Star Wars (Marvel)

Star Wars (Marvel)
Attribution
Writer(s)	Various
Penciller(s)	Various
Inker(s)	Various
Letterer(s)	Various
Colorist(s)	Various
Cover artist(s)	Various
Editor(s)	Various
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Schedule	Monthly (3 annual issues)
Format	Completed
Issues	114
General information
Era	Rebellion era
Timeline	0 BBY-4 ABY

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"Long ago in a galaxy far, far away... there exists a state of cosmic civil war. A brave alliance of underground freedom fighters has challenged the tyranny and oppression of the awesome Galactic Empire. This is their story!"

―Introduction to many issues of Marvel's Star Wars

The Marvel Star Wars series of comic books was the first ever comic series created for the saga. It spanned 107 issues, with three special Annual issues. The series was relatively long-running, lasting from 1977 to 1986. It was published by Marvel Comics. The series was such a smash hit for Marvel in an otherwise dismal sales year that many who worked at Marvel in 1977 consider it to have singlehandedly saved them from financial ruin.

Issues 1-6 adapted the events of A New Hope and Issues 39-44 adapted The Empire Strikes Back, however the Return of the Jedi adaptation was published as a separate four issue mini-series outside of the regular series.

Marvel Illustrated Books Star Wars 1, Marvel Illustrated Books Star Wars 2 as well as Classic Star Wars: Devilworlds 1 & 2 included additional stories published as part of the Star Wars (Marvel UK) series, which due to running weekly, included additional stories. The only story that hasn't been reprinted in the US is Death Masque

Many issues of the regular series included a letter column titled Star Words.

[edit] Canonicity

"We have what we call Canon, which is the screenplays, novelizations, and other core works that are directly tied into the continuity, and then there are a lot of marginal things, like the old Marvel Comics series, that we don't really try to work into the continuity when we're planning new projects."

―Allen Kausch from 1996, referring to the Shadows of the Empire multimedia project^[src]

According to Leland Chee, all of the Marvel Comics are considered S-Canon unless referenced by a C-Canon source, in which case that particular comic becomes C-Canon.[1]. Since the vast majority of Marvel storylines have been and continue to be referenced in C-canon, it can be argued that the Marvel series is at this point C-canon.

[edit] Issues

[edit] Annual Issues

[edit] Return of the Jedi Movie Adaptation Mini-series

[edit] Collections

[edit] A New Hope

[edit] The Empire Strikes Back

[edit] Return of the Jedi

[edit] Marvel Illustrated Books

[edit] Classic Star Wars

The Vandelhelm Mission

[edit] A Long Time Ago...

[edit] Devilworlds

[edit] External links

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