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A typical cover of a Star Wars comic published by Dark Horse Comics

Star Wars comic books are comic books relating to the Star Wars universe. Star Wars comics have come in many forms including, comic strips, webstrips, and webcomics but the most common are comic books. Various publishers have produced since the first Star Wars comics were published by Marvel Comics in 1977.

Starting with Star Wars 1 releasing a month before Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, the original Star Wars series ran for 107 issues ending with Star Wars 107 in June 1986. During this time two spin-off comics, Droids and Ewoks were also published by Marvel.

During the late 70s comic strips started to appear in many newspapers including the Los Angeles Times Syndicate who first published the Star Wars comic strips in 1979.

More publishing compaines began to publish comics for the Star Wars saga including Dark Horse Comics, who have published many comic series since 1991 with Star Wars: Dark Empire.

Comics posted on the internet or webcomics, became another form for Star Wars comics. The Hyperspace: The Official Star Wars Fan Club published webstrips which became a featured staple on the site. Many webcomics also tied into other Star Wars media like the Star Wars: The Old Republic and Star Wars: The Clone Wars webcomics.

After The Walt Disney Company purchased Marvel in 2009 and Lucasfilm Ltd. in 2012, the license to produce Star Wars comics returned to Marvel in 2015. Marvel began with a reboot of the original Star Wars series with a run of comics from 2015 until Star Wars 75 in 2019. In 2017, IDW Publishing began the Star Wars Adventures anthology series for young readers. In 2021, StarWars.com annouced the Dark Horse Comics will return to publishing Star Wars comics in 2022.

Types of comic books

Comic strips

Comic strips are comics, presented in a series of strips. A number of Star Wars comics strips were first published in newspapers by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate starting in 1979. Dark Horse Comics edited, colored, and reprinted most of these stories in comic-book form decades later.

Webstrips

Webstrips was an exclusive feature on the Star Wars fan club website, Hyperspace.

It was composed of a number of black-and-white, three-frame comic strips, published daily. The daily webstrips eventually completed an entire story, and a number of these stories were completed and archived. Some of the stories were new, while others were either adaptations of previous tales, or re-releases of comics from the late '70s and early '80s.

Starting in 2004, webstrips were published on StarWars.com's Hyperspace, alongside reprints of most of the original strips from the 1970s and 1980s. In honor of the 30th anniversary of the Star Wars newspaper strips, a blog was started on blogspot.com in 2009 that posted a newspaper comic a day on roughly the same month and date of its original release.

Archived webstrips
Original Hyperspace-exclusive webstrips
Newspaper strips reissued on Hyperspace
Unpublished webstrips

These webstrips appear to have been cancelled, though none officially.

Webcomic

A webcomic is a comic published on the internet. There are a number of official Star Wars webcomics.

Official webcomics

List of comic books

The following is a list of Star Wars comic books, sorted by publisher and series.

Marvel Comics

Marvel Star Wars

Annual issues

Return of the Jedi movie adaptation

Collections

Ewoks

Star Wars: Droids

Marvel UK original stories

Collections

Pizzazz Original Stories

Marvel Omnibus Collections

2015 relaunch line

Ongoing series

Star Wars
Collections
Star Wars: Darth Vader
Collections
Star Wars: Bounty Hunters
Collections
Star Wars: Doctor Aphra
Collections


Finished Series

Star Wars
Collections
Star Wars: Darth Vader
Collections
Star Wars: Kanan
Collections
Star Wars: Poe Dameron
Collections
Star Wars: Doctor Aphra
Collections
Star Wars: Darth Vader (2017)
Collections
Star Wars: The High Republic (2021)
Collections

Miniseries

Star Wars: Princess Leia
Collections
Star Wars: Lando
Collections
Star Wars: Shattered Empire
Collections
Star Wars: Chewbacca
Collections
Star Wars: Obi-Wan and Anakin
Collection
Star Wars: Han Solo
Collection
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Adaptation
Collections
Star Wars: Darth Maul
Collection
Star Wars: Rogue One Adaptation
Collection
Star Wars: Jedi of the Republic – Mace Windu
Collection
Star Wars: Captain Phasma
Collection
Star Wars: Thrawn
Collection
Star Wars: The Last Jedi Adaptation
Collection
Star Wars: Lando - Double or Nothing
Collection
Solo: A Star Wars Story Adaptation
Collection
Star Wars: Han Solo - Imperial Cadet
Collection
Star Wars: Age of Republic
Collection
Star Wars: Age of Rebellion
Collection
Star Wars: Vader - Dark Visions
Collection
Star Wars: TIE Fighter (comic series)
Collection
Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge (comic series)
Collection
Star Wars: Age of Resistance
Collection
Star Wars: Allegiance
Collection
Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order - Dark Temple
Collection
Star Wars: Target Vader
Collection
Star Wars: The Rise of Kylo Ren
Collection
Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters
Collections
Star Wars: The High Republic: Trail of Shadows
Collections
Star Wars: The High Republic: Eye of the Storm
Collections
Star Wars: Crimson Reign
Collection
Star Wars: Halcyon Legacy
Collection
Star Wars: Han Solo & Chewbacca
Collections
Star Wars: Obi-Wan
Collection


Annuals and One-shots

Star Wars Legends collections

Epic Collection
Marvel Omnibus
Film adaptations

IDW Publishing

Star Wars Adventures

Special Issues

Collections

Star Wars Adventures (2020)

Special Issues

Collections

Star Wars: Forces of Destiny

Collections

Star Wars Adventures: Tales from Vader's Castle

Collections

Star Wars Adventures: Destroyer Down

Collections

Star Wars Adventures: Return to Vader's Castle

Collections

Star Wars Adventures: The Clone Wars – Battle Tales

Collections

Star Wars Adventures: Smuggler's Run

Collections

Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures

Special Issues

Collections

Star Wars Adventures: The Weapon of a Jedi

Collections

Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures — The Monster of Temple Peak

Star Wars Adventures: Ghosts of Vader's Castle

One-Shots

Collections

Graphic Novel Adaptations

Blackthorne Publishing

Star Wars 3-D

Dark Horse Comics

Film adaptations

Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace

Hardcover Collection

Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones

Trade Paperback Collection

Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith

Trade Paperback Collection

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - The Special Edition

Trade Paperback Collection

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Adventures

Trade Paperback Collection

Manga film adaptations

Star Wars Manga: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars Manga: A New Hope
Star Wars Manga: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars Manga: Return of the Jedi

PhotoComic

Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi

Trade Paperback Collections

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi — The Golden Age of the Sith

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi — The Fall of the Sith Empire

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi — The Freedon Nadd Uprising

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi - Dark Lords of the Sith

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi — The Sith War

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi - Redemption

Omnibus Collections

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

Trade Paperback Collections

Star Wars: The Old Republic

Trade Paperback Collections

Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith—Spiral

Trade Paperback Collection

Knight Errant

Trade Paperback Collections

Star Wars: Jedi vs. Sith

Trade Paperback Collection

Star Wars: Jedi—The Dark Side

Trade Paperback Collection

Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan series

Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan: Last Stand on Ord Mantell

Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan: The Aurorient Express

Dark Horse Presents Annual 2000: Girls Rule!: Aurra's Song (2000)

Jedi Council: Acts of War

Trade Paperback Collection

Republic

Trade Paperback Collections

Star Wars: Darth Maul

Trade Paperback Collection

Jango Fett: Open Seasons

Trade Paperback Collection

Heart of Fire

Jedi Quest

The Bounty Hunters: Aurra Sing (1999)

Star Wars: Jango Fett (2002)

Star Wars: Zam Wesell (2002)

Poison Moon

Starfighter: Crossbones

Practice Makes Perfect (2002)

Star Wars: Blood Ties: A Tale of Jango and Boba Fett

Star Wars: Blood Ties: Boba Fett is Dead

Most Precious Weapon

Machines of War

Star Wars: Jedi

Clone Wars Adventures

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Trade Paperback Collections

Free Comic Book Day 2009: The Clone Wars: The Gauntlet of Death

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (graphic novellas)

Star Wars: Darth Maul—Death Sentence

Trade Paperback Collection

Star Wars: General Grievous

Trade Paperback Collection

Free Comic Book Day 2006: Routine Valor

Star Wars: Obsession

Free Comic Book Day 2005: Brothers in Arms

Purge

Trade Paperback Collection

Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Lost Command

Trade Paperback Collection

Star Wars: Dark Times

Trade Paperback Collections

Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison

Trade Paperback Collection

Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Ninth Assassin

Trade Paperback Collection

Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Cry of Shadows

Star Wars: Droids

Trade Paperback Collections

Jabba the Hutt

Trade Paperback Collection

Star Wars: Agent of the Empire

Trade Paperback Collections

Classic Star Wars: Han Solo at Stars' End

This Crumb for Hire (1996)

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

Boba Fett: Enemy of the Empire

Trade Paperback Collection

Star Wars: Empire

Trade Paperback Collections

Underworld: The Yavin Vassilika

Trade Paperback Collection

Star Wars Adventures

Marvel Trade Paperback Collections

Classic Star Wars: The Early Adventures

Trade Paperback Collection

Classic Star Wars (various series)

Classic Star Wars

Trade Paperback Collections

Vader's Quest

Trade Paperback Collection

Star Wars (Dark Horse)

Rebel Heist

Trade Paperback Collection

Classic Star Wars: Devilworlds

Star Wars Special: The Constancia Affair (1998)

The Kashyyyk Depths (1979)

Shadow Stalker (1997)

Star Wars: River of Chaos

Rebellion

Collections

Star Wars: Boba Fett

Trade Paperback Collections

Splinter of the Mind's Eye

A Valentine Story (2003)

Star Wars: Tales from Mos Eisley (1996)

Shadows of the Empire

Trade Paperback Collection

Star Wars: Ewoks—Shadows of Endor (2013)

The Bounty Hunters: Scoundrel's Wages (1999)

Star Wars: Mara Jade – By the Emperor's Hand

Trade Paperback Collection

The Jabba Tape (1998)

Shadows of the Empire: Evolution

Trade Paperback Collection

X-Wing: Rogue Leader

Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron

Trade Paperback Collections

The Thrawn Trilogy

Heir to the Empire

Dark Force Rising

The Last Command

Omnibus Collection

Star Wars: Dark Empire

Star Wars: Dark Empire

Star Wars: Dark Empire II

Star Wars: Empire's End

Hardcover Collection

Star Wars: Crimson Empire

Star Wars: Crimson Empire

Crimson Empire II: Council of Blood

Star Wars: Crimson Empire III—Empire Lost

Trade Paperback Collections

The Bounty Hunters: Kenix Kil (1999)

Jedi Academy: Leviathan

Trade Paperback Collection

Star Wars: Union

Trade Paperback Collection

Star Wars: Invasion

Trade Paperback Collections

Star Wars: Chewbacca

Trade Paperback Collection

Star Wars: Legacy

Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2

Star Wars Omnibus

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK original stories

2015 relaunch line

Miniseries

Star Wars: Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir
Collections

Miscellaneous

Star Wars Handbook

Star Wars Tales

Trade Paperback Collections

Infinities

Star Wars Infinities: A New Hope

Star Wars Infinities: The Empire Strikes Back

Star Wars Infinities: Return of the Jedi

Star Wars: Tag & Bink

Sergio Aragonés Stomps Star Wars (2000)

Star Wars Fan Club Special 2008

Star Wars: Visions of the Blade (2008)

Cancelled comics

Kenner

Disney–Lucasfilm Press

Yen Press Manga

Viz Media Manga

StarWars.com webcomics

Unlike some other webcomics, these were not co-created by Dark Horse Comics.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

LEGO comics

Tokyopop

West End Games

Comic Strips

Star Wars newspaper strip

Russ Manning strips

Collected in Classic Star Wars: The Early Adventures (except for The Constancia Affair and The Kashyyyk Depths)

Archie Goodwin strips

Collected in Classic Star Wars, except Planet of Kadril, which was never reprinted, and Han Solo at Stars' End, which was reprinted in its own Classic Star Wars series.

Star Wars Kids

Star Wars Rebels Magazine

Online comics

Star Wars Miniatures advertisements

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