Brand: Marvel Comics

Series: Star Wars, a vintage Bronze Age US science-fiction and adventure comic book set in the Star Wars universe and presented in full color.

Issue: #69 with a 60¢ cover price and MAR 1983 cover date, a single-issue English-language comic in the US comics tradition produced in the United States.

Characters and story focus: Features C-3PO and R2-D2 within the classic Marvel Star Wars continuity, spotlighting the beloved droid duo among the Rebel Alliance heroes in a commercial newsstand comic inspired by the original Star Wars films.

Front cover artwork shows a towering skeletal, many-legged beast striding through a swampy alien jungle as it looms over a white hovercraft-style vehicle skimming across purple water, with a figure clinging to the side while the passengers inside, including C-3PO and other companions, react as blaster fire erupts around them beneath the large yellow and red Star Wars logo.

Cover elements include the MARVEL COMICS GROUP banner across the top, a corner box illustration featuring C-3PO and R2-D2, a price and issue box reading 60¢, 69, and MAR beside the Comics Code Authority seal, and a newsstand-style barcode box at the lower left.

Barcode number printed along the lower left front cover reads 71486 02871.

Back cover features a full-page Parker Brothers advertisement for the Super Cobra video game cartridge, headed with the bold tagline A MISSION NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE. above artwork of a futuristic helicopter dodging explosions over a mountainous landscape, accompanied by descriptive copy, a small gameplay screen image, and product box art for Super Cobra on Atari and Sears home video game systems.

Details: Vintage 1983 Marvel Star Wars comic book from the Bronze Age starring C-3PO and R2-D2 in a classic Marvel interpretation of the Star Wars universe, suitable for fans and collectors of Star Wars, Marvel Comics, and early 1980s movie and TV science-fiction tie-in series; listing is for the single comic book issue shown.