Not yet reviewed
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.
Original generated cover art — not a reproduction of any published cover
Star Wars Manga: The Empire Strikes Back
Toshiki Kudo’s manga adaptation of the 1980 film, adapted from the Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan screenplay.
Four 92-page volumes from Dark Horse between January and April 1999, illustrated by Toshiki Kudo and edited by David Land, with covers by Adam Warren and Joseph Wight.
Every issue
Issue list — 4 of 4 catalogued
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 | — | January 27, 1999 | George Lucas | Toshiki Kudo | Adam Warren, Joseph Wight | — | Volume 1 of the 92-page manga adaptation. |
| 2 | — | February 24, 1999 | George Lucas | Toshiki Kudo | Adam Warren, Joseph Wight | — | Volume 2 of the 92-page manga adaptation. |
| 3 | — | March 31, 1999 | George Lucas | Toshiki Kudo | Adam Warren, Joseph Wight | — | Volume 3 of the 92-page manga adaptation. |
| 4 | — | April 28, 1999 | George Lucas | Toshiki Kudo | Adam Warren, Joseph Wight | — | Volume 4 of the 92-page manga adaptation. |
In print
Collected editions
No collected edition of this run has been catalogued here yet.
Dossiers
Who is in it
Encyclopedia entries for the figures this run develops.
Luke Skywalker
The farm boy the whole shelf is built around — and the character the two continuities disagree about most.
Darth Vader
Two characters in one suit, and the publishing programme has spent fifty years arguing about the seam.
