Book Review: 'Star Wars: The Original Topps Trading Card Series - Volume One'
The dust jacket resembles the Series One packaging, right down to the faux wax paper wrapper! (C) 2015 Abrams ComicArts and Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) A long time ago in an apartment building far, far away, I started collecting Topps Star Wars trading cards. It was the autumn of 1977 and George Lucas's space-fantasy film was still in its long, record-setting first run in theaters. Kenner Toys was frantically attempting to make the first batch of action figures and other toys in time for that year's Christmas shopping season - but wouldn't quite make it. Marvel Comics' six-issue series was still only in Issue # 3, and there was no Internet or social media like there is today for fans across the globe to exchange opinions or discuss plot points of the year's most popular movie. And because the home video revolution was still a few years away, fans could only "bring the movie home" in a bare handful of ways: The novelization by George Lucas (