Discovery of Star Wars on paper!

For a while after discovering the action figures, I created my own game universe, completely off base! It was only when my parents bought me the comic adaptations of the first two movies that I realized what Star Wars really was. I devoured the double album until the pages detached themselves. I still have the scrap the album became over the years.

I looked at all the movie stills I could find, read all news reports, trying to imagine what it would be to really see the movies. But it was a waste of time and effort, because my parents were afraid they would be too violent. I would have to wait until 1983 to be able to convince my father to take me along to see Return of the Jedi. What a rollercoaster! The only thing which disturbed me was that Jabba was a kind of large slug, when the comic strip had firmly established he was a standard bald person with yellowish skin…