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Podcast: Marvel Versus Marvel
Episode: Star Wars (1977) - The Movie That SAVED Marvel Comics! Part Two
Description: 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...