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A long time ago, in a comic book market far, far away, [[Marvel Comics]] released an official comic-book adaptation of the movie ''[[Star Wars]]'' (''A New Hope'') in 1977. Like the movie, this adaptation was a success, and so Marvel continued publishing the comic beyond the end of the original story.
'''Marvel ''Star Wars''''' eventually ran for a total of 107 issues and three annual specials. It ended in 1986. The series covered the events of the movies as well as stuff happening between them, making it an [[Expanded Universe]] before the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] as we know it today.
[[Dark Horse Comics]], the current publisher of ''Star Wars'' comics, has published reprints of these stories as the ''Classic Star Wars'' series, and in trade paperback form as ''Star Wars: A Long Time Ago'', a seven-volume series, later reprinted in 5 omnibus volumes.
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* [[Audio Adaptation]] - "Droid World" and "Planet of the Hoojibs" were both adapted as book-and-tape sets.
* [[Art Shift]] - Starting with the Empire Strikes Back adaptation the art changes from Carmine Infantino's loose, angular style to a more detailed look with much closer likenesses to the film characters (usually veteran inker Tom Palmer over Al Williamson or Walt Simonson.) The last issue also has a strikingly different style than its predecessors.
* [[Badass]]: Luke once duels Orman Tagge, who'd been training with a lightsaber for almost as long as Luke's been alive, ever since Vader forced him to get cybernetic eyes. Luke had only ever dueled with remotes, but he called on the Force and
{{quote|"…h-he didn't ''kill'' me…! ''Didn't''…need…to…! Controlled stroke so ''perfectly''…destroyed my cyber-vision…without harming ''me''…! He…was ''that'' good…! Th-that…''good''…!"}}
* [[Badass Boast]]: Done in order to activate a droid's capture programming, but still.
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** But the original example has to be the TIE Bomber.
** Zeltrons, too, the species of hedonistic red near-humans. The Zeltron attraction to Force-Sensitives is actually a plot point in ''Coruscant Nights''.
** Orman Tagge and his house got mentioned surprisingly often, likely due to how useful having an established conglomerate head that was openly pro-Imperial is.
** Nar Shaddaa nominally first appears in these comics, but it's just an unnamed megacity until ''[[Dark Empire]]'' properly introduced it and gave it a name.
* [[Chekhov's Boomerang]]/[[Brick Joke]]: Drebble. Lando owes him money because Drebble claims Lando cheats at cards. So Lando uses him as a fake identity. Lando's work is so good that the Rebels want to give Drebble a medal!
* [[The Chessmaster]] - Darth Vader. The Marvel series really ran with the idea of Vader being an evil genius to a much larger extent than anywhere else in the Expanded Universe. Largely by necessity, as Lucasfilm generally forbade direct confrontations between Vader and the main characters, as they might have upstaged what they were planning for the movies.
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