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STAR WARS DAILY STRIP #8 ORIGINAL ART BY AL WILLIAMSON.

Artist: Al Williamson (All)

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Title:	STAR WARS DAILY STRIP #8 ORIGINAL ART BY AL WILLIAMSON.
Artist:	Al Williamson (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Comic Strip
For Sale Status:	Auction 235 Online July 5, 2022 and closes July 26-27, 2022!
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Added to Site:	6/2/2022
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STAR WARS DAILY STRIP #8 ORIGINAL ART BY AL WILLIAMSON.
The Star Wars comic strip appeared in newspapers 1979-1984, written and illustrated by Russ Manning (1929-1981) until poor health forced him to retire. But Manning was not the first choice to illustrate this iconic Sci-Fi strip. That distinction fell to the legendary Al Williamson (1931-2010), of EC Comics fame and known for his work on the Flash Gordon comic strip of the 1960s. While Williamson did fully illustrate 12 strips (two weeks' worth) of original art, the deal fell through and this initial proposal was scrapped. Williamson would return to the Star Wars strip in 1981, working on the strip until its conclusion in 1984. Thankfully, Williamson's initial two weeks' worth of strip artwork was preserved. Star Wars creator George Lucas retains the original art for the first weeks' worth of strips while art for the second week went to Charles Lippincott (1939-2020), the man whose marketing savvy helped make Star Wars the pop culture juggernaut it is to this day. Offered here is Williamson's pen and ink (w/screentone accents) original art for his eighth Star Wars daily strip, which retold the opening sequence of Star Wars. 7.25x20-1/8" artboard features three panels, showing Princess Leia firing upon Stormtroopers before being stunned and brought before Darth Vader. Princess Leia is seen in every panel, Stormtroopers appear in first two panels and Vader is seen in last panel. Williamson has signed first panel. Upper left corner has been hand-numbered "8" in black ink. Artboard has tiny pin hole at corner points of image area, not affecting art. Artboard has some lt. scattered handling wear and is VF w/Exc. art. The strips eventually saw print in The Art Of Al Williamson book by James Van Hise (1983) and more recently in Marvel/IDW's Star Wars: The Classic Newspaper Comics Vol. 2 (2017) hardcover. This is the first time this art has come to auction and will provide diehard Star Wars fans and comic art collectors a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to add this fabled art to their collection. Al Williamson Star Wars strip art virtually never comes up for sale, let alone art of this magnitude. From the collection of Charles Lippincott.

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