The Night Beast

The Night Beast is a comic strip written by Archie Goodwin and illustrated by Al Williamson, published by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate from March to May 1982. It was later reprinted in Amazing Heroes magazine #24–26.

It was republished by Dark Horse Comics, beginning on page 16 of Classic Star Wars 8, and completing in Classic Star Wars 9. It was later republished on StarWars.com's webstrips section of Hyperspace.

Continuity

The March 21 Sunday strip's Star Wars Scrapbook section featured the bounty hunter Dengar but erroneously called him Zuckuss.

Appearances

By type

Characters	Creatures	Droid models	Events	Locations
Organizations and titles	Sentient species	Vehicles and vessels	Weapons and technology	Miscellanea

Characters

C-3PO Chewbacca Jan Dodonna Silver Fyre (Mentioned only) Amise Griff Kalgrath (First appearance) Obi-Wan Kenobi (Mentioned only) Leia Organa R2-D2 Luke Skywalker Han Solo Darth Vader (Mentioned only) Owen Lars (Star Wars Scrapbook section only)

Droid models

Astromech droid R-series R2-series astromech droid R5-series astromech droid Protocol droid 3PO-series protocol droid

Events

Galactic Civil War Yavin blockade

Locations

Aquaris (Mentioned only) Yavin 4 Great Temple Isolation chambers (First appearance)

Organizations and titles

Aquaris Freeholders (Mentioned only) Alliance to Restore the Republic General Galactic Empire Stormtrooper Corps Snowtrooper (Star Wars Scrapbook section only) Jedi Knights (Mentioned only) Bounty hunter (Star Wars Scrapbook section only)

Sentient species

Human Corellian Massassi (First appearance) (Retcon) Wookiee Rwook Jawa (Star Wars Scrapbook section only)

Vehicles and vessels

BTL Y-wing starfighter GR-75 medium transport Imperial-class Star Destroyer T-65 X-wing starfighter TIE/LN starfighter TIE/sa bomber YT-1300 light freighter Millennium Falcon DS-1 Orbital Battle Station (Indirect mention only) (Star Wars Scrapbook section only) Recreation glider (Star Wars scrapbook section only) TIE Advanced x1 (Star Wars Scrapbook section only) Darth Vader's TIE Advanced x1 (Star Wars scrapbook section only) EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate (Star Wars Scrapbook section only) (as Rebel Cruiser)

Weapons and technology

1.4 FD P-Tower Blaster Blaster pistol DL-44 heavy blaster pistol Glowrod Lightsaber Anakin Skywalker's second lightsaber

Collections

• Star Wars: The Classic Newspaper Comics Vol. 2
• Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Newspaper Strips Vol. 2

External links

• The Night Beast on Hyperspace (content removed from StarWars.com; backup link)
• The Night Beast strips at Daily Star Wars' 30th Anniversary blog (backup link)

In other languages

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