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1977 'Star Wars' Painting Sells for Record $3.9M at Dallas Auction

Summary by Dallas Innovates
Dallas Innovates, Every Day: Here's what's new + next in North Texas. On May 12, 1977, the world didn’t know about The Force. Or a boy named Luke and a deep-breathing villain named Darth. Or X-Wing Fighters, Obi-Wan Kenobi, R2D2, and a whole universe of “Star Wars” storytelling. But one day later that changed, when an acrylic and airbrush painting (above) by illustrator and movie poster designer Tom Jung appeared in newspaper ads coast to coast,…
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Dallas Innovates broke the news in on Tuesday, December 16, 2025.
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