Lucasfilm fan newsletters
Collection
Identifier: MAG-LUCASNEWS
Scope and Contents
This partial collection includes three Lucasfilm newsletters:
- Bantha Tracks (originally Official Star Wars Fan Club)
- The Lucasfilm Fan Club (later Star Wars Insider)
- The Adventurer, the newsletter for Lucasfilm Games/LucasArts
The library only actively collects additional issues of these newsletters related to Lucasfilm video games.
Dates
- Publication: 1978–1996
Creator
- Lucasfilm, Ltd (Publisher, Organization)
Extent
3 Collections
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Lucasfilm published several different fan newsletters through the 1970s–90s, including one specific to Lucasfilm Games (later LucasArts). While these newsletters mainly focused on Lucasfilm's movie output, particularly Star Wars, they also covered other projects at the company, including their games.
Custodial History
Initial issues of Bantha Tracks (Issues 23, 25–26, and 35) were donated by former LucasArts designer Noah Falstein.
General
Held:
- Bantha Tracks
- Issues 23, 25–26, 35
- The Lucasfilm Fan Club
- Issues 1–15
- The Adventurer
- Issues 1, 3–6
Known Missing:
- Bantha Tracks
- Issues 1–22 (March 1978 – November 1983)
- Issue 24 (Spring 1984)
- Issues 27–34 (Winter 1985 – Autumn 1986)
- The Lucasfilm Fan Club
- Issues 16–22 (Spring 1992 – Spring 1994)
- The Adventurer
- Issue 2 (Spring 1991)
- Issues 7–14 (Winter 1994 – Winter 1997)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Video Game History Foundation Library Repository