Thursday 19 February 2015

1989: DROIDS SPRING SPECIAL House Ad (Marvel UK)


From 1989: A House Ad for MARVEL UK's DROIDS SPRING SPECIAL.

The one-shot, which reprinted the third issue of the brief (8 issues) US Star Comics series, was pegged to the BBC screenings of the animated series (which mustered a single season from September 1985).  

This marked the last time that the Annex of Ideas would publish a standalone STAR WARS related comic.  The long-running title that began as STAR WARS WEEKLY in 1978 shuttered in June 1986 (with a coda in SPIDER-MAN AND ZOIDS post-merger).  

The very final STAR WARS-related strip to appear in a M-UK comic was also the DROIDS, serialised in the pages of THE MARVEL BUMPER COMIC.  They bowed out in issue 25 (cover-dated 25 June 1989).

The franchise bounced-back with the five issue run of EWOKS starting in November 1987.  It was all over by the following March.  

Marvel UK had already published one DROIDS SPECIAL the previous year. 

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