Card #081: Steranko's Empire
I wonder how Mark Hamill felt about all the artists constantly hunking him up and dropping him into deep V shirts on these pieces. 😄
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Card #080: Jim Steranko
Steranko!
I had no idea Steranko did Star Wars art. This and the other half on the next card are fantastic.
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Card #080: Thomas Blackshear
Starlog once had a store in the Mall of America & the back of it was a special enclosed area dedicated to sci-fi commemorative plates. The 90s!
Also, did not know Jung did the Heir to the Empire cover
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Card #078: Strike Up The Droids
Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins Cosplay Threepio is my favorite Threepio cosplay.
If this poster went for $1K in '93, I wonder what it goes for now?
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Card #077: Santa Threepio
Something about the length of Threepio's Santa coat and the fact that he's, ultimately, naked, has always made me think of this as a Sexy Threepio Santa.
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Card #076: Even Droids Celebrate
I love the idea of Threepio baking a birthday cake for Artoo, who has neither the need nor the means to ingest food.
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Card #075: "We're Moving!"
Another great piece created for a specific purpose that has been recirculated a lot. Nowadays, I get big Skeleton Crew vibes off it.
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Card #074: Heat Seems To Rise
Maybe that's meant to be the volcano we all somehow knew Anakin fell into long before Episode III/Mustafar came along.
Gorgeous piece, at any rate, from Noriyoshi Ohrai.
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Card #073: When George Lucas
The Revenge of the Jedi changeup is one of those great bits of Star Wars lore. I still have the corrected "Return" version of this poster framed on my wall.
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Card #072: Male Bonding
The font of the text on this is really incongruous; feels very Currie and Ives-esque.
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Card #072: Boris Vallejo
This cardfront image gets reused in a lot of places; I had no idea it originated as a Coca-Cola promotional poster.
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Card #070: The Rebels Transcend
These more impressionistic, sketchy pieces really bring out the kind of grittier war story vibes from (at least the first third of) ESB.
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Card #069: A Pastiche
The understandable desire to keep Yoda's look a secret also lead the original comic book adaptation to feature the blue McQuarrie-designed Yoda before being corrected in the series.
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Card #068: The Noble Tauntaun
The NPR poster on the cardback is one of my favorite pieces of Star Wars art. I have a textless version from an old calendar framed & hanging on the wall just above my computer.
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Card #067: The Mountain
The "Gone With The Wind" original is great, but relatively minimal - which is how the various international versions improve on it (Star Wars posters are best w/lots of little details)
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Card #065: The Main International
The OG poster is rightly classic but I've always loved this Japanese version. The lights on the AT-ATs, the sharp angle of the Falcon, the drape of Lando's cloak, all add additional levels of drama
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Card #064: Two Lukes
For all the different Empire Strikes Back posters there are, it's notable how often "big looming Darth Vader head" is used as a visual representation of the title.
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Card #063: Dave Dorman
Any Dark Empire or Star Wars Radio drama fans out there?
The original radio drama is a blast, and def worth a listen if you haven't. Lots of wild additions.
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Card #062: The Popularity of Villains
This image gets reused a lot - I have it on a postcard and a notebook - but I had no idea it originated as a Coke poster.
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Card #061: If Droids Can Frolic
Always here for a Hoojib reference.
I've never had an Artoo cookie jar, but I do have an Artoo soy sauce dispenser.
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Card #060: A Close Encounter
As the first of its kind, Splinter of the Mind's eye is solid, though it's vastly more interesting to read through the lens of being a potential sequel to a less successful Star Wars.
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Card #059: An Evil Darth Vader
The novelization cover is definitely how I'm most familiar with this image.
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Card #058: Italian Poster Art
The best part of the cardfront poster is that if you didn't know better, you'd think the movie was about a golden robot and his best friend the space lizard.
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Card #057: A Highly Stylized
This is another semi-famous international poster I've seen pop up in a few places, while elements of the cardback poster have been reused in a few places.
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Card #056: Artists Imaginations
Now we're getting into the cool weird foreign market posters!
Shredded Luke, Obi-Wan's floating head, Vader busting out of the Death Star like it's an egg, this one has it all.
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Card #055: Recapturing the Style
I think this might be one of Struzan's earliest Star Wars works.
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Card #054: Foreign Movie Posters
Despite this originally being a little-seen foreign poster, I feel like it eventually became an oft-used image in various places/licensed items.
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Card #053: The Continuing Success
Leia's New Hope boots got more play nowhere than the posters.
Love the army of Stormtroopers along the bottom.
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Card #052: A More Realistic
These card titles continue to be whack.
I don't think I've seen the cardfront poster before, but the cardback one is a classic & a nice reminder of the movie's long theatrical legs.
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Card #051: A Huge Space Battle
Never seen this onebefore. It's a pretty fantastic depiction of the Death Star battle. Love the way it doesn't shy away from the size & shape of the Death Star.