Star Wars: Dark Empire
Six years after Endor the Empire is still fighting, Luke Skywalker deliberately turns to the dark side to destroy it from inside, and the Emperor is…
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1990s
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All comicsClassic Star Wars
Dark Horse recolours, re-edits and reprints the Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson daily newspaper strip as a twenty-issue comic, with new panels and…
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
The line of linked miniseries that moved Star Wars thousands of years into its own past and invented the Old Republic as a setting rather than a…
Classic Star Wars: A New Hope
Marvel’s 1977 film adaptation, repackaged by Dark Horse as two oversized issues with new painted covers.
Classic Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
The 1983 Marvel adaptation of Return of the Jedi, reissued in two parts.
Classic Star Wars: The Early Adventures
The Russ Manning newspaper strips of 1979 and 1980, coloured and reformatted — the earliest post-A New Hope adventures anyone published, back when…
Classic Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Archie Goodwin, Al Williamson and Carlos Garzón’s 1980 adaptation of The Empire Strikes Back, reissued as two oversized issues.
Star Wars: Dark Empire II
The reborn Emperor launches Operation Shadow Hand against the New Republic, Luke Skywalker goes looking for surviving Jedi, and Han and Leia try to…
Star Wars: Droids
R2-D2 and C-3PO as the leads, drifting between owners in the Kalarba system in the years before the first film. Dark Horse’s first attempt at the…
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith
Two Jedi go looking for the Sith for the best of reasons. Exar Kun finds them on Onderon and Korriban and is remade; Ulic Qel-Droma infiltrates the…
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – The Freedon Nadd Uprising
On Onderon, a cult loyal to the long-dead Dark Lord Freedon Nadd seizes his sarcophagus, and the Jedi discover that the Sith are not a historical…
Classic Star Wars: The Vandelhelm Mission
A single-issue Dark Horse reprint of Marvel’s Star Wars #98 — "Supply and Demand", in which Han Solo escorts two passengers to a world whose…
Star Wars: Boba Fett
Dark Horse’s Boba Fett line: a trilogy of blackly comic bounty jobs by John Wagner and Cam Kennedy, plus two shorter pieces reprinted from magazines.
Star Wars: Droids (1995)
A second Droids series, running monthly through 1995, taking the pair from the Kalarba system into open opposition to the Empire.
Star Wars: Empire’s End
Two issues to finish the Dark Empire trilogy: Palpatine makes one last attempt at immortality by seizing the body of Han and Leia’s infant son, and…
Star Wars: Heir to the Empire
The comics adaptation of Timothy Zahn’s 1991 novel — Grand Admiral Thrawn’s campaign against the young New Republic, and Mara Jade’s standing order…
Star Wars: Jabba the Hutt
Four one-shots in which Jabba is the protagonist and the joke is that he is very good at his job: rival gangsters, a hungry princess, a dynastic…
Star Wars: River of Chaos
An Imperial officer posted to a mining world starts to notice what her own side is doing there, in a four-issue story built around an ordinary…
Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind’s Eye
The comics adaptation of Alan Dean Foster’s 1978 novel — Luke and Leia stranded on a swamp world hunting a Force-amplifying crystal, written before…
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – The Sith War
Exar Kun and Ulic Qel-Droma take their war to the Republic. It ends with a Jedi library world scorched, a fratricide, and a Dark Lord who cannot be…
Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron
Wedge Antilles’ squadron between Endor and the liberation of Coruscant: thirty-five issues of fighter pilots doing unglamorous work, the first…
Classic Star Wars: Devilworlds
Two issues collecting the short, strange Star Wars stories Alan Moore and company wrote for Marvel UK at the start of the 1980s, recoloured and…
Star Wars: Battle of the Bounty Hunters
Boba Fett against IG-88 over the carbonite-frozen Han Solo, published as a pop-up book rather than a comic.
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
The comics leg of the 1996 Shadows of the Empire multimedia project: Prince Xizor of Black Sun moves against Luke Skywalker while Vader hunts him…
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith
Two hyperspace prospectors stumble out of the Republic and into the Sith Empire, which has spent two thousand years assuming it was alone in the…
Classic Star Wars: Han Solo at Stars’ End
The 1980–81 newspaper strip adaptation of Brian Daley’s first Han Solo novel, collected into three comic-book issues.
Star Wars: A New Hope – The Special Edition
A brand-new comics adaptation of the 1997 Special Edition cut of the first film, timed to its theatrical re-release.
Star Wars: Crimson Empire
An exiled member of the Emperor’s Royal Guard tracks down the guardsman who let Palpatine die, in a revenge story that ends with a twelve-page duel.
Star Wars: Dark Force Rising
The middle book of Zahn’s trilogy: the hunt for the lost Katana fleet, Thrawn’s clone cylinders, and a Jedi Master who has spent decades going…
Star Wars: Droids: The Protocol Offensive
C-3PO gets to negotiate a peace treaty, in a one-shot co-written by the actor who plays him.
Star Wars: Shadow Stalker
A one-shot expanding on Jix, the Imperial agent introduced in the Shadows of the Empire comic.
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – The Fall of the Sith Empire
Naga Sadow invades the Republic, loses, and burns his own empire behind him — the war that supposedly ended the Sith and demonstrably did not.
Star Wars: The Last Command
The end of the Thrawn trilogy, and the best-drawn of the three adaptations: the assault on Coruscant, the cloning caves of Wayland, and a Grand…
Star Wars Handbook
Three companion volumes — character and hardware guides to X-Wing Rogue Squadron, Crimson Empire and Dark Empire, assembled from the comics…
Star Wars Manga: A New Hope
Hisao Tamaki redraws the 1977 film as shonen manga — same screenplay, entirely different visual grammar — in four fat black-and-white volumes.
Star Wars Special: The Constancia Affair
A twelve-page giveaway comic that reprinted the very first Star Wars newspaper storyline — a Sunday-only Russ Manning serial that had never been…
Star Wars: Crimson Empire II: Council of Blood
Kir Kanos, still the last loyal Royal Guardsman, is hired to protect the Imperial Interim Council — a body of warlords whose members keep being…
Star Wars: Jedi Academy: Leviathan
Four of Luke Skywalker’s students — Streen, Kyp Durron, Dorsk 82 and Kirana Ti — are sent to Corbos and find something old enough to have eaten a…
Star Wars: Mara Jade – By the Emperor’s Hand
Mara Jade’s last mission as the Emperor’s Hand, and what happens to an assassin whose employer dies mid-assignment and leaves a final order ringing…
Star Wars: Republic
Dark Horse’s prequel-era flagship: eighty-three issues that begin a year before The Phantom Menace, become the main Clone Wars comic at issue #49,…
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire: Evolution
Guri, Prince Xizor’s human-replica droid assassin, goes looking for the man who can rewrite her programming so she can stop being what she was built…
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – Redemption
Ulic Qel-Droma, cut off from the Force and living as a hermit, is found by the son of the man he killed. The last Tales of the Jedi miniseries and…
Star Wars: The Jabba Tape
Jabba is dead and his surviving retainers are fighting over the estate, which turns out to include a recording nobody wants released.
Boba Fett: Enemy of the Empire
Darth Vader hires Boba Fett, then decides the bounty hunter knows too much — a chase story in which both hunters are the same person’s problem.
Star Wars Manga: Return of the Jedi
Shin-ichi Hiromoto’s adaptation of the 1983 film, and the most stylised of the four Dark Horse manga — closer to caricature than to likeness.
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.
Star Wars Manga: The Phantom Menace
Kia Asamiya — Silent Möbius, Batman: Child of Dreams — adapts the 1999 film in two volumes, and is the only one of the four manga artists to draw…
Star Wars Tales
A quarterly sixty-four-page anthology where the licence was allowed to be strange: gag strips, prestige short stories, and a standing policy that…
Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace
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.
Star Wars: Episode I one-shots
Four character one-shots retelling The Phantom Menace from a single point of view apiece — Anakin, Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon and Amidala — with a…
Star Wars: The Bounty Hunters
Three 1999 one-shots, each following a different bounty hunter: Aurra Sing before the prequels, Dengar in the original-trilogy years, and Kir Kanos…
Star Wars: Union
Luke Skywalker marries Mara Jade, and half the galaxy treats the wedding as an opportunity — for reconciliation, for politics, or for an…
Star Wars: Vader’s Quest
Darth Vader learns the name of the pilot who destroyed the Death Star and goes looking for him, in the weeks before he learns anything else about him.
