Original generated cover art — not a reproduction of any published cover
The official four-issue adaptation of the first prequel, published weekly across May 1999 so that the last part landed a week after the film opened.
Written by Henry Gilroy, pencilled by Rodolfo Damaggio and inked by Al Williamson — the artist of Marvel’s Empire Strikes Back adaptation nineteen years earlier — with covers by Hugh Fleming. Collected as a hardcover in December 1999.
This run is in the catalogue but has not been written up. Everything above is verified publication data; there is no opinion here yet, and a placeholder review would be worse than none.
The arc breakdown and issue list below are the useful part for now.
Structure
How the run divides, and where a reader can get on and off.
#1–4
The Phantom Menace
Each issue covers roughly half an hour of the film.
Every issue
Number, title, cover date and credits. A dash means the field is not verified — not that it is empty.
| # | Title | Cover date | Writer | Artist | Cover artist | Arc | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | — | May 1999 | Henry Gilroy | Rodolfo Damaggio | Hugh Fleming | The Phantom Menace | |
| 2 | — | May 1999 | Henry Gilroy | Rodolfo Damaggio | Hugh Fleming | The Phantom Menace | |
| 3 | — | May 1999 | Henry Gilroy | Rodolfo Damaggio | Hugh Fleming | The Phantom Menace | |
| 4 | — | May 1999 | Henry Gilroy | Rodolfo Damaggio | Hugh Fleming | The Phantom Menace |
In print
Trades, omnibuses and Epic Collections. ISBNs appear only where verified.
| Edition | Format | Publisher | Year | Collects | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace | hardcover | Dark Horse Comics | 1999 | Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace #1-4 | 9781569717318 |
Dossiers
Encyclopedia entries for the figures this run develops.
The Jedi who kept being right in ways the Council found inconvenient.
The Order’s most dutiful son, which is exactly the problem the books keep poking at.
Elected at fourteen, obsolete by thirty — the Republic’s conscience, and its most cutting critic.
Killed off in his first film, and rebuilt by twenty-five years of books and television into something better.
