Di$ney is going to go through.
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