Star Wars Weekly 109 pg 01 (RECAP PAGE) by INFANTINO

For display purposes, I have generated a copy of the original Title Box and Page One Indicia and placed them on a clear overlay to accompany the page.

The publishing schedule for Star Wars Weekly was accomplished by splitting the stories designed for its monthly US sister magazine into thirds. Since the US version of the book only had one title page per book, additional recap/title pages would have to be generated to bring a reader up to speed for the following installments of a split story. This is one such recap page, produced to sum up the events of Star Wars Weekly # 107 & 108.

The book credits GENE DAY as the inker of the story, yet this individual page notes the inker (of this recap page, at least; it was probably created after the main pages of the story) as 'J.T.' I wonder who that could be? Any ideas, OA Hive Mind?

The title page credits include Howard Bender as a 'Tonist.' This must have meant prepping a stat of the original page for publication in a black & white U.K. magazine. Note the extensive use of Zipitone™ in the published page, work which is missing from the original art itself.