{"id":3195,"date":"2010-04-21T06:45:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T10:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=3195"},"modified":"2010-04-19T01:08:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T05:08:13","slug":"star-wars-resume-comic-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/21\/star-wars-resume-comic-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Resume – Comic Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing my Star Wars Resume<\/em><\/a>!\u00a0 In the summer of 1981, I discovered Star Wars<\/em> comic books.\u00a0 Prior to then I’d picked up an issue or two like any kid might have picked up Archie<\/em> or Sad Sack<\/em>.\u00a0 When I bought Marvel Comics Star Wars<\/em> #50<\/a> off the shelf, I knew I was buying something different.\u00a0 This wasn’t just some throw away tale for kids, this comic was packed with great storytelling, amazing art, and expanded the Star Wars<\/em> universe.\u00a0 From that point I stuck with the Marvel series, eventually buying all the issues (some of the harder to find issues I got in trade paperback format). Once the Marvel title ended in 1986 at issue #107, there really wasn’t a Star Wars<\/em> comic book outlet.\u00a0 I moved on with my comic reading interests, always with a fond memory towards those adventures.<\/p>\n

Then in late 1991, shortly after the publication of the novel Heir to the Empire<\/em>, Dark Horse comics obtained the license to produce Star Wars<\/em> comics.\u00a0 They started with Star Wars: Dark Empire<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Wow, what a series!\u00a0 My friends and I nitpicked it, but really we loved the heck out of it.\u00a0 It was an epic tale with amazing art.\u00a0 Some of the plot points still don’t sit well with me, like the cloned Emperor, but I’m willing to forgive that given the importance of this series.\u00a0 This was the first new Star Wars<\/em> comic in six years and spawned Dark Horse’s Star Wars<\/em> comic line that remains in publication today.<\/p>\n

For me personally, I enjoy the comics that take place after A New Hope<\/em>.\u00a0 My favorites include: the aforementioned Marvel Comics series<\/a> (specifically issues #49 – 81, set between The Empire Strikes Back<\/em> and Return of the Jedi<\/em>), Dark Horse’s Star Wars: Empire<\/em><\/a> & Star Wars: Rebellion<\/em><\/a> (both set between A New Hope<\/em> and The Empire Strikes Back<\/em>), Dark Horse’s Classic Star Wars<\/em><\/a> (reprints the old newspaper strips from the early 1980s), and Dark Horse’s current title Star Wars Legacy<\/em><\/a> (takes place 125 years after Return of the Jedi<\/em>).<\/p>\n

I now own well over 350 hundred Star Wars<\/em> comics.\u00a0 Below you’ll see all my Star Wars comics stacked up, along with some of my Expanded Universe action figures.\u00a0 Click the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n

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Here are the Expanded Universe toys in the picture above:<\/p>\n