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Star Wars Graphic Novelisations #4-6
Star Wars: The Original Trilogy - The Movie Adaptations
The classic Marvel adaptations of all three films in the original Star Wars trilogy, collected in one blockbuster volume - fully remastered for the modern age by colorist Chris Sotomayor! Relive the events of A NEW HOPE, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and RETURN OF THE JEDI as the timeless saga of Luke Skywalker and his rebel allies battling the Empire and its ruthless enforcer Darth Vader unfold in action-packed style - including scenes that never made the silver screen! Travel from the desert world of Tatooine, to the ice planet Hoth, to the forest moon of Endor on an unforgettable journey across the galaxy - one that's far, far away and a long time ago! May the Force be with you, in the mighty Marvel manner!COLLECTING: STAR WARS (1977) 1-6, 39-44; STAR WARS: RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983) 1-4
384 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1996
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Archie Goodwin
970 books69 followersArchie Goodwin was an American comic book writer, editor, and artist. He worked on a number of comic strips in addition to comic books, and is best known for his Warren and Marvel Comics work. For Warren he was chief writer and editor of landmark horror anthology titles Creepy and Eerie, and for Marvel he set up the creator-owned Epic Comics as well as adapting Star Wars into both comics and newspaper strips. He is regularly cited as the "best-loved comic book editor, ever."
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May 3, 2021
This is exactly what it says on the tin
A fun and enjoyable read
A fun and enjoyable read
June 22, 2022
S TAR WAtR?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? no.
August 22, 2018
UPDATE: Reread and loved the three books even more. This box set is released by Dark Horse Comics, but the drawing are the original Marvel Comics.
Great fun to read the Classic Star Wars stories again as comic. The three books almost follow the plotline closely and the drawing are nice to observe. Really an asset to my Star Wars' books collection.
Read it before, but after some time I like to reread and enjoy it again.
Great fun to read the Classic Star Wars stories again as comic. The three books almost follow the plotline closely and the drawing are nice to observe. Really an asset to my Star Wars' books collection.
Read it before, but after some time I like to reread and enjoy it again.
August 14, 2024
A great series of adaptations of the movies. It showed some different views on events and some new lore as well. Some good art as well.
November 22, 2022
Reprints Star Wars (1) #1-6, 39-44, and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi #1-4 (July 1977-January 1984). A boy named Luke Skywalker grows up on the lonely desert planet of Tatooine and finds himself drawn into an intergalactic battle for freedom as the Rebels battle the Empire. From the Death Star’s fall to the birth of a new Death Star, the balance in the universe is in danger…and the Force is with the Rebels!
Written by Roy Thomas and Archie Goodwin, Star Wars: The Original Trilogy—The Movie Adaptations is a Marvel Comics sci-fi collection. Featuring art by Howard Chaykin, Al Williamson, Carlos Garzon, Ron Frenz, and Tom Palmer, the collection feature Star Wars (Star Wars #1-6 July 1977-December 1977), Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Star Wars #39-44 September 1980-February 1981), and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (Star Wars: Return of the Jedi #1-4 October 1983-January 1984), and the issues have been reprinted in multiple versions since their release.
The treasury edition of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back was one of my first “comics”. The oversized collection was a means for me to “see” Star Wars over and over again…even though I couldn’t read. With the adaptations often based on the script instead of the actual movie, there are some weird points (like the human Jabba) that never made it into the original movies…fans of Star Wars should definitely check them out.
The comics were a little strange in that the Star Wars and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back adaptations were rolled into the continuing Star Wars comic (which likewise was strange because the writers didn’t always know where Star Wars was going). I read the first and second adaptations over-and-over again due to them being a little more prevalent…but Return of the Jedi was a stand-alone mini-series and wasn’t always collected with other Star Wars comics.
The other aspect of this collection is that all the art has been remastered. The colors are brighter and the quality of the print is much higher than the individual issues (or many of the reprints). It is a bit jarring having grown up with the comics and while it is pretty, I sometimes miss the newsprint and old look.
Star Wars is a series that everyone generally knows forward and backwards. You can read these comics quite quickly…not because they aren’t wordy (they are), but because you find yourself sometimes skimming because they are so familiar. Newer fans and those who don’t know the movies as well might enjoy it more for the details that I now gloss over. Star Wars will endure…and this collection will continue to be modified and reprinted (if only we could get an adaptation of The Star Wars: The Holiday Special).
Written by Roy Thomas and Archie Goodwin, Star Wars: The Original Trilogy—The Movie Adaptations is a Marvel Comics sci-fi collection. Featuring art by Howard Chaykin, Al Williamson, Carlos Garzon, Ron Frenz, and Tom Palmer, the collection feature Star Wars (Star Wars #1-6 July 1977-December 1977), Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Star Wars #39-44 September 1980-February 1981), and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (Star Wars: Return of the Jedi #1-4 October 1983-January 1984), and the issues have been reprinted in multiple versions since their release.
The treasury edition of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back was one of my first “comics”. The oversized collection was a means for me to “see” Star Wars over and over again…even though I couldn’t read. With the adaptations often based on the script instead of the actual movie, there are some weird points (like the human Jabba) that never made it into the original movies…fans of Star Wars should definitely check them out.
The comics were a little strange in that the Star Wars and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back adaptations were rolled into the continuing Star Wars comic (which likewise was strange because the writers didn’t always know where Star Wars was going). I read the first and second adaptations over-and-over again due to them being a little more prevalent…but Return of the Jedi was a stand-alone mini-series and wasn’t always collected with other Star Wars comics.
The other aspect of this collection is that all the art has been remastered. The colors are brighter and the quality of the print is much higher than the individual issues (or many of the reprints). It is a bit jarring having grown up with the comics and while it is pretty, I sometimes miss the newsprint and old look.
Star Wars is a series that everyone generally knows forward and backwards. You can read these comics quite quickly…not because they aren’t wordy (they are), but because you find yourself sometimes skimming because they are so familiar. Newer fans and those who don’t know the movies as well might enjoy it more for the details that I now gloss over. Star Wars will endure…and this collection will continue to be modified and reprinted (if only we could get an adaptation of The Star Wars: The Holiday Special).
August 11, 2021
These were a fun read BUT I have to give a lower rating because they added very little to the original movies. What I mean is - sometimes reading a book or graphic novel of a movie is a different experience and adds insights or creates a different feeling but this reads like a good storyboard of the movies. That is great - because they are great movies but still I would prefer to see the movies again.
I will say the art is top notch and there are a few scenes cut from he movies that appear here (a couple in A New Hope like where Luke is pining for the stars at the start of the movie, and a whole scene of a monster invading the Hoth case in Empire strikes back) but especially when you get to the action of Return of the Jedi it simply cannot be captured in a comic book and the drama is lost.
One funny thing - for me. I have watched Empire dozens of times (like many - it is my favourite movie in the trilogy) and it is only reading it in this comic that I finally noticed a huge flaw. Luke's training on Dagobah takes months but the parallel action of his friends on the Millennium Falcon seems to only take hours but they all meet up at the end of the movie. I immediately went on the internet to see fan theories (I know others must have caught this before me) and there are two: 1) The trip the Falcon takes to Bespin at sub-light speeds takes months and 2) time moves differently on Dagobah. The problem with the first is the movie never mentions it - although it would be interesting to see it as a cut scene and it would explain how Han and Leia bond so much if they had an extra few months on the Falcon to do so. I kind of like the second idea better and all it would take is one sentence by Yoda to fix it (with him explaining to Luke about a time dilation on Dagobah).
Okay - I just had to point that out because I don't think I would have noticed it if I hadn't read the comic book.
Overall - a solid adaptation but it is still better to see the movies for the 20th time than to read the comic :). At least for me.
I will say the art is top notch and there are a few scenes cut from he movies that appear here (a couple in A New Hope like where Luke is pining for the stars at the start of the movie, and a whole scene of a monster invading the Hoth case in Empire strikes back) but especially when you get to the action of Return of the Jedi it simply cannot be captured in a comic book and the drama is lost.
One funny thing - for me. I have watched Empire dozens of times (like many - it is my favourite movie in the trilogy) and it is only reading it in this comic that I finally noticed a huge flaw. Luke's training on Dagobah takes months but the parallel action of his friends on the Millennium Falcon seems to only take hours but they all meet up at the end of the movie. I immediately went on the internet to see fan theories (I know others must have caught this before me) and there are two: 1) The trip the Falcon takes to Bespin at sub-light speeds takes months and 2) time moves differently on Dagobah. The problem with the first is the movie never mentions it - although it would be interesting to see it as a cut scene and it would explain how Han and Leia bond so much if they had an extra few months on the Falcon to do so. I kind of like the second idea better and all it would take is one sentence by Yoda to fix it (with him explaining to Luke about a time dilation on Dagobah).
Okay - I just had to point that out because I don't think I would have noticed it if I hadn't read the comic book.
Overall - a solid adaptation but it is still better to see the movies for the 20th time than to read the comic :). At least for me.
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February 24, 2016This quarter I started to read a couple of star wars books that i got for christmas. I was glad that i got these books because a couple days before i saw the force awakening. I think that this book was really good and that there is star wars, The empire strikes back, and return of the jedi all in one book. Three years after the destruction of the Death Star, the Rebel Alliance has been driven from their former base on Yavin IV by the Galactic Empire. Princess Leia leads a contingent including Han Solo and Luke Skywalker in a new base on the ice planet Hoth. The Imperial Fleet, led by Darth Vader, continues to hunt for the Rebels’ new base by dispatching probe droids across the galaxy.Return of the Jedi is a 1983 American epic space opera film directed by Richard Marquand. The screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas was from a story by Lucas, who was also the executive producer. It was the third film released in the Star Wars saga and the first film to use THX technology. The film is set one year after The Empire Strikes Back[8] and was produced by Howard Kazanjian for Lucasfilm Ltd. The film stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew and Frank Oz.
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December 24, 2020Seems a little silly to review this. After all, it isn’t like this is the first time I’ve taken in this story. It’s entertaining and the artwork is done well. The story in the films is well represented. I will say that as a historical time piece these comics are interesting to see as they were being written and published as the Star Wars universe was still being built. There’s some tones to the language that comes straight out of the early novelizations that kind of fell by the wayside as the franchise progressed, an appearance from Jabba in A New Hope, long before what the movies established that he looked like and some especially uncomfortable/awkward interactions between Luke and Leia, before they were established as being siblings.
May 4, 2022
I enjoyed Marvel’s adaptation of the original Star Wars trilogy. The Force is strong with this one! This book has all three adaptations with remastered artwork and bonus material including pin-ups, artwork, articles, and introductions for each adaptation written by Star Wars actors Peter Mayhew, Billy Dee Williams and Warwick Davis, who played Chewbacca, Lando Calrissian and Wicket the Ewok respectively.
While reading the adaptation of A New Hope, I was confused by the artists’ decision to change Jabba the Hutt’s appearance in the comics. My favourite adaptations were A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back.
Whether you’re a fan of Star Wars or new to the Star Wars universe, this book is a must read.
While reading the adaptation of A New Hope, I was confused by the artists’ decision to change Jabba the Hutt’s appearance in the comics. My favourite adaptations were A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back.
Whether you’re a fan of Star Wars or new to the Star Wars universe, this book is a must read.
April 23, 2015
I think this book was one of the most descriptive books I have ever read. It is one of the greatest books I have ever read. IT is a great book if you are a Star Wars enthusiast like me. This book had one of my favourite quotes of all time, "Use the Force Luke". This quote tells of how Luke can speak to Obi-Wan and HE is giving him hints about the Force. Later in the book Luke goes to train with the master. This all I will tell you so read the book to find out more.
P.S you can get it from me.
P.S you can get it from me.
March 3, 2014
If you loved the original trilogy you must add this to your Star Wars collection. There are so many more details and back history you can get by reading the novels, rather than just seeing the movies! It absolutely comes to life as you read along!
February 24, 2012
Nearly exactly the same as the movies. Don't waste your time reading these if you're reading the whole Star Wars series.
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