No time for love, Doctor Jones!

Well, my poor memory has at least afforded me the opportunity to Thank You a second time!  Thanks!

Marvel writers understood from the jump what Lucas was doing with STAR WARS: cribbing ideas from other types of entertainment like WW2 air war movies and Japaese samauri films, and retrofitting them into a space fantasy troupe.  MARVEL simply continued that process, lifting ideas from 'Magnificent Seven' 'Godzilla' 'Man of La Mancha' and classic pirate movies.

I still maintain that early MARVEL produced some of the best STAR WARS stories in the entire ovure.

I'd forgotten I'd done this version.  Turned out pretty well!

...of a MICRONAUTS tradition.

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Producing an Homage to the original Cockrum cover...

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...is a little bit...

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The final issue where Sal was inking himself; the end of an era,   But also the beginning of a time when the look of the book became much more polished, improving the title immensely, IMO.

It could still happen!  HASBRO, are you listening?

You kool kids can have your Batmans, your Wolverines, your Spider-Mans.

The Shadow is my favorite superhero.  There.  I said it.

Took me a minute, there.

Certain episodes of GALACTICA were shockingly obvious riffs on familiar movie tropes, such as 'GUN ON ICE PLANET ZERO' being a pastiche of 'GUNS OF NAVARONE' and "THE LOST WARRIOR' being a homage of 'SHANE.'  So, yes, taken in that light, there is a certain irony to having pages from earlier comics repurposed as GALACTICA storylines.

You'd never be able to publish something like this nowadays (online, though...)  You can see how publishers were pushing what they could get away with, and why some members of the public were in a bit of a tizzy.  A real artifact of it's time.

Think she likes being on top (of my collection)?  ::rimshot::

R.I.P. Nanotron.

Always more than happy to make a GENEROUS offer on this page!  Thanks for sharing!

MIchael is channeling his younger self, evoking a sleeker version of the Baron's design which was used for the first 4-5 issues of the book.  Nice sketch cover!

USAF fighters are A-37 Dragonfly, used during VietNam.

USAF fighters are A-37 Dragonfly, used during VietNam.

Thanks for not saying 'Nipple Cannons.'

Oh, wait; did I just...

I think modern STAR WARS owes a HUGE debt to Archie Goodwin.  Hear me out on this one.

If you look at early comic efforts for, say, STAR TREK or BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, they often make for embarassing reading, because the writers were not well matched to the materiel (or perhaps they had poor guidance from the licensee.) 

Not so with Star Wars.  Archie Goodwin (and Roy Thomas before him) came firing out of the gate with STAR WARS stories which are still very much recognizable as 'part of that world.'  They still feel like STAR WARS.  They were writing the book on what STAR WARS was going to 'feel like' for decades to come.

Big Brother, if you're reading this... (and you are)... he's quoting a Comic Book.  Nothing to see here.

It's been pointed out that there is a rare Spelling Error present in the lettering.  Can you spot it?

Neal was drawing professionally before I was born. >sigh<

Don't know the title, but this is a fabulous page.  Great design.

Rick, Hunt down the first 12 (Michael Golden) issues.  You'll be glad you did.  One of the best story arcs in all of comics.  You can thank me later.

Easiest is probably to find the 'Special Edition' reprints (5 issues rather than 12) better paper but the coloring isn't the same as the original.

Everybody grumbles about 'That time when MARVEL was running those crummy banners about 10-Speed Bikes and ToysRUs across the top of all their covers'... but the truth is people REALLY remember that time because MARVEL's storytelling was across-the board knocking it out of the park.  A real 'Golden Age' of comic storytelling.  This issue and cover was a part of that.  Congrats.

A superior Guice 'Title Page.'

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I like to make it clear what people are looking at, and 'Fake' takes up less room than 'Unpublished' (which sounds too much like a D Brothers sort of description).  Thanks for the kind words!

I also own a page of pencils from this run, and also tried to find out if the inks were available.  I heard through the grapevine that my particular issue's inks were sold as a complete issue, so unlikely that it would be broken up. (Not that I would want to see such a fate befall a complete issue of anything)

Possibly the same with this page's inks?

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Depends on who your friends are! 
(...but the last ones are the hardest ones.)

Bug was portrayed as 'normal' human size whenever he was bopping around with the Guardians of the Galaxy.  As to 'why?'  Easier to draw and write for, that way, I suppose.  ;-)

All Gil Kane.  The color guide for this one was sold not long ago, maybe the new owner will let you put them together?

Iconic, ICONIC page!  Wish I had the $$.  Grab it while you can, Star Wars Fans!

I thought 'flowing water' was supposed to be one of the Vampire Allergies...

Oh, really?  ::blinks innocently::

Well, at least we know Victor wears The Glove consistently.  This IS a Disney/Marvel book.

Certainly THE pivotal splash from the miniseries.  Personally, glad it was an all-X-Men page, which allowed this Micronauts collector to bow out.

Love hardware-filled War Comics pages!  Wow!  A keeper!

You're..... mocking me, aren't you?

I see what you did there.

Jeffrey, I promise you: YOU HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING YET!

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My takeaway from this page is a little more nuts'n'bolts.  Golden goes to great lengths to disguise that this page only has people talking.  It takes tremendous storytelling skill to find a way to make a 'debate page' interesting.  Plenty to learn from even the quiet pages.

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