I was 13 when I read this book called STAR WARS The Adventures of Luke Skywalker. It was the spring of 1977, I recall devouring the story after finding about the book after reading a blurb in a new magazine I saw called STARLOG. Of course it changed my life. I was a farm boy, My folks recently purchased a farm in the country, and we had been there 2 years. I moved form the City of Minneapolis, to a small town in Central MN. I could relate to seeing the rest of the universe.
So what are my favorite things? Not surprising some of the earliest items available. 
My Autographed picture form Darth Vader, he visited the Mall B Daltons Bookstore.
WonderBread Trading cards, and the GM trading card sets and of course the Topp’s cards.
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The Die cast ships…
Model Kits.. I customized a falcon with black light paint, and lighted interior. – Of course, I wanted to go to hollywood and be a special effects artist, after seeing the models Brian Johnson and Derek Meddings 
did for space 1999 and other Gerry Anderson productions.
and Lastly the early posters, the Fan Club ,Trench poster, the Soundtrack space battle,poster , and finally Marvel Comics, Awesome art, and cheap for a kid to buy. at 35 cents. !!
