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Card C-6: Princess Leia
Wrapping up the chase cards - and the set - with Princess Leia.
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Card C-5: Obi-Wan & Yoda
So these two can be double-billed, but the droids have to make unnamed cameos. 😏
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Card C-4: Chewbacca
Guest starring a concerned looking Threepio!
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Card C-3: Luke Skywalker
And a surprisingly large Artoo!
There is also a more rare, parallel set of these insert cards w/refractor foil (ie quasi-holographic).
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Card C-2: Han Solo
Simonson does a good Han; shame he never really got to draw him in the comic much.
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Card C-1: Darth Vader
The primary chase cards for this set are six etched foil cards, each drawn by Walt Simonson.
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Card #140: Checklist
Ooh, checklist! Really underscores how oddly named many of the cards in this set are.
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Card #139: Bruce Zick
These aliens look way more trippy and messed up than the cantina aliens in the movie, and I am here for it. Momaw Nadon is clearly having a great time rocking out to that jizz!
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Card #138: Thomas Wm Yeats II
I have no idea what the image on the card is supposed to represent (beyond a shared "space fantasy" vibe), but the green shirt, brown pants & atypical setting make me think of Uli Qel-Droma.
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Card #137: Al Williamson (B)
The way Williamson draws the Snowtrooper armor is great; love the way it seems modular and kit-bashed.
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Card #136: Al Williamson (A)
I don't know how the editors of this set decided which artists got two cards but Williamson absolutely deserved to be one of them.
Pictured: the New Hope dewbacks' cooler, fitter older brother.
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Card #135: Russell Walks
It's more pronounced in Return of the Jedi, but I love Chewie's little scraggly mustache so much.
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Card #134: Charles Vess
Vess giving us a more serene training moment than Yoda's usual "heavy calisthenics while wearing me in a backpack" approach.
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Card #133: John Van Fleet
Good little scene, great sense of movement & place. Busy, but not muddy, and grittier than a lot of the other cards.
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Card #132: Jim Valentino
The Emperor as a grandpa? That would never happen! 😏
The yellow eyes, teeth and nails are a nice touch, giving the image subtle pop of color.
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Card #131: Angelo Torres
One of the few cards in this subset to seemingly try and recreate a specific image/scene from one of the movies.
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Card #130: Greg Theakston
Another great card, with a tremendous amount of its subject's personality depicted via a single static image.
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Card #129: William Stout
One of my favorite cards. Love how the Ewok (presumably Wicket) both blends in to the background but remains the focal point.
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Card #128: Dave Stevens
Luke, seeing one of Stevens' Bettie Page drawings.
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Card #127: Brian Stelfreeze (B)
While I don't share Stelfreeze's admiration for Boba Fett, this is a great piece. I quite like the helmet image in the background.
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Card #126: Brian Stelfreeze (A)
Great Leia. Another card heavily used in the promotion of the series.
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Card #125: Ken Steacy
Contrary to the implication of the cardback text, this is not the first appearance of a womp rat; that occurred in Star Wars #17 back in '78.
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Card #124: Walter Simonson
Simonson's run on the original comic back in the post-Empire, pre-Jedi time period, so presumably he means he never got to have any cool Vader/Luke/Leia conflicts.
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Card #123: Bill Sienkiewicz
A rare for '93 look at the man inside the mask.
Interesting that Sienkiewicz's Fantastic Four work gets cited but not his New Mutants.
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Card #122: Mark Schultz
Schultz working in a Star Wars dinosaur is a cute touch.
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Card #121: P. Craig Russell
I never would have guessed Bib Fortuna would be such a popular subject, but I'm pretty sure he ends up with more cards than, say, Yoda.
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Card #120: Joe Quesada
Future Marvel Editor-in-Chief with a surprisingly mellow but very nice Yoda.
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Card #119: George Pratt
This is the picture hanging on the "Employee of the Month" wall outside Palpatine's office.
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Card #118: George Perez
Even in an extreme closeup, Perez packs in a ton of detail, like the texture on the horns/tusks.
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Card #117: Jason Palmer
A pretty faithful recreation of the scene from the movie, which does a good job of using the sense of scale relative to Luke to heighten the tension.
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