Considering I went a long time without a Scanning My Collection article I don’t mind that there have been three this month. They come out when I have something to review for it, while I’m trying to do the others at least once a month. And since this one is collected and I can only guess where the breaks should go I’m going to review the whole thing.
Said whole thing is the original adaptation of the first Star Wars movie, though at the time we thought it would be the only one. Marvel adapted the movie in the first issues of the Star Wars comic series, and the version I have is a collected trade by Dark Horse featuring the first three, half of the movie. I don’t know if any changes were done by Dark Horse and if they did (outside of brightening the color) that’s a shame. I have noticed that Chewbacca looks more on-model than he did in issue #23, which I reviewed earlier today. Threepio has stronger colors and I’m not sure if R2 looks different or not since I just flipped through it prior to this opening. I am curious about the changes between what we saw on screen and what was in the adaptation. Dark Horse would also do their own version for the Special Edition, although the other two comics were just the Marvel adaptation. I don’t get it, either.
Well, this party got out of control real quick.
Classic Star Wars: A New Hope #1
Dark Horse Comics (June, 1994)
reprinting Star Wars #s 1-3 (Marvel; July-September, 1977)
ADAPTATION: Roy Thomas PENCILER: Howard Chaykin INKER: Steve Leialoha IDW RE-COLORIST: Pamela Rambo IDW COVER ARTIST: Arthur Adams IDW COVER COLORIST: Matthew Hollingsworth LETTERER: Tom Orzechowski ORIGINAL EDITORS: Roy Thomas & Archie Goodwin IDW EDITORS: Bob Cooper & Edward Martin IIIThe fact that they redid Marie Severin, Steve Leialoha, and Carl Gafford’s colors instead of just brightening them up is already a bad sign, but I don’t have the originals to compare it to. Now I wish I did so I would know what other art changes were made.
