 My work here on YouTube is supported by viewers. Please take a look at the link in the description below and visit my page at 50th Street where you can become a sponsor. Issue number 38 of Star Wars in the original Marvel Comics series covered dated August of 1980. Marvel had wrapped up their ongoing stories the issue before and they had a month to kill before the Empire Strikes Back adaptation started. So they stuck in this one issue story that they had sitting around and it was one of my favorites. It's illustrated by Michael Golden, who had made a name for himself the year before illustrating Marvel's Micronauts comics, which was very well received and is still very highly regarded. The story involved Luke and Leia fleeing from an Imperial Star Destroyer and accidentally warping themselves into the great void between galaxies where they encountered a gigantic living starship. Which at first mistook them for figments of its own imagination because it had been floating out in the empty void for so many millennia that it couldn't distinguish reality anymore. Anyway, it ultimately let them go and released some living antimatter cells that blew up their pursuing Star Destroyer. It's a good little story and I've always liked this cover. I I always joke that even Princess Leia had the tentacle problem. Over the years I've seen Michael Golden at the convention plenty of times but I've never actually spoken to him. Earlier this year he was at the Rose City Comic Con and he was selling posters of this cover. So I took the opportunity to buy one from him and here's a video of him smiling at the camera for me. I told him how much I appreciated that one issue back in the day and I told him that one of the things I appreciated most about it was that it was not Carmine Infantino. He nodded and said yes, I've heard that before. The next issue as I said started a six-issue cycle of the official adaptation of The Empire Strikes Back and after that Marvel went right back to Carmine Infantino. Thank you for watching. Please subscribe to my channel and please be sure to press that thumbs up button. That's how videos get recommended and seen here on YouTube. And please take a look at the link in the description below and go to my 50th Street page where you can become a sponsor.