I flipped through that at the airport over the holidays. It must be difficult to come up with previously unseen behind the scenes photos for a 42-year-old movie. I'm not buying paper magazines anymore and haven't for years, but I was tempted by the Mad Magazine Star Wars Special at the grocery store a few days ago, until I saw the $12.95 price tag.

I’m not sure how long this one has been out but I found it in the old magazine rack at the local CVS on my way out. It says display until March 2020. It pretty much covers his entire life. Mostly information we all know but has some cool behind the scene pics.

Just finished it yesterday so I decided to pick up the script

I think one of the letter columns in the Marvel comic addressed it -- like the storybook, they were writing from stills and an earlier draft of the screenplay. Otherwise I would have been wondering the same thing. That and how Marvel drew "Jabba the Hut" <sic> and called Luke's plane "Blue Five." Props to Daley for writing around Jabba and making it his goon Heater instead. Same dialogue and everything. Naturally it's been retconned to fit. https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Heater

That always bugged the hell out of me when I was a kid. I remember having that book as well and seeing that picture and thinking how the hell did I miss that in the movie? I thought I knew everything about the movie back then and here was this scene that I don't remember seeing

I had the Scholastic storybook, which had the Biggs scene. https://geekdad.com/2017/01/what-are-these-star-wars-scenes/ It also comes up in the Marvel Star Wars comic. I don't think it would have killed the pace to have learned just a little bit more about Luke, but what do I know, I was like seven years old and starved for SW material.

I don't find that very erotic ... I think you might have gotten it confused with some underground comics from the time. It's pure torture and goes on for the whole episode! The prelude with Leia, Lord Tion, and Prestor (reconned as Bail's middle name, I just learned!) where she accidentally lets slip that she knows the secret code name "Death Star"? Retold in a Dark Horse comic some time ago. https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Tion_(Lord)

I have a few copies i've collected over the years. One of my favorite ways to watch Star Wars sometime is through the MoveAlong productions release where they incorporated the film with the Story of Star Wars record and spliced in some of the pictures from the book that came with the record when Roscoe Lee Browne is narrating. https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/MoveAlongs-The-Story-of-Star-Wars-Complete/id/4962 It's a fun abridged way of watching Star Wars.

Yeah I didn't enjoy the Jedi adaptation and it's my least favorite of the 3 films but the dramatization seemed a bit rushed to me. Not having Mark Hamill voice it didn't do it any good. I own a few releases of the first one and have some nice edits on Mp3 that are my go to's. The only part of the drama I have to fastword is the erotic Vader interrogates Leia scene

I had "The Story of Star Wars" too -- it's all scratched up and the paper album pieces are taped together, probably still in my now-elderly parents' house. Here's a rip of the audio. This is from way before home video, we were lucky to have it. https://archive.org/details/01TheStoryOfStarWarsPartI

I listen to that about once a year too, it's great. Perfect for raking leaves in the fall. I consider it canon. Bunny Behrens is arguably a better Obi-Wan than Alec Guinness. Brian Daley, who wrote the adaptation, also wrote the Han Solo Adventures. They're not great literature, but I appreciate his take on the universe, set in the Corporate Sector of the galaxy, with no Jedi and not many Imperials around, either. It's a shame he's no longer with us to be a part of the new stories. He died from cancer soon after completing the last part of the trilogy. I have it a bunch of different ways; I bought the Highbridge CDs when they were new, they're on Audible, and they've been offered on Humble Bundle a bunch of times so the files are out there. It's available for download on Archive.org if you want a free direct download of the files. https://archive.org/details/StarWarsRadio NPR featured this recently. https://www.npr.org/2019/12/19/789279631/star-wars-the-trilogy-that-npr-turned-into-radio-drama The Empire adaptation is good but not nearly as rich, and the Jedi adaptation is even thinner. The quality of the performances fall off in Jedi since Mark Hamill couldn't do it for free anymore without breaking union rules, and dramatic audio plays got really scarce after that. There's a full cast performance of the Dark Forces trilogy but it doesn't have any magic in it.

I just started my yearly listen to the NPR Radio Drama on my commutes in and from work and got the urge to talk Star Wars from my childhood with like minded folks. I love all the detail that was included into the story before Star Wars got so convoluted with Expanded Universe and Wookieepedia story expansion. When I first heard it as a child it was amazing to hear the Biggs story play out a bit and Leia's lead up to the opening of the film fleshed out. Until then all I had to fill my SW needs was the 12" "The Story of Star Wars" record which I pretty much wore out! It did help the production that Mark Hamill and Anthony Daniels participated in the recording. If you have a few hours in your life I highly recommend taking a listen to it. There are a few versions of it up on YouTube and I prefer the version without the narrator. It goes a little faster but not by much https://www.npr.org/2019/12/19/789279631/star-wars-the-trilogy-that-npr-turned-into-radio-drama