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The surgical droid who puts Luke back together twice, on Hoth and after Bespin.
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Dossiers (40)
All dossiers4-LOM
A protocol droid whose logic glitched its way out of its own programming and into the bounty trade.
Admiral Motti
Told Darth Vader that his religion was a superstition, and got roughly the response you would expect.
Admiral Ozzel
Came out of lightspeed too close to the system, and became the object lesson that made Piett an admiral.
Admiral Piett
Promoted twice by surviving the man in front of him, and killed by an A-wing.
Beru Whitesun Lars
Luke's mother in every sense the films have room to show.
Bib Fortuna
Forty years at the Hutt’s ear, one year on the Hutt’s throne, and about four seconds after that.
Biggs Darklighter
Luke’s best friend, cut from the film, partly restored in 1997, and dead in ninety seconds either way.
Boba Fett
Four lines of dialogue and a helmet, and somehow the most merchandised man in the galaxy.
Bossk
One of the six hunters on the Executor’s bridge, and the only one with a grudge that predates the war.
C-3PO
Built by a nine-year-old slave on Tatooine and present, terrified, at every turning point for the next seventy years.
Captain Needa
Apologised to Darth Vader in person. It went as well as apologising to Darth Vader in person ever goes.
Chewbacca
Fifty years of screen time without a single line of translated dialogue, and nobody has ever misread him.
Dengar
Firepower over finesse, a head full of bandages, and the longest continuous career of anyone in the line-up.
Doctor Cornelius Evazan
A promising surgeon who became a butcher, and announced his own rap sheet to a farm boy in a bar.
EV-9D9
The droid overseer in Jabba’s basement, running a torture chamber for machines.
Garven Dreis
Red Leader at Yavin, and the pilot who took the first shot at the exhaust port.
General Bast
Told Tarkin the Death Star had a weakness, and was told to be quiet.
General Dodonna
He read the stolen plans, found the exhaust port, and gave the briefing every Star Wars mission scene has copied since.
General Rieekan
The officer who called the evacuation of Hoth, and the reason anyone got off it.
General Tagge
The only officer in the room who was right about the Rebellion, and the comics gave him forty years of credit for it.
General Veers
The one Imperial officer in the trilogy who is simply good at his job.
Greedo
Two minutes of screen time and thirty years of argument about who shot first.
IG-88
A chrome assassin droid in the bounty hunter line-up, with about four seconds of film and forty years of backstory.
Jabba the Hutt
The debt at the centre of the original trilogy, sitting in a palace on a desert world.
Jek Tono Porkins
Red Six, four lines of dialogue, and one of the most stubbornly beloved bit parts in the franchise.
Jon “Dutch” Vander
Gold Leader, flying the slowest craft in the attack down the longest corridor in the galaxy.
Lando Calrissian
A con man who became an administrator, betrayed his friends, and then spent the rest of his life paying it back.
Max Rebo
Signed his band to Jabba the Hutt for unlimited food and no money, which he considered a good deal.
Moff Jerjerrod
An architect running the largest construction project in history, behind schedule, with Darth Vader in the doorway.
Owen Lars
The man who kept Luke on the farm, and was right to try.
Ponda Baba
Picked a fight in the Mos Eisley cantina and lost an arm inside four seconds.
R2-D2
The most consequential character in Star Wars, and the only one who never explains himself.
R5-D4
The droid Luke almost bought. Its motivator blows, and the galaxy changes.
Salacious Crumb
The laugh in Jabba’s throne room, tolerated because the boss finds him funny.
Sy Snootles
Lead vocalist in Jabba’s house band, and in The Clone Wars a rather more dangerous proposition.
Wicket W. Warrick
Found Leia in the forest and, by doing so, delivered the ground army that wins the war.
Wullf Yularen
A background extra in 1977 who was retroactively given twenty years of history, and became the face of the Imperial Security Bureau.
Zev Senesca
The pilot who found Luke and Han alive on the Hoth ice, and was dead by the end of the same battle.
Zuckuss
A findsman who tracks quarry by religious ritual, which is not a metaphor and does not always work.
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Comics (21)
All comicsStar 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…
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…
Classic 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…
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…
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 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: Empire
The original-trilogy companion to Republic: forty issues told largely from the Imperial side of the line, where the interesting question is not who…
Star Wars: Rebellion
Empire’s replacement, and a tighter book: an Imperial officer and a Rebel childhood friend on opposite sides of the same war, plus the Vector…
Star Wars Adventures
Six digest-sized all-ages graphic novels, each giving one of the original-trilogy leads a self-contained adventure.
Star Wars
Brian Wood’s ongoing, set in the months after A New Hope and written as though the Empire is a competent military organisation and the Rebellion is…
Star Wars: Rebel Heist
Four issues, four new characters, each narrating an encounter with Han, Leia, Luke or Chewbacca — and each finding the legend hard to work with.
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: 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: 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: 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
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…
