Best Star Wars Ad Ever

Best Star Wars Ad Ever


So I was reading a Man From Atlantis comic to my son ( how this kid is popular with a dad like me I’ll never know ) and we came to this ad. This one really took me back to a time when Star Wars was all shiny and new, ads like this served as your action figure checklist. The art, provided by the Kubert school is also wonderfully slightly off model, love it!Oh and German superstar “Hans Solo” is awesome.

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6 Comments

  • rob! on July 28, 2007

    this ad made me drool with anticipation when i saw it. i wish the Kubert school had still been doing those ads by the time i attended in 89! 🙂

  • Swinebread on July 30, 2007

    too bad they didn’t draw the marvel comic

  • chunky B on July 30, 2007

    I love this ad, everytime I see it, it takes me back to a simpiler time when the Stars Wars was young, and Hans was king of the world!

  • JFStan on August 22, 2007

    Is Ben Kenobi setting up for a golf swing or what?

  • Bubbashelby on September 21, 2007

    lol – “Hans Solo”

  • Plastic Yank on March 16, 2008

    Heh, love the near-literal depiction of the Kenner Obi-Wan figure’s plastic “robe”. Makes him look like some sort of elderly vampire from the Marvel comics of the time.

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