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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Books (3)
All booksStar Wars: Doctor Aphra Vol. 1: Aphra
An amoral archaeologist, two homicidal droids, and no supervision whatsoever.
Star Wars: The Rise of Kylo Ren
The night the temple burned, told without the excuses either side offers for it.
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Dossiers (16)
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A protocol droid specialising in etiquette, translation and torture, in that order.
Barash Silvain
The Jedi the Barash Vow is named after — and the sister Porter Engle chose.
Black Krrsantan
A black-furred Wookiee bounty hunter created to prove that Chewbacca was not the template.
BT-1
An astromech chassis packed with every weapon that would fit, and no protocol restraints at all.
Darth Momin
A Sith who treated atrocity as a medium, and survived four hundred years inside his own mask.
Doctor Aphra
A rogue archaeologist with two homicidal droids and no functioning survival instinct.
Keeve Trennis
The Marvel run’s lead: a Knight who is measurably good and cannot be told so.
Kes Dameron
Fought on the ground at Endor, then chose a farm on Yavin 4 over the rest of the war.
Lumiya
An Imperial agent who infiltrated Rogue Squadron, was shot down by Luke Skywalker, and came back twenty-five years later to take his nephew.
Magna Tolvan
The Imperial officer assigned to catch Doctor Aphra, with the predictable complication.
Ninth Sister
A Jedi Knight broken into an Inquisitor, and undone years later by being reminded of her own name.
Ren
The original Ren — the name is the weapon, and it is inherited by whoever takes it.
Sana Starros
Introduced as Han Solo’s wife, which was a lie, and then given a life of her own.
Shara Bey
Flew at Endor, flew one more mission for Leia after it, and raised the best pilot in the Resistance.
Sskeer
A Jedi Master losing the Force and hiding it, in the best sustained tragedy the era wrote.
Terec and Ceret
Bond-twins sharing one mind across any distance, and the first openly trans non-binary Jedi in canon.
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Comics (72)
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…
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…
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…
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…
Star Wars
The flagship of Marvel’s second licence, set in the gap between the first two films, with the original cast at the centre and a very large budget…
Star Wars: Chewbacca
Stranded on a mining world on his way to a Rebel rendezvous, Chewbacca is talked into freeing a girl’s family from indentured labour by a girl who…
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: Kanan
Caleb Dume was a Jedi Padawan on the day the clones turned. Kanan Jarrus is what was left, and the twelve issues in between are the story neither…
Star Wars: Lando
Lando Calrissian and Lobot steal a luxury yacht to clear a debt, and discover rather too late whose yacht it is.
Star Wars: Princess Leia
In the days after the Battle of Yavin, Leia Organa refuses to be kept safely out of the way and goes looking for the scattered survivors of her…
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: Doctor Aphra
A rogue archaeologist with two homicidal droids and no functioning conscience tries to stay one job ahead of everyone she has betrayed, which by now…
Star Wars: Han Solo
Leia gives Han cover for an extraction mission by entering him in the Dragon Void Run, the galaxy’s most prestigious and most lethal race, which he…
Star Wars: Obi-Wan and Anakin
A distress call strands master and apprentice on a ruined world in the years between The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, while Anakin is…
Star Wars: Poe Dameron
The best pilot in the Resistance and his squadron spend the months before The Force Awakens looking for the man who has the map, one step ahead of…
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Adaptation
The 2015 film adapted across six issues, with material that did not make the theatrical cut.
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: 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.
Star Wars: The Screaming Citadel
Doctor Aphra talks Luke Skywalker into escorting her to a gothic fortress ruled by a queen who wants a very specific kind of guest, on the entirely…
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: Age of Republic
Eight prequel-era one-shots, alternating a hero and a villain each month, each one a single short story about what its subject believes.
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: 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: Age of Rebellion
Eight original-trilogy one-shots, four heroes and four villains, each a single short story that tries to say one true thing about a character…
Star Wars: Age of Resistance
Eight sequel-era one-shots published while The Rise of Skywalker was still unreleased, giving the newest cast the single-issue character studies the…
Star Wars: Allegiance
Down to a handful of survivors after Starkiller Base, General Organa goes to former allies to ask for ships, and finds that old debts have not aged…
Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge
On Batuu, the antiquities dealer Dok-Ondar tells stories about the objects on his shelves, and one of them turns out to involve a job Han Solo and…
Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order – Dark Temple
A Jedi Master and her Padawan are sent to a world where an ancient temple is being excavated by people who should not be excavating it — a prequel…
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: TIE Fighter
Five issues inside Shadow Wing, an elite Imperial TIE squadron in the closing stretch of the Galactic Civil War, told entirely from the cockpit of…
Star Wars
Charles Soule’s fifty-issue run in the gap between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi: a Rebellion in pieces, a Jedi with a severed hand…
Star Wars: Bounty Hunters
Beilert Valance, a cyborg who used to be an Imperial and is now merchandise to everyone he meets, headlines forty-two issues of the ugliest and…
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…
Star Wars: Doctor Aphra
Alyssa Wong’s forty issues of Chelli Lona Aphra: still a rogue archaeologist, still the worst possible person to trust with an artefact, and for the…
Star Wars: Crimson Reign
Qi’ra takes Crimson Dawn out of the shadows and declares war on the Sith, using every criminal syndicate in the galaxy as her weapon and the…
Star Wars: Life Day
Marvel’s Life Day holiday special: four short stories about the Wookiee midwinter festival, by four different teams, under a Phil Noto cover.
Star Wars: The High Republic
Padawans at the Starlight Beacon station in the golden age of the Jedi, in the comics half of a publishing initiative that ran novels, comics and…
Star Wars: The High Republic — Trail of Shadows
A Jedi and a private investigator work a murder case together in the golden age of the Republic, in the only Star Wars comic written as a…
Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters
Boba Fett loses the carbonite slab with Han Solo in it, and every bounty hunter, crime syndicate, Sith Lord and rebel in the galaxy converges on the…
Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters — One-Shots
Four single-issue side stories published inside the War of the Bounty Hunters crossover, each handing a different hunter or crime lord the spotlight…
Star Wars: Han Solo & Chewbacca
Han Solo and Chewbacca before the cantina: a decade of bad jobs, worse partners and one crystal that everybody in the galaxy seems to want.
Star Wars: Hidden Empire
The last act of the Qi’ra trilogy: Crimson Dawn’s war on the Sith reaches its end, and the cost of using the Force as a weapon is collected in full.
Star Wars: Obi-Wan
Obi-Wan Kenobi on Tatooine, keeping a journal: five issues, five artists, five memories from five different points in a life he is no longer allowed…
Star Wars: Revelations (2022)
An anthology one-shot that trails the next year of Marvel’s Star Wars line, published a week after Hidden Empire began.
Star Wars: The Halcyon Legacy
A history of one starcruiser told in five flashbacks — the tie-in comic to Walt Disney World’s Galactic Starcruiser hotel, and rather better than it…
Star Wars: The High Republic — Eye of the Storm
Two issues on the making of Marchion Ro: how the Eye of the Nihil inherited a marauder fleet and turned it into the thing that broke the Jedi.
Star Wars: The High Republic — The Blade
Porter Engle, the Blade of Bardotta, before he was old: four issues about a Jedi whose gift is killing and who has spent a lifetime trying to make…
Star Wars: The High Republic (Phase II)
Phase II winds the clock back a hundred and fifty years to a Jedi Order that has not yet learned the lessons Phase I will teach it, and to the Path…
Star Wars: Visions
Marvel’s tie-in one-shots to the Visions animated anthology, each written and drawn by the Japanese creator behind the episode it extends.
Star Wars: Yoda
Three writers, three eras, one Jedi Master: ten issues that take Yoda from the height of the High Republic to the eve of the Clone Wars and finally…
Star Wars: Dark Droids
Something ancient and hungry starts jumping between droids, and every mechanical thing in the galaxy — astromech, protocol droid, prosthetic limb,…
Star Wars: Dark Droids — D-Squad
A scratch squad of droids — the ones nobody would miss — is assembled to fight the thing that is eating droids, on the reasonable grounds that they…
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (40th Anniversary One-Shots)
Six single-issue stories published across 2023 for the fortieth anniversary of Return of the Jedi, each taking a corner of the film — Jabba’s…
Star Wars: Revelations (2023)
The second Revelations anthology: five short stories, each a trailer for a 2024 series, including the openings of Jango Fett and Mace Windu.
Star Wars: Sana Starros
Sana Starros goes home, which for a smuggler with a large and extremely opinionated family is considerably more dangerous than the job that sent her…
Star Wars: The High Republic — Shadows of Starlight
Four single-issue snapshots of the galaxy in the year after the fall of Starlight Beacon, each following a different Jedi through the same…
Star Wars: The High Republic (Phase III)
Phase III returns to the immediate aftermath of Phase I: the Nihil’s Stormwall is up, the Republic is cut in half, and the Jedi inside it are hunted.
Star Wars: Ahsoka
An eight-issue tie-in to the Disney+ series, set around 9 ABY, following Ahsoka Tano in the years the New Republic thought the war was over.
Star Wars: Battle of Jakku — Insurgency Rising
The first four chapters of Marvel’s twelve-issue Battle of Jakku trilogy: the Empire after Endor, refusing to accept that it has lost.
Star Wars: Battle of Jakku — Last Stand
Chapters IX to XII: the battle itself, on a desert world that will still be full of wreckage thirty years later when a scavenger called Rey walks…
Star Wars: Battle of Jakku — Republic Under Siege
Chapters V to VIII: the young New Republic discovers that winning a war and running a government are different jobs.
Star Wars: Jango Fett
Jango Fett, a decade before Kamino, takes a job that puts him between a treaty, a mystery and Aurra Sing.
Star Wars: Mace Windu
A young Mace Windu, not yet on the Council, escorts a scientist and a discovery that could tip the balance of the galaxy, and discovers how far he…
Star Wars: The Acolyte — Kelnacca
The only comic tie-in to the Disney+ series The Acolyte: a twenty-seven page one-shot on the history of the Wookiee Jedi Master Kelnacca.
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 25th Anniversary Special
A single-issue anniversary special for The Phantom Menace, published twenty-five years to the month after the film opened.
Star Wars: Legacy of Vader
Kylo Ren between The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker: Supreme Leader of the First Order, haunted by a grandfather he never met, and increasingly…
Star Wars: The High Republic — Fear of the Jedi
The last Marvel High Republic miniseries: the Jedi behind the Stormwall have become something the people they protect are frightened of, and the…
Star Wars: The High Republic — The Finale
Subtitled “The Beacon”: the single issue that closes the whole High Republic publishing initiative, five years and three phases after it began.
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Dispatches (1)
All dispatchesBefore Heir to the Empire: the expanded universe nobody talks about
Marvel comics, Corporate Sector heists, three Lando novels and a radio drama — what Star Wars publishing looked like from 1977 to 1990.
