Star Wars: Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
The first weeks inside the suit, written as a man discovering what he agreed to.
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darth vader
25 entries filed under this topic across the library, the dossiers and the dispatches.
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- 18comics
- 1dossiers
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Books (6)
All booksThrawn: Alliances
Two timelines, one grudging partnership, and Darth Vader in a very bad mood.
Star Wars: Lords of the Sith
Palpatine and Vader, stranded, hunted, and entirely too pleased about it.
Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back
Better than its reputation, and the first prose to state the thing out loud.
Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi
The one with the extra Anakin, and a surprisingly interior Vader.
Star Wars: Darth Vader Vol. 1: Vader
Vader in disgrace, running his own black operation, with a rogue archaeologist for company.
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Dossiers (1)
All dossiersDarth Momin
A Sith who treated atrocity as a medium, and survived four hundred years inside his own mask.
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Comics (18)
All comicsBoba 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: 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.
Star Wars: Purge
Darth Vader against a gathering of surviving Jedi, months after Order 66, drawn as a slaughter rather than a duel.
Star Wars: Purge — Seconds to Die
A one-shot in Dark Horse’s Purge line: Sha Koon, niece of Plo Koon, refuses to hide from the Jedi purge.
Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Lost Command
The first of four Dark Horse miniseries with Darth Vader’s name on the cover: a search-and-rescue mission he does not want, close enough to Mustafar…
Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison
A coup inside the first year of the Empire, a cadet who has to guard the Emperor, and a secret prison full of people the Republic never admitted…
Star Wars: Purge — The Tyrant’s Fist
The final Purge story, split across two issues: Darth Vader on an occupied world and the Jedi who does not get away.
Star Wars: Dark Times — A Spark Remains
The last Dark Times story: the surviving Jedi stop hiding and go after Darth Vader, which goes about as well as it can.
Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Cry of Shadows
The last of Dark Horse’s Vader miniseries, narrated by a clone trooper who worshipped the Jedi and then watched what replaced them.
Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Ninth Assassin
A wealthy man loses a son to the Empire and spends his fortune hiring killers to reach Darth Vader, one at a time.
Star Wars: Darth Vader
Darth Vader after the Death Star: demoted, distrusted by his own Emperor, and quietly assembling the resources to find out who fired the shot that…
Star Wars: Vader Down
Darth Vader finds Luke Skywalker, crashes alone into the middle of an entire Rebel base, and the Rebellion discovers that this is their problem…
Star Wars: Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith
The years immediately after Revenge of the Sith, in which a newly armoured Anakin Skywalker has to murder a Jedi to obtain a lightsaber and then…
Star Wars Adventures: Tales from Vader's Castle
A Halloween anthology for young readers, in which a Rebel crew stranded on Mustafar tell each other ghost stories and a different guest artist draws…
Star Wars: Shadow of Vader
A five-issue anthology about Darth Vader’s effect on ordinary lives, announced at New York Comic Con in October 2018 and cancelled without a single…
Star Wars Adventures: Return to Vader's Castle
The second October miniseries, with Vader’s servant Vaneé as the storyteller and titles — "Night of the Lava Zombies", "Vault of the Living Brains"…
Star Wars: Target Vader
A criminal syndicate hires an assembled team of bounty hunters to kill Darth Vader, which is exactly as good an idea as it sounds.
Star Wars: Darth Vader
Greg Pak’s fifty issues of Darth Vader answering the only question the character has left after Bespin: what happens to a man built entirely out of…
