Star Wars (1977)

The Marvel Star Wars series of comic books was the first ever comic series created for Star Wars. It spanned 107 issues, with three special Annual issues. The series was relatively long-running, lasting from 1977 to 1986. It was published by Marvel Comics. The series was such a smash hit for Marvel in an otherwise dismal sales year that many who worked at Marvel in 1977 consider it to have singlehandedly saved them from financial ruin.

Issues 1–6 adapted the events of A New Hope and Issues 39–44 adapted The Empire Strikes Back; however, the Return of the Jedi adaptation was published as a separate four-issue mini-series outside of the regular series.

Marvel Illustrated Books' Star Wars, Star Wars 2: World of Fire, and Classic Star Wars: Devilworlds 1 and 2 included additional stories published as part of the Marvel UK Star Wars series, which, due to running weekly, included additional stories. Death Masque wasn't printed in the US until its inclusion in Star Wars Omnibus: Wild Space Volume 1 in 2013.

Many issues of the regular series included a letter column titled Star-Words.

On May 29, 2019, Marvel released a special 108th issue of the series that continues the storyline that began in Star Wars (1977) 50.

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