| Slot: |
Star Wars 5 |
| Item: |
Star Wars 5 Modern |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
2082452025
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Owner Comments
Certification #: 2082452025
Title: Star Wars
Issue: 5
Issue Date: 11/77
Issue Year: 1977
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Grade: 9.8
Total Graded At: 157
Page Quality: WHITE
Grade Date: 11/11/2019
Category: Modern
Art Comments: Roy Thomas story
Howard Chaykin & Steve Leialoha art
Rick Hoberg & Dave Cockrum cover
Key Comments: Part 5 of ""Star Wars: A New Hope""
movie adaptation.
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This item was purchased on ebay from: scotty9128
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I have put this off long enough. It took finding this auction to draw my attention back to Marvel’s Star Wars Comics. I have been saying I will come back to collect these books, but I kept putting it off—that is until now.
I found the listing (Auction).
I bid.
I won.
I can’t believe my luck. Star Wars have always been my favorite space opera. I love the story and all the characters—even Darth Vader. There’s an innocence to these young heroes, heroine, smugglers, and villains that I cannot define or explain. I remember back in my youth I kept going back and watching this movie six or seven times at the theater (and I wasn’t alone; millions of others did the same thing—I was 12 back then; just a kid some 42+ years ago). It was unheard of—at the time—for the audience to go back to the theater to rewatch a movie they have seen just a few days ago. ____________________________________________________
I collected the comics. I was always there first thing after school at the drug store to buy my copy of this Space Odyssey. We were lucky. Some of the 35-cent variant found their way from Tuscaloosa, Alabama to our small town of Butler, Alabama (Mine are well kept and hidden away in a safe place). I never thought spending an extra 5 cent back then could bring such rewards today if I were to sell them (to me—in my own mind—spending the extra 5 cents meant I was a BIG spender).
Anyway, my plan is to collect the 1st six issues and the 35 cent variants graded by CGC. I have no delusion of doing it all in one night. This will be a drawn-out process that will be both fun and interesting—after that, I may collect the rest of the set; I haven’t decided. I just know it’s going to be a battle obtaining the 35 cent variants (the cost alone is shockingly high).
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Synopsis for Star Wars “A New Hope:”
The galaxy is in the midst of a civil war. Rebel spies have stolen plans to the Galactic Empire's Death Star, a colossal, moon-sized, space station capable of destroying entire planets. Imperial Senator Princess Leia, secretly one of the Rebellion's leaders, has obtained the plans, but her starship is captured by an Imperial Star Destroyer under the command of the ruthless Darth Vader. Before she is captured, Leia hides the plans in the memory of astromech droid R2-D2, who, along with protocol droid C-3PO, flees in an escape pod to the desert planet below, Tatooine.
The droids are captured by Jawa traders, who sell them to moisture farmers Owen and Beru Lars and their nephew Luke Skywalker. While cleaning R2-D2, Luke accidentally triggers part of a holographic recording of Leia, in which she requests help from Obi-Wan Kenobi. The next morning, Luke finds R2-D2 missing, and while searching for him, encounters "Old Ben" Kenobi, an elderly hermit and friend of Luke's. Ben, who reveals his true name to be Obi-Wan, tells Luke of his days as one of the Jedi Knights, former peacekeepers of the Galactic Republic who derived their power from an energy field called the Force until they were all but wiped out by the Empire. Contrary to what his uncle has told him, Luke learns that his father fought alongside Obi-Wan as a Jedi Knight until Vader, a former pupil of Obi-Wan's, turned to the dark side of the Force and murdered him. Obi-Wan presents Luke with his father's old weapon, a Jedi lightsaber.
R2-D2 plays Leia's message for Obi-Wan, in which she begs him to take the Death Star plans to her home planet of Alderaan and give them to her father for analysis. Obi-Wan invites Luke to accompany him to Alderaan and learn the ways of the Force. Luke declines, but changes his mind after discovering that Imperial stormtroopers have killed his aunt and uncle and destroyed their farm in their search for the droids. Obi-Wan and Luke visit a cantina in Mos Eisley, where, after a brief confrontation, they meet smuggler Han Solo, who owes money to local mobster Jabba the Hutt, and his Wookiee co-pilot Chewbacca. After negotiating a price, Obi-Wan, Luke, R2-D2 and C-3PO join forces aboard Han's ship, the Millennium Falcon.
Death Star commander Grand Moff Tarkin orders the destruction of Alderaan via the Death Star's turbolaser as a show of force.[5] The Falcon crew discovers the planet's remains and is captured by the Death Star's tractor beam, which Obi-Wan goes to disable. Luke discovers that Leia is imprisoned on the Death Star, and rescues her with the help of Han and Chewbacca in a swashbuckling series of escapes. After Obi-Wan sacrifices himself in a lightsaber duel with Darth Vader to enable the heroes to escape, the Falcon escapes amid a fierce dogfight with Imperial TIE starfighters. Using a tracking beacon placed aboard the Falcon, the Imperials follow the rebels to the hidden base on Yavin 4.
The Death Star plans reveal that it can be destroyed by triggering a chain reaction from an external exhaust port. Luke joins the Rebel fighter squadron in a siege against the approaching Death Star, while Han collects his payment, intending to leave and repay Jabba. In the ensuing battle, the Rebels suffer heavy losses after several unsuccessful runs. Vader leads a squadron of TIE fighters and prepares to attack Luke's X-wing, but Han returns and fires at the Imperial fighters, sending Vader spiraling away. Guided by Obi-Wan's spirit, Luke turns off his proton torpedo targeting computer and uses the Force to guide the torpedoes into the exposed exhaust port. The Death Star explodes just before it can fire on the Rebel base, killing Tarkin as well as numerous other Imperials. On Yavin 4, Leia awards Luke and Han medals for their heroism.
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This is my 1st purchase of a CGC graded book for this set. The price was right, and I took advantage of it.
Subtotal (1 item) $96.00
Shipping $15.00
Alabama Sales Tax* $7.68
Order total $118.68
(This was My Christmas present to myself this year)
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A Special Note:
It is unusual for someone to hold on to a comic for 42+ years before having it graded by CGC (11/2019)—and then have it come back with a grade of “9.8.” That is totally mind-blowing in my opinion. I’m just fortune and lucky to be the next owner of this incredible well-kept/maintained comic.
To the 1st owner, thank-you for preserving this comic as you did.
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Thank-you for stopping by and checking out what this old fool is now trying to collect.
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Posted 12/16/2019