Tonight's amusement: The June 1977 issue of Starlog - released in early May. Remember, Starlog was the "go-to" source for everything science fiction at the time. Only a couple of weeks before it hit us all, and this is all they had to say about it:
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Now, I've always asserted that STAR WARS (1977) is my favorite of the franchise, not Empire. Why? Because it came out of nowhere. That opening scene of the Star Destroyer flying overhead was completely new. Trench run, cantina, light sabers. Nobody had ever seen anything like that before. There existed no fan theories, no expectations to dissapoint, no pre-existing canon to contradict. Just pure joy, especially for a ten year old boy.
Tomorrow night, if I have time, I'll scan in issue #7. Floodgates=open!