book as far I was concerned, certainly nothing that could hold a candle to Roy's Conan stories. And Chaykin was capable of so much better, like his Monark Starstalker one-shot with Archie Goodwin, which I thought was one of the best comics from that period.

Perhaps one of the reasons why HTD #1 was regarded as being such a big seller is because it was touted as "The world's most wanted comic" on the cover of the HTD Treasury Edition which reprinted it? Marvel are so good at hype that it's hardly surprising if people believed it.

Minor correction: Monark Starstalker was written and drawn by Chaykin. Archie Goodwin had nothing to do with it.

I would disagree that the Star Wars adaptation was no good. I bought the first threeenough" not because something was gained in translation, but because the books were published in black and white, showing the intricacies and sharpness of Jim Starlin's art. When I read color reprints of the same stories a few years later in Fantasy masterpieces, I was taken aback by the murkiness of the art... Lots of heavy purples and greens that all but obliterated the line work! I remember thinking at the time that it would have been better for Jim not to color his own work: the palette choice was not bad, but he didn't seem to be familiar with what would work and what wouldn't work on cheap pulpy paper. That being said, that series definitely deserved to be successful; like McGregor's Black Panther, it was a