When it comes to foreign comics, it is rare when a new vintage Star Wars comic is discovered. About a year and a half ago, Sebastian Legarburo posted images of his Iranian Star Wars comic on the Foreign Comic Collector Magazine Facebook group which was amazing! Here was a comic I wasn't aware of and I could now search out for my collection!
Fast forward to today and I'm happy to have found a copy! It was published in Persian by Sepehr Printing House in Tehran on the Solar Hijri calendar year of 1360 which translates to March 21, 1981 through March 30, 1982. This comic was published just after the Iranian Revolution and during their Cultural Revolution "when the academia of Iran was purged of Western and non-Islamic influences (including traditionalist unpolitical Islamic doctrines) to align them with the revolution and political Islam." (Cultural Revolution in Iran from Wikipedia)
Star Wars - Sepehr Printing House, Iran (SH 1360)
If the artwork looks familiar, that is because it is the same cover used on Star Wars Annual #1 from Brown Watson published in England.
Star Wars Annual #1a - Brown Watson, England (Spring 1978)
In fact, this comic translates that British annual, complete with the shorter 48 page comic story and mixture of black and white pages and color pages. You can read about how they turned a 104 page comic story into just 48 pages in the posting British Star Wars Annual #1 (Brown Watson).
Instead of showing "Annual No. 1" on the cover below the Star Wars logo, this book instead says "Translated by: Faryal Fashihi". The book is slightly larger than standard U.S. comics measuring 7 1/2" x 11".
