Via Starwars.com:
REVISIT A PRE-INTERNET GEM, COVERING EVERYTHING FROM CHIEF CHIRPA TO THE CREATURE SHOP.
It’s summer 1983 and Return of the Jedi has been released and is bringing in more credits than a second-hand Death Star. The latest wave of Palitoy action figures are sweeping the country, bringing Gamorrean Guards, Bib Fortuna, Admiral Ackbar, and Ewoks into kids collections. Tie-in promotions can be found everywhere, newspapers are running stories on the huge success of the final Star Wars film, and for fans of the saga, books and magazines offer a plethora of information and images to pour over and investigate. In the days before social media, the Web and the Internet, this was the best way to get your information. The ONLY way, and it was during this fertile period that issue two of the Return of the Jedi poster magazine arrived.

Sitting behind a purple cover and using the square Jedi logo, we’re treated to two very distinct images and the two characters who represented Jedi the most during those days in 1983 — Wicket the Ewok and Jabba the Hutt. While never meeting each other during the film (they were on opposite sides of the Outer Rim and Wicket’s glider couldn’t fly quite that far) they were front and centre in most magazines and ads at the time, with the Ewoks appealing to younger kids and Jabba to the older fans who’d been waiting to meet him since 1977.

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