Star Wars had a fan club as far back as 1978, the year after the first movie was released. The fan club offered a yearly subscription to a Star Wars periodical and a membership kit. From 1978 to 1986, the periodical was called Bantha Tracks. In 1987 Bantha Tracks transformed into the Lucasfilm Fan Club Magazine. In 1994 the Lucasfilm Fan Club Magazine was renamed to the Star Wars Insider which has been the name of the magazine to this day. Over the years, the membership kits included items like patches, stickers, posters, pencils, and other Star Wars branded merchandise. The name of the official Star Wars fan club from 2004 - 2010 was called the Hyperspace Fan Club. The last year of the Hyperspace Fan Club had a membership kit that included a Dark Horse comic that reprints the Thank the Maker story from Star Wars Tales #6.
Star Wars Fan Club 2010 - Dark Horse Comics, U.S. (2010)Thank the Maker is one of the more memorable stories from the Star Wars Tales anthology title. In this story, which fits seamlessly between scenes in the Empire Strikes Back, Dark Vader is haunted by memories of his past life on Tatooine when he encounters the remains of C-3PO. (Remember, C-3PO was blasted to pieces by Stormtroopers on Cloud City.)
This comic is one of the harder to find comics published by Dark Horse. A copy sold on eBay on January 10th, 2015 for $340.
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