The art is amazing in some places, and unfortunately distracting in others. The first four rows are the star wars price variants collectors do widely know about and are listed in overstreet. A star wars title also scored the 10thbest selling comic book of the decade with the debut issue of star wars. These would all be great starter comics for kids that are huge star wars fans just starting out on their comic collections. We spoke about the dark horse 100 variant program back in november but we missed this book on our list. Comic book galaxy explores marvels star wars comic book releases and provides a discussion point on the culture and climate of the star wars comic book universe for comic book fans, wednesday is one thing and one thing only. The marvel star wars series of comic books was the first ever comic series. Along with the release of the movie star wars in 1977, marvel released a comic version of the movie episode iv. Xwing rogue squadron is a series of comic books published by dark horse comics. An eponymous series by marvel comics began in 1977 with a sixissue comic adaptation of the film and ran for 107 issues until 1986. Comic book galaxy explores marvels star wars comic book releases and provides a discussion point on the culture and climate of the star wars comic book universe if you have been reading star wars comics in the past month, youve experienced some great storytelling.
The story, art and characters therein are the property of lucasfilm, disney and marvel comics. The star wars is an 8issue comic book miniseries set in the star wars legends or rather, the noncanon infinities part of it, released in 20 and later rereleased in trade paperback and as part of star wars legends epic collection. This was the first comic to be based off a star wars film. They then continued the story where the movie left off for another 101 issues 107 total. Since so many of marvels star wars comics are chained to the episodic films, these books tend to have a weightlessness to them.
Browse issues from the comic book series, star wars, from marvel comics. As indicated in the foreword, at that time, the only other star wars material available were three tiein novels. Star wars for all the variations of the subject on the site. Skywalker strikes by stmichalofwilson on january 15, 2015. The greatest space adventure of all returns to marvel. Issues 16 adapted the events of a new hope and issues 3944 adapted the.
New listing star wars number 1 comic book 1977 first print cgc white pages 9. When i was a kid, after marvel had their first run, dark horse. And is set to mark the hallowed occasion with comic book galaxy, a weekly column celebrating all. Vintage star wars marvel comic books can have significant value to collectors, especially. Ever since darth vader made his first onscreen appearance, he became the one of the most popular villains to ever haunt an audiences dreams. Blackthorne publishing released a threeissue run of 3d comics from 1987 to 1988. A new hope, marvels ongoing star wars comics reveal new stories featuring. There are other 1st comic book appearances that are not necessarily unimportant, but they occur within books that have more important appearancesevents and there is only so much room on the cgc label. Alan dean fosters splinter of the minds eye and the first two of brian daleys original han solo trilogy.
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