Via Starwars.com:

Grab your Spangles and Monster Munch and let’s dive into issue No. 3 of Star Wars Weekly, cover dated February 2, 1978. With Star Wars fever rising by the day and the anticipation for Star Wars-related content as hot as ever, Wednesdays meant kids across the country were zooming down to the newsagents on their Choppers (yes, the most famous kids bike in ’70s Britain was called the Chopper), Grifters, Budgies and Tomahawks and grabbing the latest issue (along with the obligatory 10-penny mix if they’d earned their pocket money that week).

Issue No. 3 arrived behind an action-packed cover (which I will say with confidence was inked by Tom Palmer) showing a very mature and confident Luke ordering Ben Kenobi to “swing that lightsabre Ben or we’re finished!” (note the British spelling of “lightsabre” which was prevalent both sides of the pond in those days). And by looking at this scene — which quite clearly wasn’t in the film itself — young Skywalker would be correct. A HUGE green Gotal looms large as Ben swings his red blade and Luke blasts a beaked alien into oblivion. No half measures here — Marvel UK wanted to grab a young fan base by the scruff of the neck and let them know that Star Wars Weekly was THE comic to buy (all that for just 10 pennies!). Kellee Patterson might have been singing “If It Don’t Fit Don’t Force It,” but in an age when so little product was available, anything goes.

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