Tracking:

• numbering continues from The Empire Strikes Back Monthly (Marvel UK, 1980 series) #158

Notes:

Next relaunched as a weekly from #1: Return of the Jedi Weekly (Marvel UK, 1983 series).

Brief list of main Back-up features/stories:

Rom was a backup in issues #160-166, covering issues Rom #22-24 & 26.
(The double-sized #25 was reprinted in the Rom Summer Special.)

#167 onwards Rom was replaced with Indiana Jones (by Byrne & Austin).
Next relaunched as a weekly from #1: Return of the Jedi (Marvel UK, 1983 series).

There was also a few backup fillers like Tales of the Watchers in #159 and a couple of JIM ones in #162 and #164.

#160 - #22 (reprinted 13 pages only as they cut 3 pages out)
#161-162 - #23 (reprinted as 13 then 8 pages chapters in each issue)
#163-164 - #24 (reprinted as 12 then 9 pages chapters in each issue)
#165-166 - #26 (reprinted as 13 then 8 pages chapters in each issue)

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