In many ways the Star Wars comics formed more a part of my childhood than the films. Before video, I had to wait until the films were shown on TV, whereas I could open and read the comics at any time, and would spend hours browsing their pages.
@@zacharyjochumsen9677 This is true. Marvel would almost certainly gone bankrupt uf the Star Wars comic was not so successful. Nobody really wanted to buy the company in the 70s.
I started buying each new Marvel Star Wars issue at my local comic shop starting with issue 52 in 1981. When Mary Jo Duffy came on board in '83, she introduced some cool new characters, like Kiro, Rik Duel, and Dani the Zeltron. (Ooh la la!) I would stick with it religiously until issue 102 or so (only a few months before the title would end). At the time I wasn't really digging Cynthia Martin's stylized art. It was a drastic change from previous Star Wars comic artists like Walt Simonson or Ron Frenz, whose art had the more realistic detail that was common for Marvel Comics at the time. (However, I would go back and fill in the issues I missed sometime in the early '90s.) Looking back now, I can appreciate Martin's manga-like style much more for what it is, and I think her work on issue 96 (where Luke battles Lumiya) is particularly superb! (That lightwhip is cool as Hell!)
@That Junkman Strangely enough? Marvel's classic Star Wars comic series may very well have accidentally foreshadowed the ''Ewoks and Endor''... A full two years before Return of the Jedi, in ''Star Wars #55'' (1981). With the (Hoojibs of the planet Arbra). ''Hoojibs'' were sentient, telepathic, energy-feeding Lagomorpha like creatures indigenous to the planet ''Arbra''. (Arbra is a Forest planet) similar to that of the ''Forest Moon of Endor''. Hoojibs lived peacefully in a Geothermal cave. But were menaced by the fearsome predators called the ''Slivilith''. The Hoojibs defeated the ''Slivilith'' with the help of the Rebel Alliance.
Jaxxon makes one last appearance in Marvel when Luke and Han visit Tattooine again. The Starkiller Kid is married and Jaxxon is in trouble but Amaiza saves him. It's in the original Marvel Star Wars comic #17 which has great art.
I'll always love the old school Marvel run of Star Wars. Its one of the first comics I read regularly. I agree, it got kinda weird toward the end there but they expanded on the mythology and utilized some of the side characters so well.
I remember riding my bike to the comic shop every month for the next new Star Wars issue. Had the whole series but sold them al in the mid-1990's to pay the rent.
The star wars comic books were the only things that kids could relive the movie experience anytime anywhere, this was before VHS tape, DVD and streaming was available.
I loved Marvel Comics as a kid. I also loved Star Wars. For some reason those two beautiful things could not produce a beautiful baby when they came together. I still bought them, but the stories ranged from "meh" to "wtf?"
I collected the whole run. All 107 issues. Not my favorite Star Wars series, but it was fun. Too bad Lucas ruined it. Had Lucas let Marvel just do what they do, it would have been better
I loved the Marvel comics! Are you sure it was 1986 that they ended? I have the final issue still somewhere and I could swear it was 1988. Of course I could be wrong.
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those rules suck, but i get it. honestly, do you want poorly paid 70s Marvel writers deciding how the force works in comic books or screwing with the relationships among the main characters in between movies? 70s Marvel was full of weird stuff, as proven by the giant green rabbit they immediately introduced to the Star Wars comic book.
This was a great series to read while waiting for the movies. The last year was total crap. Terrible art and didnt seem like star wars at all so it was good they canceled it.
Look at the last year. THE BOOK WAS TRASH at the end. If not for the logo, you'd never know it was a Star Wars comic. The designs had changed and didn't look like SW at all, not the character designs, not the coloring--the book was a garish mess. Sure, LFL had put up some significant barriers, but that's no excuse for the book being tone deaf. Marvel knows how to make good villains and great adventures, so there's no reason for the book to stink the way it did. The scene in the last issue (or thereabouts) where the heroes are dancing across the panel like they're having a party was the last straw for me. Let's just say that Rian Johnson was closer to real Star Wars than what Marvel was doing. Gag. I was GLAD the book ended, it sucked so badly at that point.
Yes, I know Roy Thomas did some tone-deaf stories early on, but the SW comic corrected itself when Archie Goodwin took over. And the time between ESB and ROTJ was dead-on great SW content (Hoojibs were a bit iffy, about like the space penguins in Force Awakens). The look and feel of the book was as good as anyone could ask for, imo, during that time.
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In many ways the Star Wars comics formed more a part of my childhood than the films. Before video, I had to wait until the films were shown on TV, whereas I could open and read the comics at any time, and would spend hours browsing their pages.
Dale the space wizard fin fsct this comic bok series acthully save marvel from going under
@@zacharyjochumsen9677 This is true. Marvel would almost certainly gone bankrupt uf the Star Wars comic was not so successful. Nobody really wanted to buy the company in the 70s.
I started buying each new Marvel Star Wars issue at my local comic shop starting with issue 52 in 1981. When Mary Jo Duffy came on board in '83, she introduced some cool new characters, like Kiro, Rik Duel, and Dani the Zeltron. (Ooh la la!) I would stick with it religiously until issue 102 or so (only a few months before the title would end). At the time I wasn't really digging Cynthia Martin's stylized art. It was a drastic change from previous Star Wars comic artists like Walt Simonson or Ron Frenz, whose art had the more realistic detail that was common for Marvel Comics at the time. (However, I would go back and fill in the issues I missed sometime in the early '90s.) Looking back now, I can appreciate Martin's manga-like style much more for what it is, and I think her work on issue 96 (where Luke battles Lumiya) is particularly superb! (That lightwhip is cool as Hell!)
@That Junkman Strangely enough? Marvel's classic Star Wars comic series may very well have accidentally foreshadowed the ''Ewoks and Endor''... A full two years before Return of the Jedi, in ''Star Wars #55'' (1981). With the (Hoojibs of the planet Arbra). ''Hoojibs'' were sentient, telepathic, energy-feeding Lagomorpha like creatures indigenous to the planet ''Arbra''. (Arbra is a Forest planet) similar to that of the ''Forest Moon of Endor''. Hoojibs lived peacefully in a Geothermal cave. But were menaced by the fearsome predators called the ''Slivilith''. The Hoojibs defeated the ''Slivilith'' with the help of the Rebel Alliance.
Interesting, sounds like it was Star Wars in name only with the rules from Lucasfilm
Jaxxon makes one last appearance in Marvel when Luke and Han visit Tattooine again. The Starkiller Kid is married and Jaxxon is in trouble but Amaiza saves him. It's in the original Marvel Star Wars comic #17 which has great art.
Great content Junkman. That was a real interesting video.
Star Wars #105 had a total of 303, 029 copies printed, 142,366 of which sold and 160,050 returned.
I'm just gonna go ahead and say it... those comics sucked butts through a bendy straw.
I'll always love the old school Marvel run of Star Wars. Its one of the first comics I read regularly. I agree, it got kinda weird toward the end there but they expanded on the mythology and utilized some of the side characters so well.
I remember riding my bike to the comic shop every month for the next new Star Wars issue. Had the whole series but sold them al in the mid-1990's to pay the rent.
The star wars comic books were the only things that kids could relive the movie experience anytime anywhere, this was before VHS tape, DVD and streaming was available.
Great Vid Mate. I still have my old British versions of the Marvel Star Wars comics :)
Great job as always Junkman!
Can you make a video of the significance of the vintage Star Wars comics? Ie: first appearances
Marvel comic we’re like Christmas coming once a week in the 70s/80s
I remember as a little kid seeing the star wars comic in a department store with Jaxxon the rabbit and thinking it was funny and cool at the time.
I loved Marvel Comics as a kid. I also loved Star Wars. For some reason those two beautiful things could not produce a beautiful baby when they came together. I still bought them, but the stories ranged from "meh" to "wtf?"
I loved them.
"The more things change the more they stay the same."
-Snake Plissken
"Sales were fine" does not equal "great."
I collected the whole run. All 107 issues. Not my favorite Star Wars series, but it was fun. Too bad Lucas ruined it. Had Lucas let Marvel just do what they do, it would have been better
I loved the Marvel comics! Are you sure it was 1986 that they ended? I have the final issue still somewhere and I could swear it was 1988. Of course I could be wrong.
June 17 1986
@@ThatJunkman Did you ever hear of an 80's toyline called Otherworld? It was short lived with sets of posable figures.
This dude deserves 300k followers, wtf
Dumkopft says: OOH OOH I KNOW I KNOW...UH... Kathleen Kennedy had..hey...
Zero Mike: This is Zero Mike...subscribe if you...hey..
ClownRoyal Fish: well Geeky Geeky... isn't here again and the real reason the comic failed...
Bullshot Bullshot: okay they put too many girls ...
Me: I DON'T CARE...unless That Junk man shares it with me.
I love the Marvel comics. I wish they’d release the entire series in a hardback collection
Jaxxon is great.
Yeah, such a shat move on canceling the comics original run...😒👎🏼💯✔️
Is this a Dark Horse subject ???
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@@ThatJunkman in Side joke !!!
those rules suck, but i get it. honestly, do you want poorly paid 70s Marvel writers deciding how the force works in comic books or screwing with the relationships among the main characters in between movies? 70s Marvel was full of weird stuff, as proven by the giant green rabbit they immediately introduced to the Star Wars comic book.
Well the Andor Disney is fantastic soo far so far. I am expecting a comic book series on that . May the force be with you
I'm sorry but I preferred Dark Hrose over Marvel.
Kathleen Kennedy did it
This was a great series to read while waiting for the movies. The last year was total crap. Terrible art and didnt seem like star wars at all so it was good they canceled it.
The artwork became really bad and Marvel never really created a threat to rival the Empire after ROTJ.
Look at the last year. THE BOOK WAS TRASH at the end. If not for the logo, you'd never know it was a Star Wars comic. The designs had changed and didn't look like SW at all, not the character designs, not the coloring--the book was a garish mess. Sure, LFL had put up some significant barriers, but that's no excuse for the book being tone deaf. Marvel knows how to make good villains and great adventures, so there's no reason for the book to stink the way it did. The scene in the last issue (or thereabouts) where the heroes are dancing across the panel like they're having a party was the last straw for me. Let's just say that Rian Johnson was closer to real Star Wars than what Marvel was doing. Gag. I was GLAD the book ended, it sucked so badly at that point.
Yes, I know Roy Thomas did some tone-deaf stories early on, but the SW comic corrected itself when Archie Goodwin took over. And the time between ESB and ROTJ was dead-on great SW content (Hoojibs were a bit iffy, about like the space penguins in Force Awakens). The look and feel of the book was as good as anyone could ask for, imo, during that time.
I believe George Lucas is extremely cheap.
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Learned today from That Junkman told me today that anthro rabbits are canon to Star Wars
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