''Star Wars'' comics

Star Wars

Cover for Star Wars #1 (1977)
Art by Howard Chaykin and Tom Palmer.
Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
(1977–1987, 2015–present)
Dark Horse Comics
(1991–2014)
IDW Publishing
(2017–present)
Schedule Weekly
Formats Original material for the series has been published as a set of ongoing series, limited series, and one-shot comics.
Genre
Publication date April 1977 – present
Number of issues Marvel (1st run): 138 issues
Dark Horse Comics: 838 standard issues, 65 short issues and 35 graphic novels
Marvel (2nd run): 131 issues
Reprints
Collected editions
Omnibus Volume 1 ISBN 1-59307-572-3

Star Wars comics have been produced by various comic book publishers since the debut of the 1977 film Star Wars. An eponymous series by Marvel Comics began in 1977 with a six-issue comic adaptation of the film and ran for 107 issues, until 1986. Blackthorne Publishing released a three-issue run of 3-D comics from 1987 to 1988. Dark Horse published the limited series Star Wars: Dark Empire in 1991, and ultimately produced over 100 Star Wars titles until 2014, including manga adaptations of the original trilogy of films and the 1999 prequel The Phantom Menace. The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel in 2009 and Lucasfilm and in 2012, and the Star Wars comics license returned to Marvel in 2015. In 2017, IDW Publishing launched the anthology series Star Wars Adventures.[1]

Publishers

Marvel (1977–1987)

Charles Lippincott, Lucasfilm's publicity supervisor, initially approached publisher Stan Lee at Marvel Comics in 1975 about publishing a Star Wars comic book prior to the film's release as a means to appeal to its most likely audience. Lee initially declined to consider such a proposal until the film was completed, and was only persuaded otherwise in a second meeting arranged by Roy Thomas, who wanted to edit the series. Since movie tie-in comics rarely sold well at that time, Lee negotiated a publishing arrangement which gave no royalties to Lucasfilm until sales exceeded 100,000. At that point, legal arrangements could be revisited.[2] Issue #1 of Star Wars was released for sale on April 12, 1977,[3][4][5][6] and Marvel published the series from 1977 to 1986, lasting 107 issues and three annuals.[7] According to former Marvel Editor-In-Chief Jim Shooter, the strong sales of Star Wars comics saved Marvel financially in 1977 and 1978.[8] Marvel's Star Wars series was one of the industry's top selling titles in 1979 and 1980.[9] The only downside for Marvel was that the 100,000 copy sales quota was surpassed quickly, allowing Lippincott to renegotiate the royalty arrangements from a position of strength.[10]

Issues #1–6 featured an adaptation of the events of Star Wars by Roy Thomas and artist Howard Chaykin.[11] Original stories began appearing as of issue #7 (January 1978) by the same creative team. Writer Archie Goodwin and artist Carmine Infantino took over the series as of #11 (May 1978).[12] A six-issue adaptation of the 1980 sequel film The Empire Strikes Back by Goodwin and artists Al Williamson and Carlos Garzon appeared in issues #39–44 (September 1980–February 1981).[13] Writer David Michelinie and artist Walt Simonson became the new creative team with issue #51 (September 1981).[14] Ron Frenz became the regular artist of the title starting with #71 (May 1983).[15] As of 1984, the Star Wars series was primarily written by Jo Duffy, and art for the final year-and-a-half of the series was by Cynthia Martin.[14]

Original Star Wars comics were also serialized in the Marvel magazine Pizzazz between 1977 and 1979. The 1977 installments were the first original Star Wars stories not directly adapted from the films to appear in print form, as they preceded those of the Star Wars comic series.[16] The first story arc, titled "The Keeper's World", was by Thomas, Chaykin, and Tony DeZuniga, and was later reprinted by Dark Horse Comics. The second story arc, entitled "The Kingdom of Ice", was by Goodwin, Simonson, Klaus Janson, Dave Cockrum, and John Tartaglione. The final two chapters were scheduled to be printed in issues 17 and 18, but the magazine was cancelled after the 16th issue. Marvel UK reprinted "The Keeper's World" in Star Wars Weekly #47–50, and "The Kingdom of Ice" (including the previously unreleased chapters) in Star Wars Weekly #57–60, between 1978 and 1979.

Marvel's adaptation of Return of the Jedi (October 1983–January 1984) appeared in a separate, eponymous four-issue limited series[17] as well as in Marvel Super Special #27[18][19] and in a mass market paperback.[20]

From 1985–1987, the animated children's series Ewoks and Droids inspired comic series from Marvel's Star Comics line.[21][22][23]

Marvel's Star Wars comics were also reprinted in the UK as a weekly black and white comics anthology by Marvel UK which, in addition to the Star Wars strips, included other Marvel strips such as The Micronauts, Deathlok, Star-Lord, Warlock and Tales of the Watcher. The weekly UK issues split the stories from the US monthly issues into smaller installments, and it usually took around three weekly issues to complete a US monthly issue. The UK comic also published original Star Wars stories by British creators. Star Wars Weekly #1 was published with a free cut-out X-wing fighter on February 8, 1978.[24] It became The Empire Strikes Back Weekly from issue #118 in May 1980, and then became a monthly title from issue #140 in November 1980, reverting to the title Star Wars with issue #159 in July 1982. The monthly comic ran until issue #171 in July 1983, when the numbering was reset at #1 for Return of the Jedi Weekly, which was the first time the UK comic had been printed in color.[25][26][27] This is the title and format that remained until the last issue (#155) was published in June 1986. Further original content was published in issues #94–99, #104–115, #149, #153–157. Throughout this eight-year period, Marvel UK also published several Star Wars annuals and specials.

Marvel
Star Wars #1–107 April 1977–May 1986
Star Wars Annual #1–3 December 1979–December 1983
Marvel Illustrated Books Star Wars #1–2 November 1981–October 1982
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi #1–4 October 1983–January 1984
Star Wars: Ewoks #1–14 May 1985–July 1987
Star Wars: Droids #1–8 April 1986–June 1987

Pendulum Press (1978)

In 1978, Pendulum Press, under their educational series Contemporary Motivators, also published a 31-page loose adaptation of Star Wars by Linda A. Cadrain and Charles Nicholas. Produced as part of a package which included an audio tape and a film strip, the comic was specifically designed for classroom use, with typeset instead of hand lettering, and vocabulary appropriate for children.[28]

Blackthorne (1987–1988)

Blackthorne Publishing released a three-issue series called Star Wars 3D from December 1987 to February 1988. The comics were later reprinted in a black-and-white, non-3-D format by Dark Horse in their 2013 Star Wars Omnibus: Wild Space, Volume 1.

Dark Horse (1991–2014)

In the late 1980s, writer Tom Veitch and artist Cam Kennedy secured a deal to produce a Star Wars comic for Archie Goodwin at Epic Comics, a Marvel imprint. After the project was announced, Goodwin left Marvel, which dropped the comic. Dark Horse Comics subsequently published it as the popular Dark Empire sequence (1991–1995).[29] Dark Horse subsequently launched dozens of series set after the original film trilogy, including Tales of the Jedi (1993–1998), X-wing Rogue Squadron (1995–1998), Star Wars: Republic (1998–2006), Star Wars Tales (1999–2005), Star Wars: Empire (2002–2006), and Knights of the Old Republic (2006–2010).[30][31]

Knights of the Old Republic and Legacy ended in 2010. Instead of publishing ongoing series, Dark Horse began publishing "series of miniseries", including:

From 1998 to 1999, Dark Horse produced Star Wars manga, adapting the original trilogy and Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace as manga with all the typical narrative and stylistic characteristics of the form. Dark Horse also published miniseries adapting The Phantom Menace, Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and The Thrawn Trilogy.

Dark Horse
Star Wars: Dark Empire #1–6 December 1991 – October 1992
Classic Star Wars #1–20 August 1992 – June 1994
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi #1–35 October 1993 – November 1998
Droids #1–17 April 1994 – September 1997
Classic Star Wars: The Early Adventures #1–9 August 1994 – April 1995
Star Wars: Dark Empire II #1–6 December 1994 – May 1995
Star Wars: Jabba the Hutt #1–4 April 1995 – February 1996
Star Wars: River of Chaos #1–4 June–October 1995
Star Wars: X-wing Rogue Squadron #0–35 July 1995 – October 1998
Star Wars: Empire's End #1–2 October–November 1995
Star Wars: Heir to the Empire #1–6 October 1995 – April 1996
Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind's Eye #1–4 December 1995 – June 1996
Star Wars: Boba Fett #1–11 December 1995 – April 2006
Star Wars: Tales from Mos Eisley one-shot March 1996
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire #1–6 May–October 1996
Classic Star Wars: Devilworlds #1–2 August–September 1996
Star Wars: This Crumb for Hire one-shot 10-page August 1996
Classic Star Wars: Han Solo at Stars' End #1–3 March–May 1997
Star Wars: Dark Force Rising #1–6 May–October 1997
Star Wars: Shadow Stalker one-shot November 1997
Star Wars: The Last Command #1–6 November 1997 – July 1998
Star Wars: Crimson Empire #1–6 December 1997 – May 1998
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire: Evolution #1–5 February–June 1998
Star Wars: Mara Jade: By the Emperor's Hand #0–6 July 1998 – February 1999
Star Wars: Jedi Academy: Leviathan #1–4 October 1998 – January 1999
Star Wars: Crimson Empire II: Council of Blood #1–6 November 1998 – April 1999
Star Wars: Republic #0–83 December 1998 – February 2006
Star Wars: The Jabba Tape one-shot December 1998
Star Wars: Vader's Quest #1–4 February–May 1999
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace #1–4 May 1999
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Adventures #1–5 May 1999
Star Wars: The Bounty Hunters #1–3 August–October 1999
Star Wars Tales #1–24 September 1999 – July 2005
Star Wars: Union #1–4 November 1999 – February 2000
Star Wars: Chewbacca #1–4 January–April 2000
Star Wars: Hard Currency one-shot 8-page March 2000
Star Wars: Jedi Council: Acts of War #1–4 June–September 2000
Star Wars: Aurra's Song one-shot 12-page June 2000
Star Wars: Darth Maul #1–4 September–December 2000
Star Wars: Underworld: The Yavin Vassilika #1–5 December 2000 – June 2001
Star Wars: Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan: Last Stand on Ord Mantell #1–3 December 2000 – March 2001
Star Wars: Jedi vs. Sith #1–6 April–September 2001
Star Wars Infinities #1–12 May 2001 – March 2014
Star Wars: Heart of Fire one-shot 3-page May 2001 – July 2002
Star Wars: Jedi Quest #1–4 September–December 2001
Star Wars: Starfighter: Crossbones #1–3 January–March 2002
Star Wars: Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan: The Aurorient Express #1–2 February–June 2002
Star Wars: Poison Moon one-shot 6-page February–May 2002
Star Wars: Jango Fett one-shot TPB March 2002
Star Wars: Zam Wesell one-shot TPB March 2002
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones #1–4 April–May 2002
Star Wars: Hasbro/Toys "R" Us #1–4 10-page May 2002
Star Wars: Jango Fett: Open Seasons #1–4 May–September 2002
Star Wars: Empire #1–40 September 2002 – March 2006
Star Wars: A Valentine Story one-shot February 2003
Star Wars: Jedi #1–5 March 2003 – July 2004
Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures #1–10 (graphic novels) July 2004 – December 2007
Star Wars: Evasive Action: Reversal of Fortune #1–8 October 2004 – June 2005
Star Wars: Obsession #1–5 November 2004 – May 2005
Star Wars: General Grievous #1–4 March–July 2005
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith #1–4 March–April 2005
Star Wars: Visionaries one-shot TPB April 2005
Star Wars: Brothers in Arms one-shot May 2005
Star Wars: Evasive Action: Recruitment #1–6 August–December 2005
Star Wars: X-Wing: Rogue Leader #1–3 September–November 2005
Star Wars: Purge #1–5 December 2005 – January 2013
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic #0–50 January 2006 – February 2010
Star Wars: Rookies: Rendezvous #1–3 February–June 2006
Star Wars: Rebellion #0–16 March 2006 – August 2008
Star Wars: Evasive Action: Prey #1–3 March–November 2006
Star Wars: Routine Valor one-shot 10-page May 2006
Star Wars: Legacy #1–50 June 2006 – August 2010
Star Wars: Rookies: No Turning Back #1–4 June–October 2006
Star Wars: Dark Times #0–32 November 2006 – December 2012
Star Wars: Evasive Action: End Game #1–4 November 2006 – March 2007
Star Wars: Clone Wars (PhotoComic) one-shot TPB May 2008
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed one-shot TPB August 2008
Star Wars: The Clone Wars #1–12 September 2008 – January 2010
Star Wars: The Clone Wars #1–11 (graphic novels) September 2008 – June 2013
Star Wars: Invasion #0–16 April 2009 – November 2011
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Gauntlet of Death one-shot 8-page May 2009
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Act on Instinct #1–25 3-page September 2009 – May 2010
Star Wars Adventures #1–6 (graphic novels) October 2009 – August 2011
Star Wars: The Old Republic #1–11 July 2010 – October 2011
Star Wars: Tales from the Clone Wars one-shot TPB August 2010
Star Wars: Blood Ties #1–8 August 2010 – July 2012
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II one-shot TPB September 2010
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Valsedian Operation #1–26 3-page September 2010 – April 2011
Star Wars: Knight Errant #1–15 October 2010 – October 2012
Star Wars: Legacy—War #1–6 December 2010 – May 2011
Star Wars: Darth Vader #1–20 January 2011 – April 2014
Star Wars: Jedi #1–5 May–September 2011
Star Wars: The Third Time Pays for All one-shot 8-page April 2011
Star Wars: Crimson Empire III: Empire Lost #1–6 October 2011 – April 2012
Star Wars: Agent of the Empire #1–10 December 2011 – February 2013
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic—War #1–5 January–May 2012
Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi #1–15 February 2012 – March 2014
Star Wars: The Art of the Bad Deal one-shot 10-page May 2012
Star Wars: Darth Maul—Death Sentence #1–4 July–October 2012
Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #1–5 August–December 2012
Star Wars #1–20 January 2013 – August 2014
Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 #1–18 March 2013 – August 2014
Star Wars: The Assassination of Darth Vader one-shot 8-page May 2013
The Star Wars #0–8 September 2013 – May 2014
Star Wars: Ewoks: Shadows of Endor one-shot TPB November 2013
Star Wars: Rebel Heist #1–4 April–July 2014
Star Wars: Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir #1–4 May–August 2014

Return to Marvel (2015–present)

Artist John Cassaday (left) and writer Jason Aaron (right) at a January 2015 signing at Midtown Comics in Manhattan for Star Wars #1, the first Star Wars comic published by Marvel since 1987.

In October 2012, The Walt Disney Company announced that they would acquire Lucasfilm for $4 billion.[32][33] In January 2014, it was announced that in 2015, the Star Wars comics license would return to Marvel Comics,[34] whose parent company, Marvel Entertainment, Disney had purchased in 2009.[35] Meanwhile, with the sequel film The Force Awakens in production, most of the licensed Star Wars novels and comics produced since the originating 1977 film Star Wars were rebranded as Star Wars Legends and declared non-canon to the franchise in April 2014.[36][37][38]

Early reports in May 2014 suggested that Marvel would announce two new ongoing Star Wars comic series at the San Diego Comic-Con.[39][40] In July 2014, Marvel announced three new series at SDCC: Star Wars, Star Wars: Darth Vader, and the limited series Star Wars: Princess Leia.[41][42][43] The initial series, Star Wars, was released in January 2015,[44][45] with Darth Vader debuting in February,[46][47] and Princess Leia in March.[41][48] Several other limited series followed, including Kanan (April 2015–March 2016), Lando (July–October 2015), Shattered Empire (September–October 2015),[49] Chewbacca (October–December 2015), and Obi-Wan & Anakin (January–May 2016), as well as the one-shots Vader Down (November 2015) and C-3PO (April 2016).[50]

The ongoing series Star Wars: Poe Dameron was announced in January 2016.[51] Featuring X-wing fighter pilot Poe Dameron introduced in The Force Awakens, the series debuted on April 6, 2016.[52] A six-issue comic adaptation of The Force Awakens by Chuck Wendig began publication in June 2016.[53] A new and ongoing Marvel Darth Vader comic began in June 2017 from writer Charles Soule and artist Giuseppe Camuncoli.[54]

In mid-2014, Marvel stated that it would publish collected volumes of past Star Wars comics, beginning with Volume 1 of Star Wars: The Original Marvel Years in January 2015,[55] and Volume 1 of Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Empire in April 2015, which reprinted Dark Horse's Star Wars comics.[56][57][58][59]

Marvel
Ongoing Series
Star Wars #1–33, 2 annuals January 2015–present
Star Wars: Darth Vader #1–25, 1 annual February 2015–August 2016
Star Wars: Kanan #1–12 April 2015–March 2016
Star Wars: Poe Dameron #1–16, 1 annual April 2016–present
Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #1–11 December 2016–present
Star Wars: Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith #1-3 June 2017-present
Limited Series and One-Shots
Star Wars: Princess Leia #1–5 March–June 2015
Star Wars: Lando #1–5 July–October 2015
Star Wars: Shattered Empire #1–4 September–October 2015
Star Wars: Chewbacca #1–5 October–December 2015
Star Wars: Vader Down one-shot November 2015
Star Wars: Obi-Wan & Anakin #1–5 January–May 2016
Star Wars: C-3PO one-shot April 2016
Star Wars: The Force Awakens #1–6 June–November 2016
Star Wars: Han Solo #1–5 June–November 2016
Star Wars: Darth Maul #1–4 February 2017–present
Star Wars: Rogue One #1–2 April 2017–present
Star Wars: Screaming Citadel one-shot May 2017
Star Wars: Droids Unplugged one-shot June 2017
Star Wars: Jedi of the Republic — Mace Windu #1 August 2017

IDW Publishing

Star Wars Adventures is an anthology series published by IDW Publishing, set to debut in Fall 2017 and part of the Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi publishing program.[60]

Newspaper strip

A newspaper strip was published between 1979 and 1984, distributed by Los Angeles Times Syndicate and the Watertown Daily Times. The creative teams were revolving, but included Goodwin, Williamson, Russ Manning, Russ Helm, Steve Gerber, and Alfredo Alcala. The strip was based on the storyline and characters established in the original trilogy, but never adapted any of the stories, instead fleshing out the history between the three films.

Collected editions

The comics have been collected into a number of trade paperbacks:

Canon collected editions

Darth Vader (Marvel)

Star Wars (Marvel)

Expanded Universe (non-canon) collected editions

Agent of the Empire

Blood Ties

Classic Star Wars

Clone Wars

Crimson Empire

Dark Empire

Empire

Invasion

Jedi

Knight Errant

The Old Republic

Omnibus

The Star Wars Omnibus line of trade paperbacks is a program for collecting series in larger and less expensive collections. This section includes series that are collected elsewhere.

Republic

Tales

Tales of the Jedi

The Thrawn Trilogy

See also

References

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