By that time, I had the chance to peruse yet another issue of the Marvel comic, so I had a pretty good feel for the shape of the first half of the story. It would be more than a month before I got to see the film. Sure enough, that combination of letters wasn't there. I made her show me the newspaper movie listing, because even though I couldn't read, I could still recognize the letters STAR WARS. So I almost didn't believe my momma when I asked her, as she read over the morning paper, what time Star Wars was playing - and she told me it wasn't. Of course, what I didn't understand then is that movies didn't come out everywhere at the same time, the way they do these days. And I knew already that this story was going to be my Favorite Thing Ever. But that's the beauty of Star Wars, isn't it? You don't need to understand the words to understand the story. I already had the first two issues of the Marvel Comics adaptation of the film, and no, I couldn't read them. I'm not sure where I heard it - probably from my uncle, who kept me abreast of all cool things on the horizon, or maybe it was from the Starlog or Famous Monsters articles that I made my momma read to me in lieu of storybooks - but I knew that Star Wars was coming to theaters on May 25. Forty years ago this week, I faced what must have certainly been the greatest disappointment of my little life to that point.
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