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
The Empire Strikes Back Weekly
The second title in Marvel UK’s single unbroken run of Star Wars weeklies, renamed to carry the Empire Strikes Back adaptation and continuing Star Wars Weekly’s numbering.
Twenty-two weekly issues, 118 to 139, from 29 May to 22 October 1980. It reprinted Marvel’s Empire Strikes Back adaptation in black and white and spread across more instalments than the American issues, padded out with other Marvel space strips.
Every issue
Issue list
No individual issues have been catalogued for this series yet. The series record is verified; the issue-level rows are still being entered.
Issue-level records for this run are still being entered. Nothing is guessed in the meantime.
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.
