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Star Wars (1977) - The Movie That SAVED Marvel Comics! Part One
Episode 366

Star Wars (1977) - The Movie That SAVED Marvel Comics! Part One

Marvel Versus Marvel

January 5, 20263h 15m

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Show Notes

Kicking off 2026 with a truly epic edition of MVM - a special look at how Star Wars, the movie that saved Marvel Comics! We bring you the incredible Hollywood story of how George Lucas and his team poured blood, sweat, and tears into making the first sci-fi blockbuster, and how it changed cinema forever! Then we'll take you behind-the-page to look at the close relationship between George Lucas and comic books, the financial quicksand Marvel Comics was drowning in in the Seventies, how Marvel became the very first people to ever tell the Star Wars story, and how Star Wars saved the company! Then we’ll deep-dive the movie itself, pull it apart scene by scene to bring you all our reactions, plus tons of wild trivia, and compare the Star Wars movie to the Marvel Star Wars Comics!

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