They had some corking 'epic-length' (ie, several issues long) tales back in the day - after they'd finished with the film, there was a sort of Magnificent Seven homage (aka rip off) with Han & Chewie (plus a host of new characters, including a giant rabbit and, I think, a showgirl sort with a lot of attitude but very little costume). I have a feeling the one where Chewie shoots Han was set on the 'Death Wheel' (or something like that) which was a sort of casino in space, where Leia bumps into a smarmy Senator Greyshade... And I have a feeling it was during that one that Darth Vader finally turned up - when you consider what a huge part of the saga he became, they don't seem to have been all that sure he was coming back at all, I think it wasn't until issue 42 (so that's what, more than six months after the film strip had finished) that he turned up again.

Sorry, Mac, I don't mean to hijack the covers thread by wittering on about ye olde Star Wars strips!!

I stopped getting SW when another Marvel publication started the following year.....
Was it some 'fly by night' publication that was gone in 6 months, Jon?