Star Wars #32 (1977)
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VERY FINE/NEAR MINT
MY FIRST COMIC! by KEVIN HEALY
Spinner rack. Osco drug. Jawa Express. Star Wars #32.
I was a Star Wars kid. I got to see 'Star Wars' in the theater. You didn't, and you're right to be jealous. That meant when I was nine, there was going to be a new Star Wars movie in just 8 months. I didn't know that then. What I also didn't know was that there was a....STAR WARS COMIC BOOK?!?!?! The book is dated February 1980, which means this was probably around Christmas of 1979, and there was a Sandcrawler with Luke, Han, whatever Carmine Infantino thought Chewie looked like, flanked by Jawas running over a hill. I didn't know what "expanded universe", "canon", or " Flash-like penciling " were then. I didn't care. The movie was over, and I got to SEE what my favorite characters were doing. They were still fighting the Empire. Capture was just around the corner. The droids bickered. Han was cocky. Luke whined. Tatooine had sand and Jawas- it was all tremendous. Looking back at it now, its much worse and even better than I remember. Archie Goodwin avoided the mistake that (almost) EVERY continuation of a licensed property by having the characters say what they would say, not what they had already said! If I wanted to hear dialogue I've heard before, I'd just watch the movie. Sure, now I know that this is the guy who wrote 'Manhunter', but I didn't know that then...I was reading 'Star Wars'! Infantino's art style never really fit. He only ever made a passable attempt to make things look like the 'Star Wars' we'd seen in the theater "I got it- a guy with a space gun and a space ship, in space. I'll have 22 pages done by Wed.", and could only be helped so much by the phalanx of inkers (greats all- Bob Wiacek, Terry Austin, Steve Leihola, Gene Day, who showed up over the many years he was there. It wasn't until over a year later when Tom Palmer inked 'Star Wars' #46 that Star Wars looking characters showed up in a Star Wars comic drawn by Infantino, but that 14 month period showed me EVERYTHING about comics. Guest writers and artists, different inking styles, finishing vs. inking, fill-in issues, and some cat named Al Williamson who made everything go down smooth. I'm sure I had other books before it but, spinner rack. Osco Drug. Jawa Express. Star Wars #32. My first comic.
