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STAR WARS WEEKLY #96 PAGE 6

Artists: Carmine Infantino (Penciller) , Pablo Marcos (Inker)

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Title:	STAR WARS WEEKLY #96 PAGE 6
Artist:	Carmine Infantino (Penciller)
Artist:	Pablo Marcos (Inker)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	243
Likes on CAF:	5 6
Comments:	10
Added to Site:	6/29/2023
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My patience pays off. Finally Scored a Vintage Star Wars page and with Han Solo, Chewbacca, and the Millennium Falcon.

This is it. The most refreshing Way. To make the most of everyday. And wherever you go and whatever you do, this Art is here waiting for you to drool. This is iiiiiiit.

Drink Coke kids.

I was very fortunate to meet Carmine Michael Infantino once, a long time ago, in a Comic con far far away. He was very frail at the time and in a wheelchair covered with a blanket. I could not believe he was at a Con. My one regret is that I did not take a photo with the Legend. I believe he passed away less than a year later.

Legendary comic book artist Carmine Infantino illustrated this late Bronze Age Star Wars finale page featuring Han Solo, Chewbacca and a fellow Wookie, and the Millennium Falcon. Marvel's Star Wars series was published in the U.S. from 1977 to 1986. These comics were reprinted in the U.K. as a weekly black-and-white comics anthology. The U.K. comic also published original Star Wars stories such as the one featuring this page, which appeared in Star Wars Weekly #96 (1979). Infantino worked on Star Wars in the period following his tenure as DC's publisher. Inks are by Pablo Marcos, an accomplished artist best known for his work on Conan in the 1970s.

About the Artists
Carmine Infantino is considered by many to be one of the top comic book artists of all time. He got his start as a teenager working at DC during the Golden Age on characters like the original Flash. He was the artist behind the revival of the Flash in 1956 that directly kicked-off the Silver Age of Comics. He took over the Adam Strange feature when it moved from its try-out spot in Showcase to its permanent spot in Mystery in Space, a role he kept for five years while also drawing The Flash, only giving it up to take on Batman during the 1964 "New Look" period. In the late 60s and 70s, Infantino was promoted to Editorial Director and then Publisher of DC Comics, the first time an artist took charge at a major company. In the late 70s and early 80s he returned to being an artist and worked for Marvel on Nova, Spider-Woman and, of course, Star Wars.

Pablo Marcos first made a name for himself with American audiences in the early 70s working on Marvel's black and white magazines, including a long run on Tales of the Zombie. He also did extensive work on various Conan books at Marvel, Marcos also worked for DC in the mid-70s on such features as "Man-Bat" in Detective Comics. Marcos, who is now 84, is retired from comics.

About Star Wars
The Star Wars franchise has been an important part of the popular culture landscape since the original Star Wars movie in 1977, but the franchise and the characters received a major boost over the past decade with the release of the final three films in the nine-part "Skywalker saga" that George Lucas set out to tell "A long time ago...". The Star Wars franchise received another boost due to the huge success of The Mandalorian on the Disney Plus streaming service shows. Two additional Star Wars series have also streamed on Disney Plus, and Andor, with much more still to come. Several new Star Wars movies are also in the works. There's no question that audiences are as hungry as ever for quality Star Wars material.

Star Wars has a long history with comic books. Marvel's Star Wars title, the first issue of which actually came out before the first movie in 1977, was an important source of expanded adventures for the legions of Star Wars fans in the late 1970s and 1980s. The series ran for 107 issues plus a few annuals. The Star Wars license then spent a couple of decades at Dark Horse who turned out many of the best stories ever told in the franchise. The license returned to Marvel in 2015 with a new #1 that sold over a million copies. In 2022, the license returned to Dark Horse.

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Rick W
Member Since 2017

1 - Posted on 6/29/2023

Super page!

Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 6/30/2023

By looking at this, I could imagine being there reading this in the UK in 1979 playing with my Palitoy Star Wars figures, my Han Solo pistol to shoot first, and wearing my Chewbacca bandolier while enjoying some tasty Ovaltine just waiting for the Empire Strikes Back to come into theaters in less than a year's time.

ALFREDO QUINTERO
Member Since 2006

1 - Posted on 6/30/2023

Marcus Wai wrote:

LOL. You never disappoint.

Jeffrey Wedding
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 6/30/2023

Whoot! That's a great Han and Chewie page that showed up in the US in one of those pocket digest books, but didn't see full size print over here until one of the much later omnibus editions. Congrats on a classic!

ALFREDO QUINTERO
Member Since 2006

1 - Posted on 6/30/2023

Jeffrey Wedding wrote:

What' up Jeffrey. Do you know which Omnibus was that? I think I am going to buy that.

Jeffrey Wedding
Member Since 2009

2 - Posted on 7/1/2023

ALFREDO QUINTERO wrote:

What' up Jeffrey. Do you know which Omnibus was that? I think I am going to buy that.

That story was in Star Wars Weekly issues 94-96, a story titled "Way of the Wookiee!" and that's the last page of issue 96. It has been reprinted here in Dark Horse's 2013 publication Star Wars Omnibus: Wild Space Volume 1. I think Marvel is in the midst of reprinting these as well. Will try and figure out what the newer one is.

Jeffrey Wedding
Member Since 2009

2 - Posted on 7/1/2023

Jeffrey Wedding wrote:

That story was in Star Wars Weekly issues�94-96, a story titled "Way of the Wookiee!" and that's the last page of issue 96. It has been reprinted here in Dark Horse's 2013 publication Star Wars Omnibus: Wild Space Volume 1. I think Marvel is in the midst of reprinting these as well. Will try and figure out what the newer one is.

Marvel appears to have reprinted it twice in 2017, in Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Original Marvel Years Vol. 2 and also Star Wars Legends: The Marvel UK Collection Omnibus.

A N H
Member Since 2018

1 - Posted on 7/2/2023

Great Infantino Star Wars example! Doesn't get much cooler than a page featuring Han, Chewie, and the Falcon.

H P
Member Since 2006

1 - Posted on 7/14/2023

What a great bronze age SW page! It's a fine Infantino example too! Congrats!!

Toni S
Member Since 2019

1 - Posted on 10/10/2023

Amazing SW's page. Han, Chewwie and the Millennial Falcon three of a kind! The third panel can´t be better! Great score!!!!

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