IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY...

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I know I had Star Wars Weekly #71 when it first came out in 1979 because I cut off the cover and affixed the Princess Leia section to one of my bedroom walls.  Well, I actually used Evo-Stik to glue it to the wall - and there it stayed for around four years before we flitted to another house in another neighbourhood.  The picture was ruined beyond repair when I tried to remove it, so it didn't adorn my new room for the just over four years my family and myself lived in that new house.  Nor did it when we moved back to our previous home as it never made it out of there to begin with.  It was absent for around 35 years until I saw the cover on the Internet and copied it, enlarged it, and then returned a print-out of it to pretty much the same spot on the wall it had previously occupied.  It was good to see her there again.

The image you see above is from a replacement copy I received yesterday, having bought it via eBay just a few days before.  Apart from the first couple of interior pages, I remember nothing of the contents, making me think that I had only purchased my original copy primarily so I could use the cover as a poster, as I thought the pic of Princess Leia was pretty hot.  I don't think I was buying the comic after the early issues, certainly not into the later numbers of which this is one, which tends to confirm (for me) that it was bought just for the cover.  I was therefore surprised to see a Tales Of The Watcher strip in my new copy that I have absolutely no memory of seeing 44 years ago - or at any other time.  I thought it was a nice little story so decided to share it with you here, as a reward for you having to dredge through my weary personal reminiscence.

So enjoy the story - and also that alluring Carmine Infantino drawing of the princess with the red-hot bod!  And feel free to leave a comment - I'll be watching.

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