SAN DIEGO, CA.- Julien’s Auctions and Turner Classic Movies took Comic-Con International ® weekend by storm with “Echoes from the Galaxy,” their second annual blockbuster event held at Comic-Con Museum in San Diego that kicked off with an exclusive Star Wars exhibition held July 14-27th and concluded today Sunday, July 27th in a spectacular auction that sold the world’s largest collection of Star Wars artifacts from renowned collectors, fans and insiders of the epic franchise. Part of the proceeds from the auction will benefit Comic-Con Museum.

The star of the event was an original Stormtrooper helmet screen-used in Star Wars: A New Hope that was exhibited at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library’s 2024 exhibition “Defending America and the Galaxy: Star Wars and SDI” (sold for $256,000). This original stunt helmet used in the production is believed to be featured in scenes on Tatooine as a "Sandtrooper" helmet and is one of only six stunt helmets known to have survived and are accounted for in private collections.

Highlights included (with winning bids):

• An original stunt lightsaber prop used by Ewan McGregor as "Obi-Wan Kenobi" and original bladed lightsaber prop used by Liam Neeson as “Qui-Gon Jinn” in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (each lot $38,400)

• An original lightsaber hilt prop screen-used by Ray Park as “Darth Maul” in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace ($76,800)

• A screen-matched Resistance pilot helmet “Red Four” from Star Wars: The Force Awakens with a Lucasfilm COA ($32,000)

• An original hero metal GLIE-44 blaster used by Oscar Issac as "Poe Dameron" in Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens ($44,800)

• Rare original 1983 Kenner card back proofs for the 3.75" scale action figures of Princess Leia Organa, C-3PO and Boba Fett related to Star Wars: Return of the Jedi from the brief period (circa 1982) when the film was named Revenge of the Jedi (each $10,240)

• An original production-made lightsaber for Luke Skywalker played by Mark Hamill, cast from the molds of a touring lightsaber from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi ($25,600)

• An original prop right hand worn by Anthony Daniels as C-3PO in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back ($16,000) and film production-made "C-3PO" reference left hand prop for Disney Imagineers ($8,960)

• "Holographic Tumbler" ensemble designed by Bob Mackie worn in the infamous 1978 The Star Wars Holiday Special television program

• Industrial Light Magic-made Stormtrooper appearance costume ($12,800)

• "The Jedi Adventure Center" framed design artwork with transparencies, color palette, original sketch, and more ($16,000, 20 X estimate of $800)

Nearly 300 of some of the sci-fi franchise’s most coveted props, production materials and memorabilia assembled by world renowned Star Wars memorabilia collectors, Steve Sansweet, Gus Lopez, Duncan Jenkins, and Lisa Stevens and Vic Wertz, were offered to the public with the intention of creating The Saga Museum® of Star Wars Memorabilia. For more info visit TheSagaMuseum.org Partial proceeds of the auction will help lay the cornerstone of the future Saga Museum’s permanent home for their collections.