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Vintage Star Wars Comics: Marvel Comics

Post by feitonglong » Fri Aug 29, 2008 9:23 pm

The debut of the Marvel Star Wars Series comics adapted Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope introducing the main characters from the movie before it was screened. Issue 1-6 adapted the movie and from issue 7 up the stories were mostly expanded universe stuff, canon and non-canon. Enjoy reading!

Star Wars #1

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Imperial Forces, led by Darth Vader, capture the Princess Leia Organa's ship while on a mission for the Rebel Alliance, but two droids, R2-D2 and C-3PO, manage to escape to a nearby planet called Tatooine with data critical to the Princess' cause. The droids are acquired by a young moisture farmer Luke Skywalker and his uncle Owen Lars to work at their farm where Luke finds part of an urgent message from Leia to Obi-Wan Kenobi in R2's memory. R2 escapes from the farm with the intention of finding Kenobi on his own; Luke, fearing punishment from his uncle for losing the droid, pursues R2 to the Jundland Wastes only to be attacked by a band of ferocious Sandpeople.

Star Wars #2: Six against the Galaxy

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Luke Skywalker is rescued from an attacking band of Sandpeople by Obi-Wan Kenobi. Once Luke, Obi-Wan, and the droids R2-D2 and C-3PO are safely in Obi-Wan Kenobi's hut, R2 plays a recorded message for Kenobi from the Princess Leia Organa asking him to bring the little droid and the critial information contained within its memory to Alderaan. Initially Luke refuses to accompany Obi-Wan on his journey because of his obligations at home, but upon realizing that his home has been destroyed and his uncle Owen and aunt Beru have been killed by Imperial stormtroopers he agrees to go along. They hire Han Solo and Chewbacca to pilot them to Alderaan aboard the Millennium Falcon.

Star Wars #3: Death Star

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Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin destroys the planet Alderaan with the Death Star I, while the captive Princess Leia Organa looks on in despair. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker with their droids R2-D2 and C-3PO are being transported to the Alderaan in the Millennium Falcon, piloted by Han Solo and Chewbacca. As they approach their destination they discover the remnants of the destroyed planet and are soon captured by the Death Star. While on the Death Star, they find that Princess Leia is being held there and they attempt to rescue her from her captors.

Star Wars #4: In Battle with Darth Vader

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After having some difficulty escaping Imperial stormtroopers aboard the Death Star I, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Chewbacca and the rescued Princess Leia Organa meet with the droids R2-D2 and C-3PO at Docking Bay 327 which holds the Millennium Falcon. Obi-Wan Kenobi also arrives but is confronted by Darth Vader and the two engage in a lightsaber duel. Vader strikes Kenobi down in the duel, but in the confusion Luke, Leia, Han, and the rest of the group make good their escape from the Death Star aboard the Falcon.

Star Wars #5: Lo, The Moons of Yavin

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Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Chewbacca and Princess Leia Organa flee the Death Star I to the Rebel Alliance base on the moon Yavin 4. There they deliver R2-D2 over to the Rebels, who use the information he is carrying to create a plan to destroy the Death Star. Meanwhile, the Death Star has followed the Millennium Falcon to the Rebel base intent on destroying it. Panicked, the Rebels send their pilots on a suicidal mission to destroy the Death Star. Luke, who has decided to help the Rebels, meets up with his old friend Biggs Darklighter as they get ready to blast off into space.

Star Wars #6: Is This the Final Chapter?

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The Death Star's imminent attack on the Rebel Alliance base on Yavin 4 prompts the Rebels to send a squad of T-65 X-wing starfighters to destroy the giant space station. A spectacular space battle ensues between the X-wings and Imperial TIE fighters. Luke Skywalker, with the timely help of Han Solo and Chewbacca, exploits the Death Star's tiny weakness and destroys it, saving the day for the Rebellion.

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Star Wars #7: New Planets, New Perils

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After bidding farewell to their Rebel friends, Han Solo and Chewbacca set out to return to Tatooine to pay off their debt to Jabba the Hutt. En route there, they are hijacked by space pirate Crimson Jack and his gang of thugs. The pirates take the reward money given to Han and Chewbacca by the Rebel Alliance for rescuing Princess Leia Organa, but spare their lives. Forced to lay low because they can't pay Jabba, the two seek refuge on the planet Aduba-3. There they are hired by a priest of the Sacred Way to bury a recently deceased borg. Although they meet with some resistance from the locals who object to having a borg buried in their traditional mound, they do eventually find their way to the burial site. After completing that task, the two smugglers are relaxing in a local cantina where they are presented with a much deadlier one.

Star Wars #8: Eight for Aduba-3

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Han Solo and Chewbacca are hired by Ramiz, a moisture farmer on Aduba-3, to protect his village from a band of local thugs known as the Cloud-Riders led by Serji-X Arrogantus. Han and Chewbacca hire six misfit spacers to help them with the task, including Don-Wan Kihotay, an old man who thinks he is a Jedi Knight, and Jaxxon, a rabbit-like creature with a mean disposition. Serji-X tries to convince Han to forget about his mission to protect the peasants and even offers him compensation, but Han declines. Meanwhile, on Yavin 4, Luke Skywalker, C-3PO and R2-D2 leave in a scout ship to search for a location for the new Rebel Alliance base.

Star Wars #9: Showdown on a Wasteland World

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Han Solo, Chewbacca and the Star-Hoppers arrive at Ramiz' village Onacra, only to find it under attack by flying High-hounds. They repel the beasts, saving the life of a young girl named Merri to the great relief of her father Oncho, the village spokesman. But their relief is short-lived as Serji-X Arrogantus and his gang attack; the Star-Hoppers valiantly defend the village from the attack, but not without cost as FE-9Q is destroyed in the fray. However, Merri's grandfather the Old One, a shaman, dismisses the hired spacers' help and summons a large, mythical reptilian monster called the Behemoth from the World Below to handle the invading Cloud-Riders. Meanwhile, Luke Skywalker informs Leia Organa that he has found a new location for the Rebel Alliance base in the Drexel system, but the transmission suddenly ends, and a worried Leia sets out to find Luke.

Star Wars #10: Behemoth from the World Below

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The Old One has summoned the Behemoth, a giant reptilian monster, to defend the village Onacra from the villainous Cloud-Riders. Serji-X Arrogantus, the leader of the Cloud-Riders, realizes that he and his men have no chance against the beast, and he also realizes that the giant is being controlled by the old shaman. He attacks the Old One but the Behemoth reacts in time to kill Serji-X, however the old shaman is killed as well causing the moster to run amuck. With the rest of the Star-Hoppers running for cover, would-be Jedi Knight Don-Wan Kihotay tries to stop the great beast on his own. Hedji tries to help him, but is killed by the monster without much trouble. Then Han Solo rushes to help Kihotay, and uses the man's lightsaber to destroy the Behemoth. Meanwhile, Leia Organa searches the Drexel system for Luke Skywalker who hasn't been heard from since his last transmission was interrupted.

Star Wars #11: Star Search

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Han Solo and Chewbacca leave Aduba-3 in the Millennium Falcon, only to be captured once again by Crimson Jack and his gang of pirates. Princess Leia Organa had also been captured by the pirate while on her way to the Drexel system to find out what happened to Luke, and Jack intended to hold the Princess for ransom. But Han and Leia secretly devise a ruse to trick the pirates into taking them to the Drexel system by claiming that the Rebels have stockpiled a treasure there. While suspicious of Solo's plan, Jack's greed gets the better of him and he decides to trust the Rebels for the time being. Meanwhile, on Drexel II, Luke Skywalker, R2-D2 and C-3PO are stranded on their wrecked spacecraft floating in the huge ocean that covers the planet and are attacked by a giant Sea-dragon.

Star Wars #12: Doomworld

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Luke Skywalker and the droids C-3PO and R2-D2 are stranded on the water world Drexel II. While floating in their escape pod, they are caught in the middle of a battle between the sea-dragons, ridden by the Dragon Lords, and the hydra craft, piloted by Governor Quarg's men. The combatants are battling for the prize of Luke's wrecked ship, as anything mechanical is a rare commodity on the ocean covered planet. The battle ends in a standoff, but Luke and the droids are captured by the skimmer pilots and brought back to their base where Luke tries to convince Quarg that the droids would be more useful to them intact instead of being stripped down for parts. Meanwhile, Han Solo is leading Crimson Jack and his gang of pirates to the Drexel system under the pretense that there is treasure to be found, but the pirates becomes suspicious when they arrive and the only planet in the system is entirely covered in water.
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Star Wars #13: Day of the Dragon Lords

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On Drexel II, Luke decides to join Governor Quarg's group in their battle against the Dragon Lords, at least for the time being. Meanwhile aboard Crimson Jack's space cruiser, Han Solo is trying to talk his way out of trouble when Jack and his crew realize that they have been duped into coming to Drexel. But Quarg's jamming equipment on the planet's surface causes a disruption on the space cruiser, which is enough of a diversion to allow Solo, Chewbacca, and Princess Leia to escape in the Millennium Falcon to the surface below. The Falcon splashes onto the water covered surface of Drexel II, right in the middle of an epic battle between Quarg's men, piloting hydra craft, and the Dragon Lords. One of the hydra craft attacks the Falcon just as its occupants are exiting from its top hatch. Luke, who is also piloting a hydra craft in the battle, immediately turns on his new comrades and rushes to save the fallen Rebels. He finds only Chewbacca who, thinking Luke was responsible for the attack, becomes enraged at the young Rebel.

Star Wars #14: The Sound of Armageddon

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On the water world of Drexel II, Governor Quarg has used his sonic jammer to cause the Millennium Falcon to crash into the water near his giant city-ship. Han is believed dead, while Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca and the droids are imprisoned inside of Quarg's galleon. Quarg has simultaneously been waging a war against the Dragon Lords who even now attack his ship, riding atop giant sea-dragons.

Quarg has now turned his sonic jammer towards an even greater prize - a stolen Imperial battlecruiser locked in Drexel's orbit. The pirate, Crimson Jack and his first mate, Jolli, attempt to break free of their ship's systems-lock, but find that they are trapped.

Han meanwhile, is not dead at all. The Dragon Lords have rescued him and have taken him to a secret underground cave. The leader of the Dragon Lords tells Han that Quarg's sonic jammer is driving the sea serpents mad and slowly killing them. Han agrees to help them if they agree to help him in return by salvaging the Millennium Falcon.

Governor Quarg has found Princess Leia hiding within the Millennium Falcon and chases her back onto the city-ship. Chewbacca goes berserk (believing that Han is dead) and breaks free of the prison. Luke has been forced into doing Quarg's dirty work until he reunites with Han who explains to him what the sonic jammer is doing to the dragons. Luke rescues Leia and knocks Quarg from the city-ship into the ocean, killing him, just as the jamming equipment is destroyed by the Falcon.

Star Wars #15: Star Duel

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With Governor Quarg killed, and his jamming equipment disabled, Crimson Jack's battlecruiser is fully operational and waiting for Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon to leave the surface of Drexel II so Jack can exact some revenge. Jolli engages in a dogfight with the Falcon, which results in her Y-wing and the Falcon becoming disabled. Although Solo appears helpless as a result of the damage, he forces a personal exchange between himself and Jack when he reveals that Chewbacca had erased Jack's navigational charts while on board his cruiser. Meanwhile, Jolli is requesting assistance because of damage sustained in the earlier battle, but Jack dismisses her focusing instead on how to get back at Solo. Angered by Jack's response, Jolli fires on her former allies and rams her ship into the battlecruiser killing the crew and herself. While Jack survives the blast, he's still bent on killing Solo, but in the final duel between the two Solo ends up killing the red-bearded pirate with a blaster.

Star Wars #16: The Hunter

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Beilert Valance, bounty hunter and droid-hater, leads his mercenary gang on a merciless attack of the Anglebay medical station on Telos-4. There they find a patient called Don-Wan Kihotay in residence who, in his delirium, recounts his adventure with the Star-Hoppers on Aduba-3. But the gang mistakes the Star-Hoppers for the group of Rebels who destroyed the first Death Star, thinking the young farm boy Jimm is actually Luke Skywalker. Thinking of the huge reward for capturing the boy who destroyed the Empire's greatest weapon, as well as the personal enjoyment of punishing someone who favors droids, Valance immediately sets off to find the boy. Jaxxon and Amaiza find out about his plan and go to Aduba-3 to warn Jimm that the bounty hunters are after him. A battle ensues when the gang arrives, and most of them are killed during the fight with the three Star-Hoppers. It is only then that Valance, the lone survivor of his gang, realizes that he was after the wrong boy the whole time, but he makes good his escape by using the blaster built into his cybernetic arm, taking the others by surprise and leaving the planet in his ship Kill Switch.

Star Wars #17: Crucible

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While Luke is piloting the Millennium Falcon through space, his mind flashes back to his life back on Tatooine. Luke, Biggs, Deak, and other youngsters race their T-16 Skyhoppers through the twisting maze of Beggar's Canyon when a wounded scout arrives to warn them of an impending attack by the Sandpeople. While the others try to hold off the attacks, Luke and Biggs rush off to warn the other residents of the area of the danger. Biggs is wounded by a Tusken Raider, and Luke has to take him in his skyhopper through the dangerous caverns of Beggar's Canyon to get him to safety.

Star Wars #18: The Empire Strikes

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While training on board the Millennium Falcon, Luke Skywalker falls into a deep and mysterious trance. As Han, Leia, and Chewbacca pilot the Falcon toward medical help, they stumble across the remains of a House of Tagge merchant ship. They discover a surviving Rebel soldier who tells them that the Tagge ship was actually attacked by Imperials, but was made to look like it was Rebels who destroyed the civilian craft. The Imperial cruiser of Commander Strom soon arrives on the scene intending to capture the Falcon and her crew, but Han pilots their escape to the relative safety of The Wheel. Strom sends his troops to follow, but soon hears from the Wheel administrator Simon Greyshade who reminds the Imperial commander that the Wheel is supposed to be free of interference from the Empire. Strom then claims that these Rebels are resposible for the attack on the House of Tagge ship which was carrying profits from the Wheel, at which point Greyshade relents and allows the Imperials onto the Wheel's lower levels to catch the Rebels.

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Star Wars #19: The Ultimate Gamble

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The crew of the Millennium Falcon have split up aboard the gambler's paridise known as The Wheel. While the droids C-3PO and R2-D2 take the unconscious Luke Skywalker to the Wheel's medical center, the Wheel's administrator Senator Simon Greyshade arranges to have Princess Leia brought to his quarters. And Chewbacca, having made his way to the Crimson Casino on the Wheel's upper level, is captured by members of the Wheel Security Force and forced to enter The Big Game. In the meantime, Han Solo is also entered into The Big Game, not knowing that Chewbacca is also a contestant in the gladiatorial event. This has all been arranged by Greyshade, who is working out a deal with Imperial Commander Strom to have all of the Rebels meet an untimely end on the condition that Leia be allowed to stay with Greyshade on the Wheel.

Star Wars #20: Deathgame

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As part of a plot to discredit the Rebel Alliance, Senator Simon Greyshade sets up a scene where a pleasure yacht is attacked by an X-wing fighter only to be repelled by Imperial TIE fighters. The scene is broadcast into the casinos on The Wheel where the patrons watch in horror at the viciousness of the Rebels. Also part of Greyshade's scheme is to have Han Solo and Chewbacca each killed while playing in separate events of The Big Game gladiator contest, but Solo confounds him by defeating his powerful opponent much to everyone's surprise. Meanwhile, the droids R2-D2 and C-3PO have been appropriated by The Wheel, and are scheduled to have their memories wiped when Master-Com rescues them from their fate. The three droids then go to the medical center to see to Luke Skywalker, only to find that not only has he regained consciousness but he has escaped.

Star Wars #21: Shadow of a Dark Lord

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Princess Leia escapes from Simon Greyshade's suite, where she was held captive, and finds Luke Skywalker, who has now recovered from his trance-like state. Luke reveals that his trance was caused by touching someone else's mind through the Force for a moment, someone strong with the Force who he suspects to be Darth Vader. At the same time Greyshade is meeting with his new partner Commander Strom, The Wheel administrator has secretly sent his Wheel Security Force to subdue Strom's troops and recover the money that they had stolen from The Wheel. And now that Han Solo is getting ready to enter the main event of The Big Game he realizes that Chewbacca is also entered in the contest, and according to the rules there can be only one survivor. Meanwhile on the planet Ultaar, Darth Vader finds the remains of a Rebel information retrieval team which has already been wiped out by the bounty hunter Beilert Valance. Vader now realizes that Valance is searching for the same thing that Vader is, the boy who destroyed the Death Star I, and the race is on to see who finds him first.

Star Wars #22: To the Last Gladiator

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Han Solo and Chewbacca are involved in the main event of The Big Game along with many other gladiators, and the two team up against the rest of the combatants to stay alive. But they realize that, according to the rules, only one of them will be permitted to leave the game alive. While Simon Greyshade, who has been orchestrating events on The Wheel, presents Princess Leia with a proposition: escape with Greyshade and his stolen treasure and her Rebel friends will go free. As she contemplates her decision, she watches the main event with Han and Chewbacca, and witnesses Han apparently slain by his Wookiee companion.

Star Wars #23: Flight Into Fury

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As Simon Greyshade and Princess Leia prepare to leave The Wheel, Imperial stormtroopers attempt to stop them as Commander Strom realizes that he has been betrayed by Greyshade. However Greyshade, tired of being upstaged by Luke Skywalker's noble actions, decides to allow Luke and Leia leave with their droids on his ship while he stays behind to cover their escape. After they depart, Strom confronts the wounded Greyshade intent on carrying out some revenge, but Greyshade foils that as well by tossing a proton grenade in Strom's direction killing him and fatally wounding Greyshade as well as critically damaging his droid Master-Com. In the meantime, Chewbacca is leaving the main event of The Big Game with his partner Han Solo, who although was apparently killed in the event, now reveals himself to be perfectly healthy. The two make their way to the Millennium Falcon and leave The Wheel just in time to confront Darth Vader's battlecruiser. But Luke, while piloting the space yacht, stuns Vader through the use of the Force for just long enough for both Rebel craft to escape into hyperspace.

Star Wars #24: Silent Drifting

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After Han Solo used some skillful piloting of the Millennium Falcon to destroy some TIE fighters, Princess Leia mentioned that Jedi pilots developed that same maneuver and she tells of one particular event involving Obi-Wan Kenobi. Kenobi was traveling as a passenger on a pleasure cruiser when he was notified by Captain Quasar that Merson pirates had been spotted in the Merson asteroid field. The Jedi used some quick action to destroy the attacking ships, but he suspected that the Mersons had been lured to their cruiser by a signal from within their own craft. The other passengers immediately accused Augustus Tryll, a known criminal, of working with the Mersons, but Kenobi was not so quick to judge without proof. As more Merson ships were spotted, he realized that the signal the pirates were tracking was originating from an innocent fermentation device on board the cruiser, and once that was destroyed the danger was defused.

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Star Wars #25: Siege at Yavin

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After their escape from the Wheel, Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker arrive at Centares to trade in the space yacht for a more practical, and less traceable, ship. As they leave the planet they discover that a House of Tagge Mining Explorer is on its way to Yavin. Knowing the Tagge's ties with the Empire, and fearing for the security of the Rebel base on Yavin 4, they decide to follow them and investigate further. They discover that the Mining Explorer is transporting Imperial TIE fighters to the planet Yavin, and hiding the fighters in the thick gaseous atmosphere of the giant planet. Luke and Leia realize that this can only mean danger for the Rebel base nearby and rush to alert them, but are intercepted by an Imperial patrol.

Star Wars #26: Doom Mission

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The Empire has set up a blockade of the Gordian Reach Sector, and Luke and Leia, on their way back to the Rebel base on Yavin 4, are ambushed by two Imperial TIE fighters. But just as the situation appears hopeless, a Rebel X-wing patrol arrives and destroys the two enemy fighters. Once they finally arrive at the base, they inform General Jan Dodonna about the events they observed earlier, where TIE fighters were entering the gaseous atmosphere of Yavin. Since Yavin's atmosphere is too thick for conventional signalling, they deduce that the House of Tagge and the Empire have developed some new signalling technology and set up a launch station within the gas giant. Luke goes on a mission to retrieve one of the signalling units from a downed TIE fighter, but at the cost of critical damage to R2-D2. Luke then pilots a captured TIE fighter, fitted with the new signalling unit, through the atmosphere of Yavin to the Achtnak Turbine Station. He destroys the station without trouble, but must find his way back to open space without the benefit of guidance from the station. Using the Force to direct him, Luke manages to find his way out of the thick atmosphere, but little does he know that Baron Orman Tagge followed him out, saving himself from being lost in Yavin forever.

Star Wars #27: Return of the Hunter

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The bounty hunter Beilert Valance has come to the world of Feriae Junction where he shoots a cantina patron named Marko Tyne and then retreats to his agent, Skinker to collect the bounty. Valance's payment is a collection of rebuilt droids, which he then melts into slag with several blasts from his weapon. Valance has an irrational hatred of all droids, and he hunts them down wherever he can find them. Valance's next mission is to find Luke Skywalker. Not only is Luke a droid-owner, but he also apparently treats them as equals which Valance finds repulsive.

Luke meanwhile, has taken C-3PO with him in a blockade runner and is mapping out the perimeter of the Galactic Empire's most recent blockade. He deftly maneuvers the runner out of the way of an oncoming Imperial cruiser before making the jump to hyperspace. Now Luke has to find a trading post so that he can find parts needed to make repairs to the disabled R2-D2. He lands the blockade runner on Junction.

Valance meanwhile has discovered that the Imperial spy Garindan has been trying to alert the Empire as to Valance's presence on Junction (Valance is an Imperial defector). Valance shoots Garindan, killing him before he can transmit a signal.

Luke and Threepio arrive at Skinker's salvage yard. They acquire the parts they need, but before long Valance returns and finds them. He tries firing at Luke with his blaster, but Luke deflects the shot with his lightsaber. The blast arcs back, striking Valance in the face. Part of his flesh is melted away to reveal cybernetic parts beneath. Valance hates droids because he is now forced to live as a cyborg (due to injuries sustained from an aerial torpedo). But Valance manages to get Luke's blaster and saber away from him and is prepared to kill him. In a rare moment of bravery, C-3PO stands between Luke and Valance declaring that he is ready to sacrifice himself for his master. Moved by behavior which is typically uncharacteristic for a droid (and exceptionally uncharacteristic for Threepio), Valance decides to let them go.

Star Wars #28: What Ever Happened to Jabba the Hut?

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The rough re-entry of the Millennium Falcon from hyperspace after escape from a Star Destroyer prompts Han Solo and Chewbacca to land on the Mid Rim world Orleon, a smuggler's hideout constantly besieged by rain. As Han and Chewbacca made repairs, the Wookiee noted the cavern they had sheltered the Falcon in leaked from the roof.

Han and Chewbacca's attention was diverted by the arrival of Jabba the Hut (sic) (here depicted, just as in other Star Wars comics, as a tall, slim Nimbanel with yellow skin.) While Jabba's forces assaulted the cavern to drive Han and Chewbacca into the open, the two smugglers were faced with another problem: the entire cavern ceiling was infested with stone mites, living weapons from the Clone Wars that could eat through anything.

The stone mites poured onto the Falcon, and Han and Chewbacca barely made it on board. Attempts to burn the stone mites off the Falcon surface failed because all the rock around them was infested with them. Han then had the idea of Chewbacca using the Falcon dorsal laser cannons to blast away the cavern roof which the stone mites had "eaten" into a shell. The Falcon escaped through the blasted surface and left Orleon, where they confronted Jabba the Hut's ship. From transmissions between the Falcon and Jabba's Voidraker, it's learned that one of Jabba's crew allowed stone mites to get into his weapon and brought them on board. As the only survivor, Jabba pleads with Han for sanctuary on the Falcon. Jabba jets over in his flight suit, but Han's "payment" for allowing the Hut sanctuary (on the ship, not in it) is that his and Chewbacca's debts are canceled.

Star Wars #29: Dark Encounter

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Darth Vader discovers that Tyler Lucian, a Rebel deserter, knows the name of the Rebel pilot who destroyed the Death Star. The bounty hunter Beilert Valance is on the trail of the same man but for a different reason, he wants to prevent the Vader from learning the information he seeks. The two confront each other near Lucian's hideout at Rubyflame Lake, and a terrific battle occurs between the two cyborgs. Vader is victorious when Valance falls into the fatally corrosive lake waters allowing the dark lord to freely enter Lucien's hideout. But Lucian decides not to wait for Vader but instead jumps into Rubyflame Lake, killing himself and thwarting Vader's plans.

Star Wars #30: A Princess Alone

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Princess Leia Organa travels to Metalorn on a mission to spread the message of hope to its residents. Metalorn, a factory planet, has been completely controlled by the Galactic Empire under the direction of Governor Corwyth with no information of the Rebellion reaching its citizens. Leia manages to evade Imperial stormtroopers long enough to contact her former instructor Arn Horada in order to have him spread the word that the Rebel Alliance is actively opposing the Empire's tyranny. She is quickly confronted by Baron Orman Tagge before she is able to establish any details, but manages to escape with the help of a youngster named Tammi.

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Post by hbng » Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:15 pm

Hey, these are all yours? Cool!

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Post by feitonglong » Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:33 pm

hbng wrote:Hey, these are all yours? Cool!
yup my only star wars valuables now hahaha ...... thinking of rebooting the figures collecting ...... :D

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Star Wars #31: Return to Tatooine

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Luke Skywalker returns to Tatooine for the first time since leaving with Obi-Wan Kenobi, his mission is to recruit blockade runner pilots to help the Rebel Alliance evacuate their base on Yavin 4. However, while he is there he finds some clues to a secret plan of the House of Tagge working with the Empire, but not enough to find out exactly what they are up to. He goes to Mos Eisley to continue his original mission, and reunites with Han Solo and Chewbacca in the same cantina where they had originally met months earlier. But the celebration is short lived as Fixer arrives to warn Luke that the Empire is aware that the young Rebel is on Tatooine and actively searching for him.

Star Wars #32: The Jawa Express

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Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca, and the droids are stranded in the Dune Sea of Tatooine after fleeing Imperial stormtroopers from Mos Eisley. They arrange a deal with some Jawas to travel with them in their sandcrawler, and soon discover further evidence of the plans of the House of Tagge working in concert with the Empire to create a long range freezing mechanism, but the purpose of the technology still remains a mystery to the Rebels. The Rebels elude their Imperial pursuers and head back to Mos Eisley.

Star Wars #33: Saber Clash

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As the Millennium Falcon and her crew depart Tatooine they recognize a House of Tagge Mining Explorer readying to jump to hyperspace. The Rebels decide to follow them to Feriae Junction where the Mining Explorer meets with an Imperial battlecruiser. There the Tagges transfer their mysterious Omega Frost technology to the Imperial craft, and lure Luke Skywalker into a trap. With Luke captured, Han Solo pilots the Falcon to the Rebel base at Yavin 4 to let them know that the Empire plans to use their Omega Frost weapon against Junction, a critical source of supplies for the Alliance. Back on the Mining Explorer Luke engages in a lightsaber duel with Baron Orman Tagge, and at first the elder Tagge toys with Luke, but soon realizes that the youth has more ability than he expected. Luke eventually defeats Tagge by destroying his cyber-vision and thus rendering him helpless, and heads back to the Rebel base to inform them of the true target of the Omega Frost weapon since the news that Han brought back was misinformation.

Star Wars #34: Thunder in the Stars

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After his defeat at the hands of Luke Skywalker in a duel of lightsabers, Baron Orman Tagge has gone into a state of shock and is kept under heavy sedation on the orders of his brother Silas Tagge. While Han Solo is leading the Rebel Fleet to Feriae Junction under the impression that the Omega Frost is going to be unleashed on their supply planet. But that was a ruse, in reality the weapon is targeting the Junction asteroid corridor just as the fleet is to pass through it. Luke had escaped from the Tagges but his ship has been sabotaged and he is forced to abandon his craft before in crashes into one of the asteroids. With no way to warn the Rebels that they are entering into a trap, he finds and destroys one of the towers which generates the Omega Frost effect just as the Rebel fleet is entering the weapon's range. The fleet then changes course to attack the Tagges' Mining Explorer destroying the ship before Silas and Orman can escape.

Star Wars #35: Dark Lord's Gambit

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Darth Vader finally learns the name of the boy who destroyed the Death Star I, and sets a plan in motion to get his revenge. He enlists the aid of General Ulric Tagge as well as his younger sister Sister Domina Tagge to help him in the endeavor. Domina is a member of the Order of the Sacred Circle who have thus far remained neutral in the Galactic Civil War, but that will soon change and each side in the conflict will send a single envoy to Monastery to present his case. Vader is to represent the Galactic Empire and Domina ensures that the Rebels would send Luke Skywalker as their representative. However, Leia and Han travel to the system in the Millennium Falcon and orbit Monastery and monitor Luke's activities through R2-D2 who accompanied Luke on the mission. While Luke thinks he may be in over his head on this diplomatic mission, Domina reassures him even though her true intentions are revenge for Luke's involvement in the apparent death of Orman Tagge.

Star Wars #36: Red Queen Rising

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The Millennium Falcon is captured by an Imperial battlecruiser near Monastery, but Princess Leia causes a distraction on the cruiser allowing them to escape. But Baron Orman Tagge has also broken free of the life support capsule on the cruiser, and hides himself aboard the Falcon before its escape from the Imperials. Meanwhile on Monastery, Luke Skywalker is preparing for his presentation before the elders in the Temple of the Sacred Circle, but once he arrives Domina Tagge reveals to him that they have already decided against him. Luke objects and Darth Vader sees an opportunity to challenge the young Rebel to a duel of lightsabers. But Domina surprises both of them by forbidding them from battling in the temple, instead she arranges for the duel to take place in the Crystal Valley.

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Star Wars #37: In Mortal Combat

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Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader enter the dangerous Crystal Valley as arranged by Domina Tagge, her plan is to not only have Luke killed, but Vader as well since he was a long time rival of her brother Baron Orman Tagge. The Millennium Falcon arrives on the planet on the order of Baron Tagge, and he enters the Crystal Valley to confront Vader. Vader reveals to Orman that his sister is not as innocent as the eldest Tagge would believe and convinces him to duel Luke in Vader's place. Orman does so, but Vader makes a visual illusion so that Luke believes he is really fighting Vader. Luke kills Orman and escapes the Crystal Valley, and is reunited with his Rebel comrades.

Star Wars #38: Riders in the Void

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Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia were on a mission to transport medical supplies for the Rebellion when an Imperial Star Destroyer attacked their craft. In an attempt to escape they made the jump to hyperspace but there was some damage to the craft as it began to shake violently as they traveled through hyperspace and Luke decided to drop back to sublight travel. Once they did, they realized that had traveled beyond their home galaxy and into the starless void. Their craft is quickly swallowed by a mysterious organic ship which proceeds to play some deadly games with them. Once the ship realizes that Luke and Leia are actually real individuals and not part of its own programming it tries to forcibly expel them. However, the ship reconsiders its actions and decides to take them back to their home galaxy where the ship is attacked by the same Imperial Star Destroyer which had attacked the Rebels earlier. The ship quickly destroyed the cruiser with anti-matter pods and returns to its home in the void after allowing Luke and Leia to leave its hold.

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Issue 39-44 adapted Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back ......

Star Wars #39: The Empire Strikes Back: Beginning

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The Rebel Alliance has established a new base on the ice planet called Hoth, but an Imperial probe droid discovers their location and transmits the data before it can be destroyed. Luke Skywalker has been attacked by one of the Wampas and is taken to the creatures cave, but Luke escapes from its custody and, with the help of Han Solo, returns to Echo Base. Captain Firmus Piett receives the probe droid's signal and reports his findings to Darth Vader who immediately orders the fleet to the Hoth system.

Star Wars #40: The Empire Strikes Back: Battleground Hoth

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At the medical center of Echo Base on Hoth, Luke Skywalker is recovering from wounds sustained from an attack by a wampa ice monster. A tender moment between Princess Leia and him is briefly shared before Han Solo and Chewbacca enter to check on Luke’s status. Leia and Han argue a bit and Leia kisses Luke in order to make Han jealous.

Meanwhile on board the super Star Destroyer, Executor, Lord Vader’s crew receives the information transmitted by the Imperial Viper probe droid. Vader knows that the rebel base is on Hoth and orders the fleet towards that location.

Admiral Ozzel of the Empire brings the fleet out of lightspeed too quickly thus alerting the Rebels to their presence. As such, the rebels activate an energy field keeping all laser fire from reaching the planet. As punishment for this, Darth Vader uses the Force to strangle Ozzel. He promotes Captain Piett of the Executor to Ozzel’s position.

The Empire deploys AT-AT and AT-ST walkers to the planets surface. Under the command of General Veers, their purpose is to take out the generators that power the energy field. Luke Skywalker leads a squad of snowspeeders to counter the Walkers while Bren Derlin leads the ground assault.

Han Solo meanwhile, has Chewbacca prep the Millennium Falcon so that he can get the Princess off the planet.

During the ground battle, Luke’s gunner Dak Ralter is killed and their speeder crashes into a snow bank. An Imperial Walker bears down on them ready to crush the crippled speeder with one of its feet.

Star Wars #41: The Empire Strikes Back: Imperial Pursuit

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Luke Skywalker escapes from the downed snowspeeder just as the AT-AT approaches him. Grabbing a harpoon gun, he runs underneath the behemoth and fires the harpoon into the AT-AT’s underside, and climbs up the rope and slices a hatch open with his lightsaber. Throwing a thermal detonator inside the AT-AT, he succeeds in destroying the vehicle.

Back at Echo Base, Darth Vader personally leads a contingent of snowtroopers throughout the rebel headquarters. Han Solo rushes Princess Leia and C-3PO through the access corridors as Imperial gunfire pummels the base. He gets them aboard the Millennium Falcon and takes off.

Star Wars #42: The Empire Strikes Back: To Be a Jedi

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Luke Skywalker watches as his recently landed X-wing fighter begins to slowly sink into the swamps of Dagobah. He endeavors to set up camp until he meets a diminutive green gnome who unceremoniously begins rifling through his belongings. The gnome learns that Luke is looking for a Jedi Master named Yoda and volunteers to take him to him. They return to the gnome’s dwelling and Luke begins to act impatient. It is revealed that the gnome is in fact, master Yoda. Yoda feels that Luke is too old and reckless to learn the ways of the Jedi, but the voice of Obi-Wan Kenobi encourages Yoda to train him. Yoda begins putting Luke through an extensive training period of physical and mental exercises. He pushes him to expand his knowledge and use of the Force.

While Luke is training on Dagobah, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Princess Leia, and C-3PO continue to outmaneuver Imperial gun ships through an asteroid field. Han angles the Millennium Falcon down towards one of the larger asteroids and swoops into a cave inside one of the craters. He lands the Falcon deep within the recesses of the cave as Imperial TIE bombers drop their payloads onto the outer surface of the asteroid. But they only touch down for a brief moment, until they realize that the “caveâ€

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Post by HyBRiD » Sat Aug 30, 2008 5:13 am

dude.. why don't u have them graded!!?! omg so many!! i wish i had all lolz
The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force

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HyBRiD wrote:dude.. why don't u have them graded!!?! omg so many!! i wish i had all lolz
107 books + 3 annuals + many others ...... too expensive to get them graded, just wanna keep them in protected environment ...... :lol: :oops:

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Star Wars #45: Death Probe

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Imperial officer, Admiral Damon Krell sends a prototype Infiltrator probe droid on a direct course for a damaged blockade runner. The Probe smashes through the ship's hull and begins slaughtering the entire crew. It attaches itself to the main power grid of the ship and takes command of all of the vessel's automated functions.

Luke Skywalker's X-wing fighter comes upon the runner, but the larger ship's weapons systems blows his ship to pieces. Luke and R2-D2 jettison from the X-Wing and space-walk to the blockade runner. Using his lightsaber, he cuts himself a path inside through a service conduit. Luke encounters the probe droid but realizes that he cannot tamper with it, less he accidentally initializes a self-destruct sequence. Worse, he determines that the probe droid intends on piloting the blockade runner into the Rebel fleet and detonating the ship. But the probe droid registers that the intruder aboard the ship is Luke Skywalker. A red flag in its programming activates, with prior orders to capture and bring Skywalker back to Darth Vader, alive. This order supersedes all others and the Probe Droid redirects its course. The Rebel fleet is now alerted to the danger. Luke succeeds in having R2 hack into a section of the ship's controls, enough to activate one escape pod. Luke sends a message to the fleet before R2 and he get into the escape pod. The probe droid detours the blockade runner through hyperspace back to Admiral Krell's ship. But the reactor core is still primed to go into meltdown. The runner collides with the Imperial Star Destroyer destroying both in the process.

Star Wars #46: The Dreams of Cody Sunn-Childe

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While Lando Calrissian and Chewbacca are on their way to rescue Han Solo, the Millennium Falcon encounters problems while in hyperspace which causes them to enter another dimension. They come upon a mysterious floating city, and soon discover that the city is the psychic creation of the long lost Rebel hero Cody Sunn-Childe. Sunn-Childe turned his back on his violent past years ago when he discovered the a powerful mystical ability, and so created his City of Dreams to live with his friends in peace away from the Galactic Civil War. Calrissian rejects Sunn-Childe's views claiming that there are times that violence is necessary and he proceeds to repair the Falcon to leave Sunn-Childe's paradise. But before he can depart a fleet of Imperial Star Destroyer attack the city after finding an opening in the dimensional fabric. Under the command of Captain Plikk, they drain their power in their attack on the city, and though Sunn-Childe could easily demolish the fleet with his power, he decides to hold to his pacifist beliefs and allow himself and his city to be destroyed. Calrissian leaves the Imperial fleet stranded in the other dimension as punishment for destroying Sunn-Childe's dream.

Star Wars #47: Droid World

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The Rebel Alliance have captured a damaged new model of an Imperial warbot on Xeron and decide to ask the assistance of the droid populated space station known as Kligson's Moon in repairing the droid so the Alliance technicians can study it. Kligson agrees to repair the droid, but R2-D2 and C-3PO must accompany the warbot to observe the operation since Kligson intends to keep the droid after it's repaired. However, another droid on Kligson's moon has other ideas as the former Imperial droid Z-X3 plans to use parts of the warbot to repair his own war droid and lead a revolt against Kligson. But Kligson had anticipated this and sent a decoy to lure Z-X3 and his followers out into the open when he would launch his own warbot against them. With the battle over, R2-D2 and C-3PO record the schematics of the warbot and return to the Rebels, while Kligson moves his station from its current orbit to a more secret location where the Empire cannot find it.

Star Wars #48: The Third Law

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Princess Leia Organa, C-3PO, R2-D2 and Rebellion finance minister Viscount Tardi arrive on the banking world of Aargau to complete the financing of a sale of X-wing fighters to the Rebellion. Also on the planet is Darth Vader and his entourage of paid assassins specializing in unarmed combat as it is forbidden for non-citizens of Aargau to carry weapons.

Vader's assassins make several attempts on Tardi's life, but Leia's quick wit succeeds in not only saving the Viscount, but destroying the assassins as well. Ultimately Vader is forced to play his hand and he cuts Tardi down with his lightsaber, but Viscount Tardi is actually just a droid made in his image and the real Tardi had died months ago. Leia had R2 record video images of the "murder" and transmit them to C-3PO who is waiting at police headquarters to prevent Vader from exposing their ruse to the authorities. Leia needed the fake Viscount to secure the loan, and she used the Crown Jewels of Alderaan as indisputable collateral, but knowing that the authorities would have discovered that Tardi was a fake when they passed through Aargau's security scanners as soon as they attempted to leave the planet, it was necessary for Leia to manipulate Darth Vader into destroying the duplicate.

Darth Vader has also been manipulating Princess Leia as he really has no interest in preventing her financial deal for the starfighters, he actually wanted to take possession of the priceless jewels. He bribed an officer at the local customs station, and succeeded in acquiring the treasure, and had only played along with Leia's plan to ensure he could leave the planet without the jewels being missed by the authorities.

Star Wars #49: The Last Jedi

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Princess Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker and the droids take a Y-wing fighter to a jungle planet where they answer a beacon left behind by Prince Denid of Velmor. Denid, his betrothed Loren, and his friend Jedidiah crash-landed on this world years ago, a crash that claimed Loren's life. It is now imperative that he returns to Velmor to take the rite of succession or else his younger brother, an Imperial sympathizer, will gain control of the planet. Luke is surprised to find that Jedidiah, now addle-brained due to an injury was once a potential Jedi Knight.

With Luke disguised as a bounty hunter, and Leia disguised as Loren, they escort Prince Denid back to Velmor to claim the throne just in time to prevent the coronation of Denid's brother Anod as the new king. This frustrates not only Anod but also Zelor and Imperial Captain Zeta Traal, each of whom have their own plans for power.

At the ceremonial Mrid Hunt to commemorate the return of Denid, Traal plans to have Denid and Leia killed in order to keep the planet sympathetic to the Empire. Zelor also desires the two would-be leaders dead, but for his own personal gain since he would rule the planet if no one of royal blood could take the throne. In the ensuing battle Denid and Leia are wounded by Anod, but Anod himself is killed by Traal. Zelor intends to kill Luke thinking the brash scoundrel would be no match for him with his energy sword, but he doesn't realize that Luke is a skilled swordsman who easily defeats Zelor. But during the duel, Traal has a clear shot at them both but is interrupted by Jedidiah who bravely sacrifices himself to prevent Luke from being captured.

With all of the conspirators either killed or captured, Denid is free to become King of Velmor and pledges to be sympathetic to the Rebellion. Luke, Leia and the droids bid farewell to Denid and leave Velmor, and Luke takes charge of Jedidiah's body and gives him a funeral in space in honor of the fallen hero's bravery.

Star Wars #50: The Crimson Forever

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Lando Calrissian and Chewbacca pilot the Millennium Falcon from the site of a new Imperial base with TIE fighters in hot pursuit when a Rebel Blockade Runner fires into the TIEs' midst. Leia is on board the Runner and compels Lando and Chewbacca to abandon their current search for carbonite-frozen Han Solo in light of a greater threat to the Rebel Alliance.

At a former mining colony commandeered as the new Rebel base on volcanic planet Golrath, Leia shows Lando and Chewbacca 2-1B operating on a comatose Luke Skywalker whose only visible change is the crimson pallor of his eyes. On a routine X-wing patrol flight, Luke and his squadron came across a derelict Imperial Star Destroyer with all its personnel dead and turned crimson-skinned. Luke and the other pilots caught the unknown virus as well and were promptly quarantined after returning to base. The others died, but Luke remains only in suspended animation through his affinity with the Force.

Leia remembers a story Han once told her about his and Chewbacca's mission on the edge of the galaxy that involved two red jewels; one such jewel was found out of its canister on the Star Destroyer. He hesitates at first, but Chewbacca relates (with C-3PO translating) how he and Han were shanghaied aboard a pirate ship and transported to the Red Nebula, an area of the Unknown Regions. With a crew of pirates and mercenaries, Han pilots the ship safely through the asteroid field that separates the Red Nebula from the rest of the galaxy. Upon landing on a planet orbiting a single sun, Han, Chewbacca, and several mercenaries descend on a temple to remove what ship's captain and exile Klysk says are two red jewels with worth beyond calculating.

Upon arrival at the temple, three of the mercenaries encounter the priest and the temple's twelve-foot-tall shaggy guardian. In this distraction, Han reaches for the jewels himself, but the guardian reaches for Chewbacca instead, perceiving a childlike version of herself in the Wookiee. Han returns to Klysk with the jewels, but he takes them and strands Solo on the planet, dooming it in the priest's belief to their destruction by the Red Nebula. The jewels were believed to protect the planet from cosmic forces, and after Klysk pilots his ship into the sun, the priest believes them doomed. Solo then confesses that he replaced the jewels with rocks before he gave them to Klysk; however, one of Klysk's crew tried to make off with a single jewel, and he's found dead with crimson skin -- the first known sighting of what the Alliance came to call the Crimson Forever. Han and Chewbacca are provided with a ship to leave the planet, and Chewbacca's story ends.

Back in the present, Lando, Leia, and Chewbacca pilot the Millennium Falcon into the Red Nebula and find a battle-scarred House of Tagge mining explorer. The then-head of the House, Domina Tagge, explains to a captive Lando and Leia how she hired bounty hunters Bossk, Dengar, IG-88, and Zuckuss to help her find a power that would destroy the Empire and the Alliance in vengeance for her brother Orman Tagge's death at the hands of Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker. The other jewel's on board the ship, but the whole area's been quarantined because the longer both jewels remain separate, the more organic lifeforms are affected by them. The Star Destroyer Luke's patrol encountered intercepted the Tagge explorer and confiscated one of the jewels.

After Lando and Leia escape, Domina plays the last card she has; by having droid IG-88 reunite the two jewels, the effects of the Crimson Forever are reversed for Luke Skywalker. The jewels themselves are dispatched out of the galaxy, and Domina Tagge and the bounty hunters are given transport away from the Star Destroyer. In the last panel, Lando says he suggested to the bounty hunters that the Empire might offer a substantial reward for Domina Tagge for the destruction of a crew on one of their ships-of-the-line. "They seemed quite interested."

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Star Wars #51: Resurrection of Evil

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General Rieekan receives word from Rebel spies that the Galactic Empire is constructing a new superweapon known as the Tarkin. Realizing the danger the new weapon poses, Rieekan sends for the group of Rebels who survived the original Death Star, Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Chewbacca, and the droids C-3PO and R2-D2. The three Rebels and two droids are sent to the planet Hockaleg in the Patriim system in order to infiltrate an Imperial construction crew and make their way on board the Tarkin. However, Darth Vader observes as the Rebels arrive in the giant weapon, and sets events in motion to capture his long sought after adversary, Luke Skywalker. But little does the Dark Lord know that some of his own men are secretly plotting against him due to his vicious punishments imposed against their fellow Imperial officers.

Star Wars #52: To Take The Tarkin

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The Rebels Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, and Chewbacca along with the droids C-3PO and R2-D2 have infiltrated the Imperial superweapon Tarkin with the intention of sabotaging it. While they are carrying out their plan, Darth Vader is arranging a confrontation with Luke, but a group of Imperial officers led by General Biel, are planning to destroy the Sith Lord. The officers' plan fails, but Vader decides to focus on capturing the Rebels and deal with the insurgents later. Having hampered the firing mechanism of the Tarkin, the Rebels escape the station but are attacked by a group of TIE fighters, including one piloted by Vader. Fortunately for the Rebels, Lando Calrissian had stowed aboard the Millennium Falcon and he pilots the freighter to the aid of the others. With Vader's fighter disabled, Biel attempts to fire the Tarkin's superlaser at the Rebels, hoping Vader would be caught in the blast. But the superweapon self-destructs at the time it fires killing all on board.

Star Wars #53: The Last Gift From Alderaan

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Princess Leia Organa and Captain Chedaki pilot a blockade runner to investigate Imperial activity in the Shiva system, but as the two are entering a shuttle to go down to the planet Shiva IV, the ship is damaged by a space mine. Chedaki is killed in the explosion and Leia is forced to launch the damaged shuttle in order to protect the ship and the rest of the crew from harm. The shuttle crashes on Shiva IV and Leia is immediately attacked by a savage raiding party. A group of natives led by Aron Peacebringer and Kéral Longknife repel the raiders and rescue the princess. Leia returns to the capital Illÿriaqum with Aron, and tries to warn him of the danger that the Galactic Empire poses, but the warlord is not convinced that such an empire exists. But during a gala of Calian nobility, Aron and Leia are both secretly captured by Imperial stormtroopers and brought before General Sk'ar as prisoners.

Star Wars #54: Starfire Rising

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On the planet, Shiva IV, General Sk'ar captures Aron Peacebringer and Princess Leia. As the two heroes struggle against their bonds, Aron discovers that his own protégé, Ygal Delois, has turned traitor and joined forces with Sk’ar. Delois describes the General’s plan to wipe out the Calian Confederacy with an anti-matter bomb. Sk’ar orders Aron and Leia moved to a holding cell. Once there, Leia turns against the guard and kills him. Aron breaks free of his own bonds and the two sneak out of the containment block and steal an air-ship.

Aron and Leia fly toward General Sk’ar’s battle cruiser. Sk’ar sends out a squad of TIE Fighters to bring the Rebels down. The Princess takes down the assailants. Their ship suffers damage, however, and they are forced to crash on the lower decks of Sk’ar’s cruiser. Aron and Leia leap out and begin fighting Imperial stormtroopers.

Before long, Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca, Lando Calrissian, and Kéral Longknife arrive to lend a hand. While the others fight the Imperials, Leia searches the ship for Sk’ar’s anti-matter bomb. She begins defusing the bomb, while Lando confronts Sk’ar directly. He fires his blaster at him, but the shots bounce off Sk’ar’s personal force field. Sk’ar retreats and begins escaping aboard a small shuttle. Chewbacca grabs a discarded gun mount and hurls it at the escape craft. The ship explodes and Sk’ar dies. Meanwhile, Leia successfully deactivates the anti-matter bomb.

Everyone returns to the Calian capital city of Illÿriaqum for a celebration. During the festivities, C-3PO informs Leia that an Imperial Star Destroyer is fast approaching Shiva IV looking for retaliation. The heroes jump into the Millennium Falcon and plot an intercept course. They bait the Star Destroyer into following them towards the outer edges of a black hole. Luke uses the Force to guide the Millennium Falcon safely around the perimeter, but the larger Star Destroyer cannot decelerate in time. The ship plods directly into the black hole and is destroyed.

Star Wars #55: Plif

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Princess Leia Organa leads a survey team to the forest planet known as Arbra. It is her hope to establish a permanent Rebel Alliance base of operations after having been forced to evacuate their previous outpost on Hoth. Leia’s crew discover that the woods are inhabited by small, telepathic, rodent-like creatures known as Hoojibs. The Hoojibs feed off electricity, so during the evening, they scamper around the survey camp, draining all of the power away from the Rebels’ equipment and weaponry. The following morning, Princess Leia encounters a Hoojib named Plif—the spokesmind for the entire Hoojib population. Plif explains that the Hoojibs thrive off electrical radiation and that they typically feed from a trove of geothermal crystals located in a nearby cave. However, they had recently been forced to abandon the cave due to the presence of a large, flying creature known as a Slivilith. Leia agrees to help Plif oust the Slivilith so that the Hoojibs can regain their food source and stop draining resources from the rebels.

The Slivilith flies downward into the survey camp and begins attacking the rebels. The officers are practically powerless due to the fact that their blasters no longer hold a charge. They herd the creature back towards its nesting grotto and keep it at bay by way of non-energy based melee weapons such as lances and pole arms. Chewbacca the Wookiee manages to grab the Slivilith by its tentacles and smash it down upon the power rod crystals, killing it. Grateful for their assistance, Plif volunteers to share the environs of Arbra with the Rebel Alliance. Leia reports back to the fleet that they have found a new permanent base of operations.

Meanwhile, Luke Skywalker has a conversation with Lando Calrissian. Lando has had concerns about the state of affairs in Cloud City on the planet Bespin ever since he voluntarily abdicated his position as Baron Administrator. Taking the Millennium Falcon, Lando excuses himself from the fleet and returns to Cloud City.

Star Wars #56: Coffin in the Clouds

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Lando Calrissian returns to Cloud City only to find that it appears to have been completely abandoned. He soon discovers Imperial bombtroopers arriving to disarm a series of talking bombs left behind by disgruntled Ugnaught workers. The Imperials attempt to disarm the first bomb and the bomb itself appears to be helping them, but instead tricks them into arming the explosive mechanism rather than disarming it. The charge explodes, leaving Captain Hugo Treece, the acting governor of Cloud City, the only surviving Imperial. Calrissian and Treece agree to a truce in order to recover Lobot, who was critically damaged by the Ugnaughts, and have him deactivate the remaining bombs left on Cloud City before the entire city is destroyed. Their plan works, but as soon as the rest of the bombs are disarmed Treece turns on Lando and shoves him through the railing bordering Cloud City where he falls towards the planet Bespin below.

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Star Wars #57: Hello, Bespin, Goodbye

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The Imperial administrator of Cloud City, Captain Hugo Treece, kicks Lando Calrissian off of the edge of the city's rotunda. Lando begins falling through the Tibanna gas clouds – to his death. His former aide, Lobot, dons a life-jet and dives off of the edge of Cloud City to retrieve his friend. He catches up to Lando and brings him safely down to the artificial marsh islet of Ugnorgrad – city of the Ugnaughts.

An Ugnaught Holonet crew led by Ars Fivvle and his camera man, Pordy, film every moment of Lando's descent. They are broadcasting the event as part of their news program, Action Tidings.

Within minutes Imperial Stormtroopers raid the Action Tidings Floatboat caravan. The Ugnaughts race about the boat desperate to forage as much weaponry as they can possibly find. Lando uses the belt drive from one of the caravan ships as a sling and catapults a reel of camera film into the Imperial skimmer's fan, causing it to explode.

On Cloud City, Luke Skywalker, R2-D2 and Shira Brie land their X-wing fighters on one of the platforms. They notice that the city is completely deserted. Luke has R2 plug into the central computer in order to determine what caused the evacuation. They discover that an Ugnaught uprising has taken place in the mining facilities and they have planted talking bombs all throughout the city. As of yet, none of the bombs have been detonated (thanks to the efforts of Lobot). Captain Treece discovers them and orders a squad of Stormtroopers to open fire on Luke.

Meanwhile, Ars Fivvle takes Lando to see the Ugnaught leader, King Ozz. Ozz tells Lando that Captain Treece turned Cloud City into an Ugnaught slave labor camp. This was the reason the disgruntled workers planted the bombs and abandoned the mining facility. Lando is disgusted to learn of this and promises to help King Ozz overthrow Captain Treece.

Imperial troop transports land on Cloud City and a new swathe of Stormtroopers begin firing at Luke and Shira. Lando, Lobot and the Ugnaughts arrive and join in the fight. Captain Treece shoots Lobot, but it is a glancing shot and the cyborg suffers no real damage.

Luke uses the Force to detonate the primer switches on all of the bombs throughout the city. The spectacle is enough to make everyone believe that he had actually detonated the bombs themselves. The ruse works and Captain Treece and the Stormtroopers retreat from Cloud City.

After the Rebels make sure that Cloud City is clean of Imperial influence, Lando has Lobot hack into Treece's illegal bank account on Aargau. He transmits a record of stolen funds from Treece's account to the private account of Darth Vader.

Star Wars #58: Sundown

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Luke Skywalker, Lando Calrissian, and Chewbacca blast off of the planet Arbra in the Millennium Falcon. They enter hyperspace en route to meet a seedy merchant named Orion Ferret at a space station known as Bazarre.

Meanwhile, Princess Leia rejoins the Rebel fleet stationed above Arbra. She embarks upon a bold maneuver with which to conceal the fleet’s location from the prying eyes of Imperial scouts. Using a device known as a Kerts-Bhrg generator, the Rebels construct a large, pyramid-shaped force field that envelops the entire fleet. They move the ships within the corona of Arbra's sun, secure in the notion that the field generator will protect them from the deadly ultraviolet rays.

Princess Leia boards a shuttle craft to return to the planet's surface. Moments later, she discovers that the Kerts-Bhrg generators have malfunctioned. An absorption circuit within the cone of the control generator overloads flooding the maintenance bay with noxious fumes. All of the service personnel pass out from the chemicals. The only ones unaffected are the droids, C-3PO and R2-D2. In order to save the fleet, the droids space-walk between the control generator and one of the star cruisers. They run a conduit cable into the Kerts-Bhrg generator and stabilize the fluctating power levels. After the near-disaster, C-3PO contacts Princess Leia and provides an update on the crisis.

Meanwhile, the Millennium Falcon emerges from lightspeed and arrives at the space station known as Bazarre.

Star Wars #59: Bazarre

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Lando Calrissian and Luke Skywalker arrive at the gigantic merchant station known as Bazarre, where they meet with a shifty administrator named Orion Ferret. Lando has had dealings with Ferret in the past and does not trust him. However, they need Ferret’s connections in order to secure a purchase of four black market Imperial TIE fighters. After receiving his payment, Ferret gives Luke and Lando a small shuttle-craft as well as coordinates for a planet known as Patch-4. Patch-4 is a garbage world and it is here that the TIE fighters have been secreted away. Luke and Lando leave Chewbacca on Bazarre while they fly the shuttle to the planet of trash.

With Luke and Lando off the station, Orion attempts to sabotage the Rebels’ mission. Ferret is greedy and believes that if he kills Luke and Lando, he not only gets to keep his money and his ships, but he also gets to keep the Millennium Falcon. Knowing that Chewbacca will harm him if he discovers the double-cross, he attempts to imprison the Wookiee inside of a gelationus spritzer solution. Chewbacca escapes and begins chasing Orion all throughout the station. Orion attempts to flee inside of his personal shuttle, but Chewbacca destroys it with a few well-placed shots from his bowcaster.

Back on Patch-4. Luke and Lando begin sifting through the wreckage and eventually come upon the half-buried TIE fighters. Suddenly, a large worm-like creature known as a Watchbeast bursts through the ground and begins attacking them. Luke and Lando retreat into a cave that leads into an immense underground network of tunnels. Here they meet, Serja Kesselrook – a homeless nomad. Serja invites them inside and introduces them to an entire colony of degenerates who have remarkably found a way to make Patch-4 their home. Serja tells the Rebels that the Watchbeast (whose name is Caesar) belongs to Orion Ferret. Ferret controls the beast by way of a sonic pacifier located on the shuttle-craft.

Luke and Lando return to the surface. Lando distracts the Watchbeast with blaster fire, allowing Luke the ability to sneak past it and get back to the shuttle. Retrieving the pacifier, Luke activates it causing the Watchbeast to fall asleep. With nothing left to disrupt their mission, they pick up Chewbacca and bring the four TIE fighters back to the Rebel base on Arbra.

Star Wars #60: Shira's Story

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Members of Rogue Squadron pilot four TIE fighter ships and infiltrate the Imperial outpost on the planet, Spindrift. Swooping down, they begin strafing the command towers. An Imperial Major and his underling, Gerdy, attempt to flee in a sub-ter rover transport. They manage to get halfway across a suspension bridge, when one of the TIE fighters destroys the end of the bridge. Gerdy and the Major have no choice but to surrender. They are shocked to discover that the pilots of the TIE fighters are none other than the Rebel Alliance officers, Luke Skywalker, Captain Hanc Thorben, Shira Brie, Gemmer and Wald. After securing the base, Captain Thorben retrieves a set of route coordinates for a new Imperial armada. Rogue Squadron then returns to the Rebel base on the planet, Arbra.

Back at the base, Shira Brie informs Princess Leia that she needs to return to her home world, Shalyvane, on a personal matter. She asks Leia for the return coordinates, so that she’ll be able to come back after she is done taking care of business. Leia cites that the base coordinates are top secret and that she cannot reveal them to her. Luke volunteers to accompany Shira and takes responsibility for bringing her back. Thorben and Wald agree to go with them.

Arriving on Shalyvane, Shira heads to the Circle of Kavaan in the capital city of Chinshassa. Shira tells a story about how her people were wiped out by the savage tribes of the Em'liy when she was a little girl. After completing her tale of woe, a horde of Em’liy warriors appear over the horizon. The Rebels engage in a massive firefight and lay waste to the religious stones surrounding the Circle of Kavaan. The Em’liy keep Luke and the others pinned down with blaster fire, but Shira manages to circle around the war-zone and board her TIE fighter. She swings the fighter back around and decimates the Em’liy warriors. After the dust settles, everyone gets back into their fighters and heads back towards Arbra. Shria never reveals the true nature of her visit to Shalyvane.

Star Wars #61: Screams in the Void

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An Imperial armada led by Admiral Mils Giel's flagship is transporting a captured Teezl to the Imperial capital. The Empire intends to use the Teezl's special communication abilities to allow instantaneous communication between Imperials throughout the galaxy. The Rebel Alliance knows about their plans and have devised a scheme to foil them, using specially modified TIE fighters to attack the Imperial armada.

Four Rebel pilots, Luke Skywalker, Shira Brie, Hanc Thorben, and Alph, pose as a returning Imperial patrol to bypass the sentries and attack the Star Destroyers causing confusion in their ranks. Giel orders to have the Teezl disrupt all communication frequencies except for the Imperial war band, preventing the Rebel intruders from talking with each other on their modified frequency. Luke finds the flagship where the Teezl is located, but there is a TIE fighter in his line of fire. Unable to use his communication device to detect whether the fighter is a friendly, Luke calls upon the Force to be his guide, and he determines that the fighter is an enemy. He destroys the fighter and then proceeds to fire upon the ship which houses the Teezl, disabling it and destroying the Teezl.

Luke returns to the Rebel base on Arbra to discover that Thorben brought back a visual recording of Luke's battle with the last TIE fighter, and from that recording they discovered that the pilot of the TIE that Luke destroyed was fellow Rebel Shira Brie.

Star Wars #62: Pariah

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The news of Shira Brie's death reverberates throughout Salvation. Luke Skywalker is beside himself with grief and feels as if the Force has betrayed him, in allowing him to open fire on Shira's fighter. The Rebel Alliance personnel at the base look down upon Luke for his poor misjudgment. One of them, a belligerent soldier named Milo Fourstar accuses Luke of deliberately killing Shira because she rejected his amorous advances.

Luke goes down to the hangar bay where he finds Lando Calrissian standing outside the ramp of the Millennium Falcon. He tells Lando that he needs to use the Falcon to return to Shira's homeworld, Shalyvane. He needs to see if there are any clues left behind that could shed some light on this mystery. Lando is under orders to deny any such requests, but with a wink in his eye, he lets Luke know that the Falcon will be unguarded for fifteen minutes.

Luke and Chewbacca take the Falcon and fly to Shalyvane. They land at the capital city of Chinshassa – Shira's alleged home town. Almost immediately, a band of Em'liy warriors descend upon them and begin attacking. They run away and hide inside of an underground warren. There, Luke finds an injured old Em'liy named G'hinji. G'hinji explains that Chinshassa has never boasted a Human settlement and that anything Shira may have told him to the contrary has to be a lie. Luke is no closer to solving the mystery of Shira's identity than he was before. Suddenly, he remembers a bloodletting ritual he witnessed Shira partaking in once at the Circle of Kavaan. He races down to the ruins of the circle in the hopes that repeating the procedure might yield some clue as to Shira's background. Borrowing a knife from Chewbacca, Luke slices open the palm of his left hand and lets the blood drip down onto the ruined cairns. Within seconds, there is a brilliant flash of light and Luke, Chewbacca and G'hinji are surprised to find Darth Vader standing before them.

Star Wars #63: The Mind Spider

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On the planet Shalyvane, Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca and the Em'liy known as G'hinji stand before the visage of Darth Vader. They immediately go on the defensive until they realize that the image of Vader is merely a holographic recording. Vader tells Luke that his late friend, the Rebel pilot known as Shira Brie was actually an Imperial spy. Luke cannot believe his ears. The holographic emitter explodes after delivering Vader's haunting message. Unsatisfied with the revelation, Luke and Chewbacca decide to go to the databank vault located on Krake's Planet.

Later, on board the Executor, Vader meets with Admiral Mils Giel. Giel has recently failed to secure a rare creature known as a Teezl – a non-sentient alien that could have provided the Empire a tremendous advantage over the Rebels. Vader respects Giel's integrity though, so rather than kill him, he demotes him to the rank of lieutenant.

Meanwhile, Luke and Chewbacca arrive on Krake's Planet. They infiltrate the Krake Data Vault – a facility built from the mass of a giant Mind Spider. Luke goes to the kitchen area and tricks an Imperial officer into downloading information from one of the computer banks. He discovers that Vader had told him the truth. Shira Brie was born on Coruscant and genetically raised to be a perfect spy. By the time she was an adult, Vader personally selected her to act in the role of an Emperor's Hand. Although he is crushed, Luke can take some small satisfaction from the fact that the Force didn't betray him when it indicated that Shira was an enemy.

A squad of stormtroopers burst into the kitchen and begin firing at Skywalker. Luke manages to use one of the troopers as a Human shield and shoots the remaining soldiers. He regroups with Chewbacca and they hop into the Millennium Falcon. Chewbacca uses the Falcon's deflector screens to destroy the military outpost.

Meanwhile, deep in the bowels of the Executor, Darth Vader enters a special medical bay. Floating inside of a bacta tank is the barely-alive body of Shira Brie.

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