Thanks for the recommendation
there’s a 1080p version on prime.
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Annie, is that you?
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Might it have been from The Star Wars Storybook? (Scholastic sold it.) There’s a specific sentence in there where they talk about “the robots” in the corridor (i.e. at the beginning of the film)… They mean C-3PO and R2-D2, but the way it is written seems to refer to the storm troopers. So I had the same idea myself, for a bit.
Also, the way they said Vader was “feared by his own men,” 7-year-old me read as “scared by his own men,” which actually kind of made sense in the way that a bully is supposedly scared of someone or something else…
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Forgot all about that. Kudos!
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Matinee at the Bijou?
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Last year TCM ran “Terry & The Pirates” on Saturday morning.
Every episode was like that, a cliffhanger that next week turned out to be a fake.
It was a bad serial (I couldn’t figure out where it was set) but I’m glad I watched it to get a feel for what it was like when it was new. A short episode each week, screened with other material, but you kept comming back to see what happened.
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Well, it was a long time ago in a cinema far, far away.
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I had chickenpox when Star Wars came out. I had to sit in bed and listen to my nephew tell me all about it. He somehow knew that Darth Vader had a nasty encounter with some lava and that’s why he wore the suit. I still don’t know how he knew that in 1977.
Anyway, I did get a Stormtrooper action figure as a consolation. We moved shortly thereafter so I didn’t get to see it until 1978 at a drive-in theater as a double feature followed by Laserblast. To my (very sleepy) child’s mind at the time, the aliens in Laserblast became forever entwined with Hammerhead from the Star Wars cantina scene. 
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No - I’ve never read any SW hardcopy that I recall, and certainly wouldn’t have encountered any pre-release
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