Dressed in black uniforms
Captain Harlock by ~Veus-T
HARLOCK INFLUENCE IN AMERICA
October : Anime influences in regular comic books become apparent. A brash example is in Marvel Comics’Star Wars no.79 by Jo Duffy and Tom Palmer, where Lando Calrissian (in disguise) is drawn as a pastiche of Space Pirate Captain Harlock.
Fred Patten, Watching anime, reading manga: 25 years of essays and reviews, 2004, p32
In the English-speaking world, manga are not only read, but – increasingly – emulated; Fred Pattern, in an article titled “1977-1992 : Fifteen Years of North Americain Fandom,” notes one of the first “brash” examples of Japanese anime/manga influences on an American comic book : in 1983, a character in issue 79 of Marvel Comics’ Star Wars (scripted and drawn by Tom Palmer and manga fan Jo Duffy) was drawn as a pastiche of Leiji Matsumoto’s famous Captain Harlock space-pirate character.
Frederik L. Schodt, Dreamland Japan: writings on modern manga, 2007 , p 326
Star Wars issue 79 cover, jan 1983 – from JCF
Lando Calrissian disguised as Captain Drebble
Star Wars 79# “The Big Con”
After being sent on a search for Han Solo in a previous issue, Lando Calrissian and Chewbacca travel to the planet Arcan IV to interview some old contemporaries of Solo’s, Lemo and Sanda’s gang. In order to not rouse their suspicions, the two travel to the world in Lando’s ship, the Cobra instead of the Millennium Falcon. Lando and Chewbacca both wear a disguise to enter Lemo and Sanda’s den, and Calrissian identifies himself as Captain Drebble, claiming that he is searching for Solo.(wiki)
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