Star Wars

From 5,000 years before Luke Skywalker first picked up a lightsaber to nearly 150 years after the events in Return of the Jedi, Dark Horse Comics has chronicled the major events in every era of the Star Wars galaxy in amazing drawings and paintings by some of the most accomplished artists in our own galaxy. In this all-new companion to the first Star Wars Panel to Panel volume, we've spotlighted not only the stunning work of comics' greatest artists, but also the legion of characters Dark Horse has contributed to Star Wars' Expanded Universe - characters who have not only carried the romance and adventure of the galaxy far, far away far beyond the events in the films, but those who have made the jump from the pages of comic books to television and the silver screen! Every Star Wars fan will cherish this look back, forward and beyond!

Collecting the first twenty-six issues of the Marvel Comics Star Wars series that launched in 1977 (the same year as the first film), this first volume of Star Wars Omnibus: A Long Time Ago . . . . is a must have for any Star Wars fan! Future volumes will include material not previously collected along with the consecutively numbered Marvel run: the comics adaptation of Return of the Jedi, material from Marvel UK, the Droids and Ewoks series, and other rare Star Wars comics.

is a 6-issue limited series composed of two story arc-chapters of three issues each, respectively titled "Threat of Peace" and "Blood of the Empire" published by Dark Horse Comics as part of the publicity for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) of the same title based on the Star Wars universe being developed by Bioware and that is scheduled for release by the second or third quarter of 2011. Both story arcs were originally successively published online as web comics and provide back stories to the game. "Threat of Peace", written by developer Rob Chestney serves as a back story prequel of sorts to the game as it takes place in a 10-year span from the signing of the Treaty of Coruscant (Coruscant is a planet in the fictional Star Wars universe) to the events that start the game. The second, "Blood of the Empire" written by BioWare’s Senior Writer Alexander Freed, is set 25 years before the Treaty of Coruscant, and offers readers a new perspective of the events leading up to the start of . Issues #1 and #4 are Minutemmen scans while the rest are by the efficient yet just-as-good GreenGiant.

Collects Star Wars: Republic (1998) #70–#77 and #81–#83, Star Wars: Obsession #1–#5, and Free Comic Book Day 2005. Well played, Darth Sidious. Well played. The end of the Clone Wars is in sight, but so are the end of the Jedi and the fall of the Republic! Obi-Wan Kenobi recruits Anakin Skywalker in a desperate hunt for dark Jedi Asajj Ventress that will lead to a showdown with General Grievous and Count Dooku. Elsewhere, Jedi Generals infiltrate a Separatist base in hopes of concluding a protracted siege, and on Kashyyyk, as the clone troopers respond to Order 66, Master Quinlan Vos finds himself fighting against the army he led to victory.

Collects Star Wars (1977) #1-6 (remastered). The original comic adaptation of the greatest space-fantasy film of all is remastered for the modern age with all-new coloring by Chris Sotomayor! Weeks before George Lucas' first STAR WARS film hit theatres, Marvel gave fans their first look at Luke Skywalker, boldly asking: "Will he save the galaxy, or destroy it?" You may know the answer, but that doesn't spoil the fun of seeing STAR WARS: EPISODE IV - A NEW HOPE like never before…including scenes that never made the silver screen! When Princess Leia is taken prisoner, Luke, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Han Solo, Chewbacca, C-3PO and R2-D2 ride to the rescue and take on Darth Vader in his awesome Death Star. It's six against a galaxy – one that's far, far away and a long time ago! May the Force be with you, in the mighty Marvel manner!