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<blockquote data-quote="ScruffyLookingNH" data-source="post: 561266" data-attributes="member: 6563"><p>It's been a long time since I posted, but this is too good to miss <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>This has answered a couple of questions that I first asked (myself, I do that a lot) 6 years ago. I'd started cataloguing all the various different Star Wars related adverts in Marvel UK comics. It wasn't even lock down, I was just that sad. </p><p></p><p>On the back of Spider-Man Weekly #265 and Mighty World of Marvel #284 (both out the first week of March 1978) appeared the advert seen here. It advertised a competition being run in Star Wars Weekly #5: Marvel UK had been given 25x full sets of the first 12 figures by Palitoy to give away. </p><p></p><p>Two things about the advert really caught my interest: Firstly, this was clearly a very early set of figures for Palitoy to have; Early Bird mailers were still be posted out in the US at the time. This then made me look closer at the figures. You may not be able to tell from the photo but Luke's sabre is quite possibly a DT. I'm pretty sure it's not a transition shape because the tip is too short which means it's either been snapped off (which would be odd on the standard sabre) or, more likely, it's recessed further up inside the outer sabre. Ben and Darth's I couldn't tell one way or the other, but Luke is a DT, I think. Obviously this is in contradiction of what is widely accepted as undisputed fact: DT Luke did not make it onto a Palitoy card.</p><p></p><p>The other thing I noticed was there were only 8 figures; missing were Tusken, Jawa, Stormtrooper, and the DSC. I put the fact that three of those were the 4th and final wave of the first 12 to be released (DSC, Tusken and Jawa: is that right? It is in my head anyway) so I thought maybe they hadn't arrived in time for the (very basic) photo for the advert and suspected the Stormtrooper was missed off because he is white and may not have shown up well in what was likely to be a black and white (or at least not colour) photo. I was also certain this photo was done "In house", i.e. by Marvel UK, not Palitoy. I thought this because it wasn't really up to much, it's not the full range and R2 is backwards <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> This meant that Marvel had a set of SW figures in (at the very latest) Feb 1978.</p><p></p><p>So, to see these three carded figures come up now from such a source (maybe) finally answers my questions: Marvel DID get hold of the figures in early 1978. They DID do the photography in house. And of the missing 4 figures? Well, we now know where three of them ended up. </p><p></p><p>How many of you have now run off to look up the Art Director of Marvel UK between '74 and '79?? I've already got in touch with him about the 8 figures he opened, including Luke. No, not to try and get them cheaply, but to give him the heads up on what he may have, but mainly to find out if these mad ramblings are in any way correct. Would love to know.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ScruffyLookingNH, post: 561266, member: 6563"] It's been a long time since I posted, but this is too good to miss :) This has answered a couple of questions that I first asked (myself, I do that a lot) 6 years ago. I'd started cataloguing all the various different Star Wars related adverts in Marvel UK comics. It wasn't even lock down, I was just that sad. On the back of Spider-Man Weekly #265 and Mighty World of Marvel #284 (both out the first week of March 1978) appeared the advert seen here. It advertised a competition being run in Star Wars Weekly #5: Marvel UK had been given 25x full sets of the first 12 figures by Palitoy to give away. Two things about the advert really caught my interest: Firstly, this was clearly a very early set of figures for Palitoy to have; Early Bird mailers were still be posted out in the US at the time. This then made me look closer at the figures. You may not be able to tell from the photo but Luke's sabre is quite possibly a DT. I'm pretty sure it's not a transition shape because the tip is too short which means it's either been snapped off (which would be odd on the standard sabre) or, more likely, it's recessed further up inside the outer sabre. Ben and Darth's I couldn't tell one way or the other, but Luke is a DT, I think. Obviously this is in contradiction of what is widely accepted as undisputed fact: DT Luke did not make it onto a Palitoy card. The other thing I noticed was there were only 8 figures; missing were Tusken, Jawa, Stormtrooper, and the DSC. I put the fact that three of those were the 4th and final wave of the first 12 to be released (DSC, Tusken and Jawa: is that right? It is in my head anyway) so I thought maybe they hadn't arrived in time for the (very basic) photo for the advert and suspected the Stormtrooper was missed off because he is white and may not have shown up well in what was likely to be a black and white (or at least not colour) photo. I was also certain this photo was done "In house", i.e. by Marvel UK, not Palitoy. I thought this because it wasn't really up to much, it's not the full range and R2 is backwards :D This meant that Marvel had a set of SW figures in (at the very latest) Feb 1978. So, to see these three carded figures come up now from such a source (maybe) finally answers my questions: Marvel DID get hold of the figures in early 1978. They DID do the photography in house. And of the missing 4 figures? Well, we now know where three of them ended up. How many of you have now run off to look up the Art Director of Marvel UK between '74 and '79?? I've already got in touch with him about the 8 figures he opened, including Luke. No, not to try and get them cheaply, but to give him the heads up on what he may have, but mainly to find out if these mad ramblings are in any way correct. Would love to know. [/QUOTE]
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