 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. It's been months since I've done an episode of Odd Comics and in the previous episode I talked about Star Wars number 16 from the original Marvel Comics series and an unusual story that revolved around a character named Valence and in the episode I said that I didn't recall if Valence made any other appearance. Well one of my viewers in the comments pointed out that Valence in a later issue had a showdown with Darth Vader and as soon as I read that I remembered yes, it was a little over a year later issue number 29 with a cover date of November 1979. There's not much to their one encounter. Vader makes quick work of Valence. The character is dead at the end of this issue and he never returned and this particular storyline never came back around. I wanted to talk about this number one because I had mentioned this character before but also I wanted you to see this artwork here. Back in the early days of Marvel's Star Wars comics the regular artist on the series was Carmine Infantino and this is how he drew Darth Vader. Pretty much everybody in the world was very unhappy with this even though the Star Wars series outsold everything that Marvel was doing and they say that the Star Wars series saved Marvel comics from bankruptcy. I don't know if that's true, but as unhappy as everybody was with the quality of the art they still bought the series because you know it's Star Wars. For comics fans that came from generations older than myself Carmine Infantino was one of the big names. He was especially prolific in the Silver Age and he is most closely associated with the Silver Age flash over at DC Comics. But by the 1970s when I came along this is the kind of stuff he was producing and really nobody was happy with it. He started on Star Wars with issue number 11 and this was his first page. And here's how he drew Princess Leia. If you think that's bad look at his Chewbacca. Yeah nobody was happy with this. Next episode coming tomorrow I'll have a little bit of a happier story. 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.