Star Wars
The first Star Wars comic: a six-issue adaptation of the 1977 film that immediately became an ongoing, and then spent nine years inventing what a…
Topic
1980s
15 entries filed under this topic across the library, the dossiers and the dispatches.
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Comics (15)
All comicsStar Wars Weekly
The British weekly that reprinted the American run in black and white and, when it ran out of material, commissioned original UK strips to fill the…
Star Wars (newspaper strip)
Twenty-seven serialised storylines in daily and Sunday newspaper strips, most of them set between the first two films, and for four years the most…
Marvel Special Edition Featuring Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
A single treasury-sized volume carrying the complete Empire Strikes Back adaptation, published as issue 2 because there never was an issue 1.
Marvel Super Special (Star Wars issues)
Marvel’s magazine-format showcase carried two Star Wars issues: the complete Empire Strikes Back adaptation in 1980 and the complete Return of the…
The Empire Strikes Back Monthly
The monthly incarnation of Marvel UK’s Star Wars comic, and the strangest thing ever printed under the licence: seven short original strips, most of…
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…
Marvel Movie Showcase Featuring Star Wars
A two-issue standard-format reprint of the 1977 film adaptation, put out five years later for readers who had missed it the first time.
Star Wars Monthly
The fourth title in Marvel UK’s continuous run, carrying the last original British strip and, from issue 167, Marvel’s Raiders of the Lost Ark…
Return of the Jedi Weekly
The fifth and last incarnation of Marvel UK’s Star Wars comic, and the only one to reset the numbering — 155 weekly issues in full colour.
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
The third film adaptation, and the only one Marvel published as a standalone limited series rather than inside the monthly — Archie Goodwin and Al…
Ewoks
Marvel’s children’s imprint spun the animated Ewoks series into a fourteen-issue comic set on the forest moon of Endor, years before the Battle of…
Droids
C-3PO and R2-D2 as the leads, drifting between owners in the years before the first film, adapted from the animated series for Marvel’s Star Comics…
Ewoks Monthly
The last Marvel UK Star Wars title: ten monthly issues reprinting the American Star Comics Ewoks series, out of order and unfinished.
Star Wars 3-D
Three stereoscopic issues published for the tenth anniversary of the first film, printed in red-and-blue anaglyph 3-D and packaged with glasses.
