From: v113np2v@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (George D Emmons)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Star Wars Daily/ Sunday Comic strips
Date: 8 Oct 92 16:36:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
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Back in high school, the library had microfilms of Newsday, a
Long Island paper, dating from January 1, 1980 to 1985. 
Newsday dropped the strip with the end of the Ord Mantell story
currently running in Classic SW, which originally ran in Fall
1981. I read all the ones on file and managed to make copies of 
about seven month's worth of stories. This is what I got:

   (Unknown title...started Dec. 1979): Some professor and his
daughter are testing a weather control device on Kessel. The
Empire comes and takes the daughter hostage so the professor
will work for them. She escapes and stows away on the _Falcon_,
and Our Heroes help break the professor free.

    BRING ME THE CHILDREN: An Imperial force takes over a school
on some world, hoping to capture their prince, an obnoxious
little Wesley Crusher Super Genius-type brat. He escapes, gets
help from the Alliance, reworks some target drones so that on
radar they appear to be a massive strike force coming after the 
Imperial garrison on the school-planet, thus diverting the forces
from the planet, where Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, & the droids
land and save the day.

    (I forget the title for the next one...the strips are down
on LI...) Anyway, Luke & Leia are on some planet trying to buy
X-Wings for the Alliance. Political intrigue follows as they
meet a traitorous jerk named Mag Doum (don't know why I remember
that name) and a Starry-Eyed Farmboy (tm) who gives his life in a
climactic starfighter battle. 

    THE FROZEN WORLD OF OTA: THIS was a good story...always acted
it out with my figures for years afterward... The story starts out
with Luke in a starfighter duel with a TIE. They both have to 
crash land on this Ice planet (This was done after ESB, but takes 
place before it...). When Luke gets out to take care of the pilot,
we find out that the pilot is stalking him, and it is BOBA FETT!
They fight, but the native "snogars" attack the both of them to
get them to help fix the heat generator in their city. Luke and 
Fett TEAM UP to get out of there. Of course, Han & Chewie come
to rescue them, and I think Leia does as well. Han & co. Then get
caught by the snogars, and Luke comes back to rescue them. Fett 
turns out to be on the planet to get this guy called "the Mole", 
who lives in the snogar's city and has been siphoning off their 
power. When he sees Han, though, he decides to go after him. The
day is saved when somebody magnetizes the wall behind Boba Fett,
and the Mole agrees to leave the snogars alone & join the Rebels.
Fett is left hanging on the wall.

     HAN SOLO AT STAR'S END: Need I say any more?

     The Bounty hunter on Ord Mantell was the only other story I 
recall...good art, Dreadfully cheesy names...Gribbit? Ends with
Vader saying, "I guess I'll have to do better next time..." and
a shot of him with Zuckuss, Dengar, Fett, IG-88 & Bossk ( I think).

In the Art of SW, it has the first SW Sunday strip, with Threepio
recording the beginnings of the adventures into a big computer...
notable for the computer naming Luke's father "Tan Skywalker".

The strip ran daily, with color sections on Sundays. The Sundays
were essentially re-drawn versions of Thursday through Tuesday's
strips, so the Sunday reader would be ahead of the daily reader
for a couple of days. I heard the entire set of dailies is 
available in some form of collection, but for an astronomical price
(somewhere upwards of $100 for each of two volumes, I think). I
say No thank you, I'll wait for Dark Horse to reprint the stories.

                                         George...