Via Starwars.com:
THE MEMORABLE ISSUES FEATURES COMICS, ADS FOR STAR WARS BATH BUBBLES, AND MUCH MORE.

Star Wars in the UK is a feature in which StarWars.com looks at how our friends across the galactic pond experienced the saga through the years.

Two years of stepping back to 1978, our tour of the first dozen issues of Star Wars Weekly comes to an end as we take a look at issue 12. Hitting UK newsagents on Wednesday April 26th 1978, the cover screamed that we were about to experience the “SOUL-SHATTERING CLIMAX OF THE YEAR’S MOST SENSATIONAL MOVIE.” Behind a Howard Bender cover showing Luke and Vader clashing, both brandishing red lightsabres (and I spell it that way intentionally, as that’s how it was presented in the magazine back in ’78), we see a red X-wing hunt down Vader’s yellow TIE fighter over a blue Death Star. It was still 10p to buy, still packed full of great back-up strips and increasingly essential for kids of the day to own.

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