British Update: Free Gift Farrago – Star Wars Weekly – early issues with Free Gifts!
*TV & Film Related Comics: Yes, it’s the return of our Free Gift Farrago feature! With the ever-increasing popularity of the Star Wars franchise, folks are looking back with nostalgia even to the UK Star Wars Weekly, the format in which a lot of fans had their first exposure to Luke, Leia, Han, and all the other characters. We’ve been short of early issues of Star Wars Weekly for far too long, but that void is filled – temporarily – by this week’s addition of the first 9 issues (plus an errant #13), mostly in mid to high grades, and with the first two issues still possessed of their original Free Gifts – a cut-out Star Wars X-Fighter and a T.I.E. Fighter, to be specific! Almost universally punched out of the flimsy cardboard and assembled for, ooh, seconds of fun before disintegration, it’s rare to find any surviving copies of these gifts, but we’ve managed it! Issue 1 is FN/VF (Gift NM) at £35, issue 2 is FN with NM gift at £25; the others will set you back from £1.50 to £4, depending. Let the Wookie win, Luke!