The Dutch magazine Pep began publication in 1962 and it initially included imported material from the United States and Belgium. In the mid 1960s however, this anthology magazine began featuring more local talent and is responsible for launching some of the longer lasting, well known Dutch comics, including Martin Lodewijk's Agent 327 and Peter de Smet's De Generaal. One comic strip in the magazine created by Dutch artist Uco Egmond in 1973 is Eppo, named after the strip's main character. When the Pep magazine merged with another anthology comic magazine Sjors in 1975, the new publication was named Eppo after Egmond's strip. The Eppo magazine continued to publish the Agent 327 and De Generaal comics, but they were joined by equally popular comics like Henk Kuijpers' Franka, Jan Steeman and Andrew Brandt's Roel Dijkstra, and Don Lawrence's Storm.
Eppo was published weekly and the numbering was restarted every year. Issue #13 and 14 in 1982 contains 8-page Star Wars comic strip supplements. The black and white supplements are stapled to the center of the magazine and are slightly smaller than the magazine's dimensions of 8" x 10 1/2". The supplements feature The Bounty Hunter of Ord Mantell story. Eppo #13 contains material found in the strip from March 1st to March 22nd and Issue #14 contains material from March 23rd to April 19th. The comic strip is edited to fit in the 8-page format.
The cover of Eppo #13 features Berck's comic strip Lowietje. A blurb on the cover reads Extra Star Wars Mini-Album Deel 1 or Extra Star Wars Mini Album Part 1.
Don Lawrence's Storm is featured on the cover of Eppo #14. A blurb on the cover reads Deel 2 Miniboekje Star Wars or Part 2 Mini Booklet Star Wars.
There are other issues of Eppo that contain Star Wars comics.
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