The rarest Star Wars poster ever printed was a poster for a one-time showing of Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi for charity. Only 9 theaters put on the movies and each theater received only 2 posters. A bootleg for the showing of the Plitt Carnegie was produced. This poster doesn’t look anything like the originals. First, the bootleg was taken from a newspaper advertisment that had the opening tagline written on two lines. The original poster used three lines. Second, the paper used for the bootleg is very thin almost like newsprint. The original poster is not printed and is actually an enlarged photo developed on a heavy card stock and has a slight textured surface. In all the years that I have collected Star Wars posters, I’ve only seen one original poster for sale.

Here is a picture of the bootleg. A picture of the original can be found on page 144 The Star Wars Poster Book by Sansweet and Vilmur.

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