Star Wars Insider 59 is the fifty-ninth issue of Star Wars Insider magazine. It was released to newsstands on April 2, 2002. This issue celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Star Wars franchise in the lead-up to the theatrical release of the prequel trilogy film Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones.
Contents
Departments
- A Word From George Lucas
- Rebel Rumblings
- Attack of the Clones Update (by Dan Madsen)
- Star News: From the World of Lucasfilm (by Benjamin Harper)
- Gamescape — Enter the Arena (by Michael Mikaelian)
- Bookshelf — Living the Rebel Dream (by Jason Fry)
- Comics Link — Attack of the Clones (by Daniel Wallace)
- Set Piece: Rebel Alliance Briefing Room (by Christopher Trevas and Chris Reiff)
- Scouting the Galaxy — Midnight Madness: Episode II (by Steve Sansweet)
- Crossword — The Other Sci-Fi Work (by Michael Selinker)
- Star Wars Q&A (by Pablo Hidalgo)
- The Last Page
Features
- "Han Solo: Ford Tough" (by Michael G. Ryan)
- It's hard to imagine a world without Harrison Ford as Han Solo or Indiana Jones. Also, Insider catches up with Peter Mayhew, the man behind the mighty Chewbacca.
- "Princess Leia: When Carrie Met Leia" (by Scott Chernoff)
- Anyone could have guessed that Carrie Fisher was destined for stardom, but no one could have predicted how.
- "Luke Skywalker: From Jedi to Joker" (by Cory J. Herndon)
- Everything you thought you knew about Mark Hamill.
- "Who's Who in Rogue Squadron" (by Jason Fry)
- The New Republic's elite starfighter farce has fought Death Stars, AT-ATs, Yuuzhan Vong, and countless other threats to the galaxy.
- "A Cast of Thousands: The Making of The New Essential Guide to Star Wars Characters" (by Daniel Wallace)
- You can thank Attack of the Clones for this new edition of Del Rey's popular Essential Guide to Characters. Insider has two entries you can't find anywhere else.
- "Skywalker Scrapbook" (by Benjamin Harper)
- Lucy Autrey Wilson has been a Lucasfilm employee as long as there's been a Lucasfilm.
- "Following the Bantha Tracks" (by Chris Fawcett)
- Before Star Wars Insider, there was a little newsletter called Bantha Tracks.
Sources
25 Years of Star Wars in New Insider on StarWars.com (original site is defunct)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 25 Years of Star Wars in New Insider on StarWars.com (original site is defunct)
External links
Star Wars Insider #59 on Wizards.com (original site is defunct)
