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All comicsMarvel Special Edition Featuring Star Wars
Treasury-sized reprints of the six-issue film adaptation, printed at roughly twice comic-book size — the largest Star Wars comics ever sold on a…
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…
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: 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…
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: 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: 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: 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 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 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: Episode II — Attack of the Clones
The four-issue comics adaptation of the 2002 film, shipped weekly across the fortnight before it opened.
Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith
The four-issue adaptation of the 2005 film, drawn by Doug Wheatley and released weekly in the month before the premiere.
The Star Wars
George Lucas’s 1974 rough-draft screenplay, adapted straight: General Luke Skywalker, a green-skinned Han Solo, Annikin Starkiller, and a Jedi-Bendu…
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Adaptation
The 2015 film adapted across six issues, with material that did not make the theatrical cut.
Star Wars: Rogue One Adaptation
Rogue One adapted across six issues, with room for the interior lives the film had to move too fast to give its squad.
Solo: A Star Wars Story Adaptation
The 2018 film adapted across seven issues — the longest of Marvel’s modern film adaptations, with room for scenes the theatrical cut lost.
Star Wars Lost Stars
Yusaku Komiyama’s manga of Claudia Gray’s novel: two friends from the same planet who join the Imperial academy together and end up on opposite…
Star Wars: The Last Jedi Adaptation
The 2017 film adapted across six issues, with a looser, more expressionist visual approach than any other Marvel Star Wars adaptation of the period.
Star Wars Leia, Princess of Alderaan
Haruichi adapts Claudia Gray’s novel about a sixteen-year-old Leia discovering what her adoptive parents have been doing with the family name.
Star Wars Rebels
Akira Aoki’s manga adaptation of the first season of Star Wars Rebels, which began life as a Japanese webcomic published on LINE.
The Legends of Luke Skywalker—The Manga
Four cartoonists adapt four of the tall tales from Ken Liu’s novel, in which people who may never have met Luke Skywalker explain exactly what he is…
Star Wars: The Mandalorian: The Manga
Yusuke Osawa’s chapter-for-chapter manga adaptation of the first season of The Mandalorian, serialised in Square Enix’s Big Gangan and collected by…
Star Wars: Thrawn: The Manga
A manga adaptation of Timothy Zahn’s 2017 novel Thrawn, adapted by Man Tsang.
