Away from NYCC, our friends at Jedi-Bibliothek found a new publication from Marvel and IDW Publishing, Star Wars: The Classic Newspaper Comics Volume 1, of what will be a three volume series.
The title promises AT LAST to collect the complete 1979 to 1984 newspaper strip of classic Star Wars, both dailies and Sunday panels.
The first of three volumes that present for the first time ever the classic Star Wars newspaper strip from 1979-1984 in its complete format–including each Sunday title header and “bonus” panels in their meticulously restored original color. Initially the color Sundays and B&W dailies told separate stories, but within six months the incomparable Russ Manning merged the adventures to tell brand new epic seven-days-a-week sagas that rivaled the best science fiction comics of all time. Volume One contains 575 sequential comic strips from the strip’s premiere on March 11, 1979 to October 5, 1980.
