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TIL that the Marvel Comics adaptation of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi was accidentally shipped out to stores a month before the movie was released, and when Mark Hamill, who is a comic book fan, noticed this, he contacted Marvel's sales manager and they tried to get the book off the stands

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