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Auction History Result 9a053 EMPIRE STRIKES BACK teal 1sh R1982 George Lucas classic, Tom Jung, ultra rare teal background! Date Sold 9/15/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1982 Re-Release Theatrical Unfolded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) The Empire Strikes Back (now known as "Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back"), the classic 1980 Irvin Kershner science fiction (sci-fi) outer space action adventure sequel ("The Star Wars Saga Continues"; "Story by George Lucas") starring Mark Hamill (as Luke Skywalker), Harrison Ford (as Han Solo), Carrie Fisher (as Princess Leia), Billy Dee Williams (as Lando Calrissian), Anthony Daniels ("as C-3PO"), David Prowse ("as Darth Vader"), Kenny Baker ("as R2-D2"), Peter Mayhew ("as Chewbacca"), Frank Oz ("as Yoda"), Alec Guinness (as Obi-Wan Kenobi), Jeremy Bulloch (as Boba Fett), and John Hollis (as Lobot) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Tom Jung Important Added Info: Note that this is the unfolded "NSS style" version of this poster, but unlike the "regular" NSS style, which has a dark blue background, THIS poster has a light blue background (it has been long referred to by advanced Star Wars collectors as the "teal background style", although we don't know that teal is the best word to describe this color!), and we think it is surely a "test" poster (meaning it was printed solely to get people's opinion of the colors, and it would have surely been printed in a very limited quantity), which would account for its great rarity! We would think that after studio people (including likely George Lucas) saw this poster, they did not like the color at all, and immediately changed it to a dark blue, and we would be amazed if any of these light blue background one-sheets were distributed to theaters. We have only auctioned this style two times before (once in 2014, and that one was linenbacked and restored, and the other earlier this year, and that one was in "good" condition, because it had the same 1" area of different coloring down the center of the poster that this one does, but it came from a consignor from a different part of the world, and that one sold for $1,452) and it is certainly one of the most rare Empire Strikes Back posters there is! Condition: good. The poster was never machine folded. It has some tiny dot stains and smudges in two places in the left blank border and a few tiny creases in the rest of the borders. It also has a 1" wide area down the center of the poster, where the color is printed differently than the rest of the poster (you see this most in the teal background at top and bottom and in parts of the image area, most strongly Vader's shoulder). We would think this is almost certainly a "test" poster (see above), and it is likely that they were not careful during the printing, which would account for why it has this printing defect. As noted above, the only two other examples of this poster we auctioned may have had this same defect, because one definitely had it, and the other was linenbacked and restored, and we can't say for certain if that "defect" was restored. Obviously, one could have this printing defect corrected through restoration (and at the same time, one could address the very minor border defects), but we certainly would understand someone wanting to keep this incredibly rare poster just as it is, especially because it is "part" of the poster and can be regarded as a "printing defect". Please look at our super-sized image to see exactly what this printing defect is and what condition the poster is in. Learn More about condition grades 
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