‘Star Wars’ flashback: Marvel Issues 51-59 (1981-82) (Comic book reviews)
Taking over for Archie Goodwin — who took his talents to the “Star Wars” newspaper strip — David Michelinie proves he’s up to his predecessor’s high standards on his first batch of issues in the Marvel series. Granted, he makes some bad mistakes; Bespin has a planetary surface and Luke still uses an unexplained lightsaber at times. (Could some
‘Star Wars’ flashback: Marvel Issues 7-10 (1977-78) (Comic book reviews)
The “Star Wars” Marvel comics run has the distinction of offering the very first Expanded Universe stories. After the six-issue movie adaptation, the next four issues (7-10) were the only new fiction from October 1977 through January 1978 (those are the on-sale dates, not the cover dates) aside from some short comic stories in Marvel’s Pizzazz magazine. Finally, in