Randy Stradley is a writer and Vice President of Publishing for Dark Horse Comics. He is also writing under names Mick Harrison and Welles Hartley.^[1]

Stradley's work on issue 86 of Marvel's Star Wars series in 1984 was his very first work in the comics industry. He later went to become VP and business partner with Mike Richardson, who founded Dark Horse comics in the 1980s to focus on movie licensed comics. The company acquired the license for Star Wars comics in the early 1990s, a few years after the end of the Marvel run and in the build-up to the prequels, relaunching the Star Wars line with such titles as Classic Star Wars (reprinting the original Star Wars newspaper strips), Dark Empire, Tales of the Jedi, Dark Empire II, etc. Stradley and Richardson would team-up to write the Crimson Empire miniseries, focusing on the Emperor's Royal Guard.

Editing of Dark Horse's Star Wars line passed through a number of hands before Stradley assumed the role of Star Wars Senior Editor in 2002, as Dark Horse reorganized its Star Wars line after the release of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. He has held the position since.

Randy Stradley was the first to think up the idea of Chewbacca dying in the New Jedi Order series.^[2]

Contents 1 Star Wars bibliography 1.1 Marvel Star Wars 1.2 Crimson Empire (with Mike Richardson) 1.3 Dark Times 1.4 Empire 1.5 Jedi Council 1.6 Republic 1.7 Star Wars Tales 1.8 The Bounty Hunters 1.9 Other 2 Notes and references 3 External links 3.1 In other languages

Star Wars bibliographyEdit

Marvel Star WarsEdit

• Star Wars 86: The Alderaan Factor (1984)

Crimson Empire (with Mike Richardson)Edit

• Crimson Empire (1997 - 1998)
• Crimson Empire II: Council of Blood (1998 - 1999)
• Crimson Empire III: Empire Lost (2011 - 2012)

Dark TimesEdit

• Star Wars: Dark Times 1: The Path to Nowhere, Part 1 (as "Welles Hartley" and "Mick Harrison")
• Star Wars: Dark Times 2: The Path to Nowhere, Part 2 (as "Welles Hartley" and "Mick Harrison")
• Star Wars: Dark Times 3: The Path to Nowhere, Part 3 (as "Welles Hartley" and "Mick Harrison")
• Star Wars: Dark Times 4: The Path to Nowhere, Part 4 (as "Welles Hartley" and "Mick Harrison")
• Star Wars: Dark Times 5: The Path to Nowhere, Part 5 (as "Welles Hartley" and "Mick Harrison")
• Star Wars: Dark Times 6: Parallels, Part 1 (as "Mick Harrison")
• Star Wars: Dark Times 7: Parallels, Part 2 (as "Mick Harrison")
• Star Wars: Dark Times 8: Parallels, Part 3 (as "Mick Harrison")
• Star Wars: Dark Times 9: Parallels, Part 4 (as "Mick Harrison")
• Star Wars: Dark Times 10: Parallels, Part 5 (as "Mick Harrison")
• Star Wars: Dark Times 11: Vector, Part 5 (as "Mick Harrison")
• Star Wars: Dark Times 12: Vector, Part 6 (as "Mick Harrison")
• Star Wars: Dark Times 13: Blue Harvest, Part 1 (as "Mick Harrison")
• Star Wars: Dark Times 14: Blue Harvest, Part 2 (as "Mick Harrison")
• Star Wars: Dark Times 15: Blue Harvest, Part 3 (as "Mick Harrison")
• Star Wars: Dark Times 16: Blue Harvest, Part 4 (as "Mick Harrison")
• Star Wars: Dark Times 17: Blue Harvest, Part 5 (as "Mick Harrison")

EmpireEdit

• Star Wars: Empire 5: Princess... Warrior, Part 1 (2003)
• Star Wars: Empire 6: Princess... Warrior, Part 2 (2003)
• Star Wars: Empire 16: To the Last Man, Part 1 (as "Welles Hartley")
• Star Wars: Empire 17: To the Last Man, Part 2 (as "Welles Hartley")
• Star Wars: Empire 18: To the Last Man, Part 3 (as "Welles Hartley")
• Star Wars: Empire 22: Alone Together (as "Welles Hartley")
• Star Wars: Empire 36: The Wrong Side of the War, Part 1 (as "Welles Hartley")
• Star Wars: Empire 37: The Wrong Side of the War, Part 2 (as "Welles Hartley")
• Star Wars: Empire 38: The Wrong Side of the War, Part 3 (as "Welles Hartley")
• Star Wars: Empire 39: The Wrong Side of the War, Part 4 (as "Welles Hartley")
• Star Wars: Empire 40: The Wrong Side of the War, Part 5 (as "Welles Hartley")

Jedi CouncilEdit

• Jedi Council: Acts of War 1
• Jedi Council: Acts of War 2
• Jedi Council: Acts of War 3
• Jedi Council: Acts of War 4

RepublicEdit

• Star Wars: Republic 67: Forever Young (2004)
• Star Wars: Republic 79: Into the Unknown, Part 1 (as "Welles Hartley")
• Star Wars: Republic 80: Into the Unknown, Part 2 (as "Welles Hartley")

Star Wars TalesEdit

• Jedi Chef in Star Wars Tales 7 (2001)

The Bounty HuntersEdit

• The Bounty Hunters: Kenix Kil (1999)

OtherEdit

• Clone Wars Adventures (2004-2007)
•  "Hide in Plain Sight" - Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures Volume 2 (as "Welles Hartley")
• Hard Currency
• Routine Valor (2006)
• Star Wars: Panel to Panel
• Star Wars: Panel to Panel Volume 2: Expanding the Universe
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Innocents of Ryloth" (co-writer)

Notes and referencesEdit

External linksEdit

• Randy Stradley on MySpace
•  The Circle is Now Complete: Classic Marvel Talents on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
• An Interview With Dark Horse's Randy Stradley