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Opposite, from
top: Inside the Egg Co.
Offices circa 1979
(photo by Michael
Neese); an envelope
that commemorates
50 years of talking
pictures, from The Jazz
Singer to Star Wars
(courtesy Diana Attias);
the back of a Topps
trading card featuring
material edited by
the team.

This page (clockwise
from top right):
The Wookiee
Storybook; Marvel
Comics Star Wars #24;
The Star Wars Album, a
rare look behind the
scenes; The Art of The
Empire Strikes Back.

A Lasting Legacy
A L L Valerie Hoffman obtained a EXPANDED
doctorate in psychology. Deborah
Call became a vice-president of Avco
MICHAEL KOGGE most recently wrote
ost of the editorial staff Embassy Pictures and the associate
“Gentleman of Virginia” for A Princess of Mars—
decided not to head dean of the University of Southern The Annotated Edition—and New Tales of the Red
north. Titelman had California’s Law School. Ira Planet (Sword & Planet Press).
Mmarried music producer Friedman continued his association
Russ Titelman and moved to New with Star Wars, as the vice-president UNIVERSE
York, where she worked as a of licensing and publishing at Topps.
freelance writer and photographer. Though none of the original team
Charley Lippincott and Sherry remain today at Lucasfi lm, their
Kaplan took jobs at Dino De effort to maintain a consistent, Special thanks to Carol Fazzio,
Laurentiis’s production company. story-driven universe became a Valerie Hoffman, Lindsay Smith,
Lindsay Smith went on to write Back cornerstone of Star Wars publishing. Sherry Kaplan, Diana Attias, Shelle
in the U.S.S.R. (starring Roman Hundreds of books and comics have Neese, Deborah Call, Ira Friedman,

Polanski), the first American fi lm to been published since, all part of an Barb Lakin, Arnie Carvalho, Russ
employ a Russian crew and actors. inter-connected mythology. a Helm, and Bill Stout.

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