• Cover of the 'Star Wars Artifact Edition' book featuring illustrations of characters from the Star Wars franchise.
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Star Wars Artifact Edition Oversized Hardcover (IDW Publishing)

Star Wars Artifact Edition Oversized Hardcover (IDW Publishing)

$250.00 CAD
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Experience a spectacular, production-packed blockbuster look into legendary space-opera comic history! Star Wars Artifact Edition Oversized Hardcover delivers a massive, comprehensive behind-the-scenes showcase capturing the legendary creative process during Marvel Comics' classic late 1970s run.
IDW Publishing's award-winning Artist's Edition and Artifact Edition line offers heavy-duty, premium, and meticulously detailed volumes that collect raw historical triumphs. This essential archival book takes you deep undercover on a high-stakes drafting, comic production, and sci-fi illustration hunt. Read along as the visual production team traces the evolution of a galaxy far, far away, clashing brutally through raw layouts, historic inks, and untouched pencils to secure a flawless historic archive before the book hits your private collection.
Key Production Highlights:
  • The Core Adaptation Issues: Follow full-size art scans and selected pages from issues #1–10, #16, and #38 of Marvel's original Star Wars run on a breathless journey detailing legendary work from creators Roy Thomas and Howard Chaykin.
  • The Pizzazz Magazine Treasury: Watch the visionary design team deploy on a brutal, investigative tactical mission, compiling rare, forgotten promotional artwork and selected comic stories from Pizzazz magazine (issues #2, #5–6, and #10–13, #16).
  • The Raw Production Nuances: Witness the lethal combination of high-resolution color scans capturing the actual 12" x 17" original art boards, completely replicating historic blue pencil notations, artist corrections, white-out alterations, editorial margin notes, tape residue, and original cross-hatching.
This incredible, heavy-duty book is an absolute crown-jewel library centerpiece addition for modern Star Wars completionists, bronze age comic historians, and sequential art instructors looking to study master-level character drafting, stark ink composition, and industry-defining layout configurations by legends Howard Chaykin, Roy Thomas, Carmine Infantino, Walter Simonson, and Tom Palmer.
Product Specifications
  • Publisher: IDW Publishing / Marvel Comics Archive
  • Lead Creators: Roy Thomas, Howard Chaykin
  • Illustrators & Artists: Howard Chaykin (Cover Art / Artist), Carmine Infantino, Walter Simonson, Tom Palmer
  • Format: Extra-Large Premium Oversized Hardcover (Artifact Edition Style)
  • Configuration: [First Edition] (Complete Raw Production Scan)
  • Condition: Brand New Condition / Unread Archive Stock
  • Availability: Out of Print (OOP) / Highly Sought-After
  • Print Length: Massive heavyweight archival pages
  • Language: English
  • Series Heritage: Replicates the actual, physical master art pages exactly as they looked on the artists' drafting tables in 1977.
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