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chronicled by Joe Bongiorno

 

The Era of Rebellion

Year 0 – The Battle of Yavin (0 BY) – to Year 4 After the Battle of Yavin (ABY)

 

 

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Shortly Before Episode IV: A New Hope

Death Star Technical Companion (West End Games)

    Grand Moff Tarkin's Data Journal: Chapter One: A Brief History of the Death Star

        Personal Data Journal Entry #572

        Personal Data Journal Entry #574

Empire (Dark Horse)

    #9: Darklighter (pages 19–end; trade pb: pages 87–90)

    #10–11: The Short, Happy Life of Roons Sewell (trade pb: pages 90–end)

        [Issues 9–11 collected as the backup feature in Empire Volume Two: Darklighter and 30th Anniversary Collection Volume 7]

X-wing: The Farlander Papers (Lucasarts: X-Wing; expanded in X-Wing: The Official Strategy Guide; Prima)

Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire (chapters 5–7) (Dark Horse/ Boulevard; encompasses Dark Forces: Mission I: Lucasarts home video game )

Tales #9: Resurrection (Dark Horse: collected in Tales Volume 3)

Death Star Technical Companion (West End Games)

    Grand Moff Tarkin's Data Journal: Chapter One: A Brief History of the Death Star

        Personal Data Journal Entry #612

The Lost Jedi: Book 1: Jedi Dawn (Boxtree Adventure Game Book, UK)

Spero's Flight (Shadows of the Empire Sourcebook: Chapter Four: The Fringe)

Star Wars: The Original Radio Drama: Episode 2: Points of Origin (1st half) (National Public Radio)

Empire #5: Princess...Warrior (pages 1-12 coterminous with the story above) (Dark Horse: collected in Empire Volume 4: The Heart of the Rebellion and Hamilton's Graphic Novel Library 1: Seeds of Rebellion)

Empire #6: Princess...Warrior (Dark Horse: collected in Empire Volume 4: The Heart of the Rebellion and Hamilton's Graphic Novel Library 1: Seeds of Rebellion)

The Han Solo Trilogy: Volume #3: Rebel Dawn (chapter 16, pg. 382 – end of chapter; SFBC: 768, 2nd section – end of chapter) (Bantam)

Star Wars: The Original Radio Drama: Episode 2: Points of Origin (2nd half) (National Public Radio)

Tales from the New Republic: Interlude at Darkknell (Bantam)

Empire #8: Darklighter (pages 17–end; trade pb: pages 18–22) (Dark Horse; collected in Empire Volume Two: Darklighter, 30th Anniversary Collection Volume 7 and Hamilton's Graphic Novel Library 1: Seeds of Rebellion)   

Star Wars: The Original Radio Drama: Episode 1: A Wind to Shake the Stars (National Public Radio)

Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina: A Hunter's Fate: Greedo's Tale (chapter 10, pg. 57, 2nd section – chapter end; SFBC: chapter 10, pg. 52, 2nd section – chapter end) (Bantam) webstrip #88–94)

Death Star (chapters 1–51) (Del Rey)

The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader (chapter 13: page 134) (Scholastic)  

 

0 BY

Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker (Del Rey; reprinted as Star Wars, Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope)

Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (Scholastic/Borders Exclusive)

Star Wars: The Original Radio Drama: Episodes 3-13 (National Public Radio/ The NPR Dramatization)

Star Wars (Marvel)

    #1: Star Wars

    #2: Six Against the Galaxy

    #3: Death Star

    #4: In Battle with Darth Vader

    #5: Lo, the Moons of Yavin

    #6: Is This the Final Chapter?

        [reprinted in Marvel Special Editions 1-3, Marvel Movie Showcase 1-2, A Long Time Ago... Volume 1: Doomworld; Dark Horse]

Marvel Illustrated Version: Star Wars

Classic Star Wars: A New Hope #1-2 (Dark Horse)

Death Star (chapters 52–end) (Del Rey)

The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader (chapters 14–16) (Scholastic)  

The Life and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi (Chapters 10–12) (Scholastic)

Journal (Scholastic)

    Captive to Evil

    The Fight for Justice

Star Wars: A New Hope (Manga) (Dark Horse)

Star Wars: A New Hope: Special Edition #1-4 (Dark Horse: collected in trade paperback and Hamilton's Graphic Novel Library 1: Seeds of Rebellion)

Clone Wars Adventures: Volume 2: Skywalkers (Dark Horse)

Choose Your Own Star Wars Adventure: A New Hope (Bantam/Skylark)

Droids #6-8 (Star Comics)

 

During and Shortly After Episode IV: A New Hope

The Han Solo Trilogy: Volume #3: Rebel Dawn (epilogue) (Bantam)

Empire (Dark Horse)

    #9: Darklighter (pages 1–18; trade pb: pages 23–40)

    #12: Darklighter

        [Issues 9 and 12 collected in Empire Volume Two: Darklighter, 30th Anniversary Collection Volume 7 and Hamilton's Graphic Novel Library 1: Seeds of Rebellion]

X-wing Rogue Squadron #½ (Dark Horse; collected in X-wing Rogue Squadron: Requiem for a Rogue and Omnibus: X-Wing Rogue Squadron, volume 2)

Empire #15: Darklighter (trade pb: pages 63–84: end of section) (Dark Horse; collected in Empire Volume Two: Darklighter, 30th Anniversary Collection Volume 7 and Hamilton's Graphic Novel Library 1: Seeds of Rebellion)

Tales #10: Trooper (Dark Horse: collected in Tales Volume 3 and Hamilton's Graphic Novel Library 1: Seeds of Rebellion)

Imperial Troop Transport (Kenner booklet)

The Mos Eisley Cantina Pop-Up Book (Little, Brown & Company)

Cantina Communications (Hyperspace: Official Poster Monthly #16)

Artoo's Tale (Galaxy Guide I: A New Hope; The Movie Trilogy Sourcebook; West End Games)

The Tatooine Debriefing (Galaxy Guide I: A New Hope; The Movie Trilogy Sourcebook; West End Games)

Tales 12: Once Bitten (Dark Horse: collected in Tales Volume 3)

Imperial Spin (Hyperspace; The Imperial Sourcebook: West End Games)

    During this Time of Crisis...

    No Longer of Any Concern...

Empire #13: What Sin Loyalty? (Dark Horse; collected in Empire Volume 3: The Imperial Perspective and Hamilton's Graphic Novel Library 1: Seeds of Rebellion)

One that Got Away (Galaxy Guide I: A New Hope; The Movie Trilogy Sourcebook; West End Games)

Double Vision (Galaxy Guide I: A New Hope; The Movie Trilogy Sourcebook; West End Games)

Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina (Bantam)

    Drawing the Maps of Peace: The Moisture Farmer's Tale

    We Don't Do Weddings: The Band's Tale

    Empire Blues: the Devaronian's Tale

    Hammertong: The Tale of the "Tonnika Sisters"

    Play it Again Figrin D'an: The Tale of Muftak and Kabe

    The Sand Tender: The Hammerhead's Tale

    A Hunter's Fate: Greedo's Tale (chapter 11) ( webstrip #95–103)

    Be Still My Heart: The Bartender's Tale

    Soup's On: The Pipesmoker's Tale

    Nightlily: The Lover's Tale

    Swap Meet: The Jawa's Tale

Adventure Journal #11: Spare Parts (West End Games; Hyperspace)

Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina (Bantam)

   Trade Winds: The Ranat's Tale

    When the Desert Winds Turn: The Stormtrooper's Tale

    At the Crossroads: The Spacer's Tale

The Star Wars Sourcebook (West End Games)

    Chapter Eight: Life in a Jawa Sandcrawler (flashback)

    Chapter Fifteen: Their Fire Has Gone Out of the Galaxy

Dodonna's Story (Galaxy Guide I: A New Hope; The Movie Trilogy Sourcebook; West End Games)

The Letter Home (Hyperspace; Galaxy Guide I: A New Hope; The Movie Trilogy Sourcebook; West End Games)

 

Circa Episode IV: A New Hope

Adventure Journal #3: Changing the Odds (West End Games)

 

0 ABY (Zero Year)

0-6 months after Episode IV: A New Hope

Empire #14: The Savage Heart (pages 1–2) (Dark Horse: collected in Empire Volume 3: The Imperial Perspective and Hamilton's Graphic Novel Library 1: Seeds of Rebellion)

Star Wars: The Day after the Death Star (Marvel Illustrated Book: Four New Adventures in Full Color; collected in Luke Skywalker: Last Hope for the Galaxy)

Star Wars Missions (Scholastic)

    #1: Assault on Yavin Four

    #2: Escape from Thyferra

    #3: Attack on Delrakkin

    #4: Destroy the Liquidator

Pizzazz (Marvel magazine)

    The Keeper's World

        #1: The Keeper's World

        #2: The Keeper's World

        #3: Dread Discovery

        #4: A Matter of Monsters

        #5: Pursuit Among the Ruins

        #6: Do You Know What Your Children Are?

        #7: Cavern of Mystery

        #8: The Keeper's Secret
        #9: The Final Fury

            [issues 1-9 reprinted  in Star Wars #0; Dark Horse]

    War on Ice

        #10: Kingdom of Ice

        #11: The Snow Demons

        #12: Treachery

        #13: Death Trap

        #14: Snow Fury

        #15: The Ice Worm Cometh

        #16: Showdown

War on Ice (conclusion to Pizzazz #16) (Marvel Illustrated Book: Four New Adventures in Full Color; Marvel Star Wars UK #60: Pursuit)

The Star Wars Sourcebook (West End Games)

    Chapter Fifteen: Heroes and Villains

Star Wars (Marvel)

    #50: The Crimson Forever (Chapter II: Rage in the Red Nebula) (flashback) (collected in A Long Time Ago... Volume 3: Resurrection of Evil; Dark Horse)

    #7: New Planets, New Perils (collected in A Long Time Ago... Volume 1: Doomworld; Dark Horse)

Star Wars Newspaper Strip: Tatooine Sojourn (webstrip; reformatted in Classic Star Wars: The Early Adventures #4; Dark Horse)

    [collected in Classic Star Wars: The Early Adventures: Part 4]

Empire #16-18: To the Last Man (collected in Empire Volume 3: The Imperial Perspective; Dark Horse)

Star Wars (Marvel)

    #8: Eight for Aduba-3  

    #9: Showdown on a Wasteland World

    #10: Behemoth from the World Below

    #11: Star Search!

    #12: Doomworld

    #13: Day of the Dragon Lords

    #14: The Sound of Armageddon

    #15: Star Duel

        [Issues 8-15 collected in A Long Time Ago... Volume 1; Dark Horse)

    #24: Silent Drifting

        [collected in A Long Time Ago... Volume 2: Dark Encounters; Dark Horse]

    #16: The Hunter

    #17: Crucible

        [Issues 16-17collected in A Long Time Ago... Volume 1: Doomworld and Luke Skywalker: Last Hope for the Galaxy; Dark Horse]

Star Wars Kids (Scholastic magazine)

    #1–5: The Rebel Thief (to page 3, panel 4)

    #6–10: X-wing Marks the Spot

Empire #14: The Savage Heart (pages 3–end) (Dark Horse: collected in Empire Volume 3: The Imperial Perspective and Hamilton's Graphic Novel Library 1: Seeds of Rebellion)

Star Wars (Marvel)

    #18: The Empire Strikes

    #19: The Ultimate Gamble

    #20: Deathgame

        [Issues 18-20 collected in A Long Time Ago... Volume 1; Dark Horse)

    #21: Shadow of a Dark Lord

    #22: To The Last Gladiator

    #23: Flight Into Fury

        [Issues 21-23 collected in A Long Time Ago... Volume 2: Dark Encounters; Dark Horse]

Empire #7: Sacrifice (collected in Boba Fett: Man with a Mission; Dark Horse)

The Star Wars Sourcebook (West End Games)

    Chapter Fifteen: Balancing the Books (Hyperspace)

    Imperial Communique #44582.15k

Star Wars (Marvel)

    #25: Siege at Yavin

    #26: Doom Mission

    #27: Return of the Hunter

    #28: What Ever Happened to Jabba the Hut?

    #29: Dark Encounter

    #30: A Princess Alone

    #31: Return to Tatooine

    #32: The Jawa Express

    #33: Saber Clash

    #34: Thunder in the Stars

        [Issues 25-34 collected in A Long Time Ago... Volume 2: Dark Encounters; Dark Horse]

Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina: Doctor Death: The Tale of Dr. Evazan and Ponda Baba (Bantam)

Tales from Jabba's Palace: A Bad Feeling: The Tale of EV-9D9 (pg. 268 to 274, par. 1; SFBC: pg. 747 to 751, par. 3) (Bantam)

Science Adventures (Scholastic)

    #1: Emergency in Escape Pod Four

    #2: Journey across Planet X

Jedi's Honor: A Solitaire Adventure (West End Games)

Imperial Communique #87341.36a (The Star Wars Sourcebook: Chapter Fifteen; West End Games)

Star Wars Missions (Scholastic)

    #9: Revolt of the Battle Droids

    #10: Showdown in Mos Eisley

    #11: Bounty Hunters vs. Battle Droids

    #12: The Vactooine Disaster

Crossing the Dark Lord (Galaxy Guide I: A New Hope; The Movie Trilogy Sourcebook; West End Games)Star Wars (Marvel)

Star Wars Missions (Scholastic)

    #17: Darth Vader’s Return

    #18: Rogue Squadron to the Rescue

    #19: Bounty on Bonadan

    #20: Total Destruction

Galaxy of Fear (Bantam)

    #1: Eaten Alive

    #2: City of the Dead

    #3: Planet Plague

    #4: The Nightmare Machine

    #5: Ghost of the Jedi

    #6: Army of Terror

    #7: The Brain Spiders

    #8: The Swarm

    #9: Spore

    #10: The Doomsday Ship

    #11: Clones

    #12: The Hunger

Tales #3: Lady Luck (Dark Horse: collected in Tales Volume 1)

Star Wars Newspaper Strip

    The Second Kessel Run (webstrip; reformatted in Classic Star Wars: The Early Adventures #6; Dark Horse)

        [Collected in Classic Star Wars: Volume 4: The Early Adventures: Part 6]

Star Wars Newspaper Strips (Originally collected in Star Wars: Volumes 1-3; Russ Cochran)

    The Bounty Hunter of Ord Mantell (webstrip)

    Darth Vader Strikes (webstrip)

    The Serpent Masters (webstrip)

    Deadly Reunion (webstrip)

    Traitor's Gambit (webstrip)

        [Reformatted in Classic Star Wars 1-8; collected in Classic Star Wars: Volume One, re-titled In Deadly Pursuit and Classic Star Wars: Volume Two: The Rebel Storm]

    The Night Beast (webstrip)

        [Reformatted in Classic Star Wars 8-9; collected in Classic Star Wars: Volume Two: The Rebel Storm]

    The Return of Ben Kenobi (webstrip; also collected in Luke Skywalker: Last Hope for the Galaxy)

Vader's Quest #1 (pages 1-3) (Dark Horse: collected in Vader's Quest, Omnibus: Early Victories and Hamilton's Graphic Novel Library 1: Seeds of Rebellion)

Star Wars #35: Dark Lord's Gambit (page 1) (Marvel; collected in A Long Time Ago... Volume 2: Dark Encounters; Dark Horse)

Vader's Quest #1 (pages 4-20) (Dark Horse: collected in Vader's Quest, Omnibus: Early Victories and Hamilton's Graphic Novel Library 1: Seeds of Rebellion)

Star Wars #35: Dark Lord's Gambit (page 2) (Marvel; collected in A Long Time Ago... Volume 2: Dark Encounters; Dark Horse)

Vader's Quest #1 (page 21-end) (Dark Horse: collected in Vader's Quest, Omnibus: Early Victories and Hamilton's Graphic Novel Library 1: Seeds of Rebellion)

Classic Star Wars: Devilworlds #2: Tilotny Throws a Shape (Dark Horse/ Marvel Star Wars UK #154)

Star Wars #35: Dark Lord's Gambit (pages 3-11, panel 3; trade pb: pages 3-7, panel 3) (Marvel; collected in A Long Time Ago...Volume 2: Dark Encounters; Dark Horse)

Vader's Quest #2-4 (Dark Horse: collected in Vader's Quest, Omnibus: Early Victories and Hamilton's Graphic Novel Library 1: Seeds of Rebellion)

Star Wars #70: The Stenax Shuffle (flashback) (Marvel; collected in A Long Time Ago... Volume 5: Fool's Bounty; Dark Horse)

Star Wars Annual #1: The Long Hunt/A Duel of Eagles (Marvel)

        [collected in A Long Time Ago... Volume 2: Dark Encounters; Dark Horse]

The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader (chapter 17: to page 164) (Scholastic)  

Shadow Stalker (Dark Horse; Star Wars Galaxy magazine #9-12; collected in Omnibus: Early Victories)

Star Wars (Marvel)

    #35: Dark Lord's Gambit (page 11, panel 4-end; trade pb.: page 299)

    #36: Red Queen Rising

    #37: In Mortal Combat (excluding epilogue)

        [Issues 35-37 collected in A Long Time Ago... Volume 2: Dark Encounters; Dark Horse]

Classic Star Wars: Devilworlds #1: Dark Lord's Conscience (Dark Horse; Marvel Star Wars UK #155)

World of Fire (Marvel Illustrated Books: Star Wars 2: World of Fire; Marvel Star Wars UK #107-115)

Star Wars Newspaper Strip

    Gambler's World (webstrip; reformatted in Classic Star Wars: The Early Adventures #1-3; Dark Horse)

        [Collected in Classic Star Wars: Volume 4: The Early Adventures: Parts 1-3]

Star Wars #37: In Mortal Combat (epilogue only) (Marvel; reprinted in A Long Time Ago... Volume 2: Dark Encounters; Dark Horse)

Star Wars Kids #5: The Rebel Thief (page 3, panel 5–end)

Lando Calrissian: Idiot’s Array (a Hyperspace exclusive short story)

Star Wars Newspaper Strips

    Princess Leia, Imperial Servant (webstrip; reformatted in Classic Star Wars: The Early Adventures #5; Dark Horse)

    Bring Me the Children (webstrip; reformatted in Classic Star Wars: The Early Adventures #7; Dark Horse)

    As Long as We Live (webstrip; reformatted in Classic Star Wars: The Early Adventures #8; Dark Horse)

    The Frozen World of Ota (webstrip; reformatted in Classic Star Wars: The Early Adventures #9; Dark Horse)

        [collected in Classic Star Wars: Volume 4: The Early Adventures: Parts 5, 7, 8 & 9; Dark Horse]

    Planet of Kadril (webstrip)

Graveyard of Alderaan (West End Games roleplaying adventure)

Star Wars 3D #1 (Blackthorne Publishing Inc., Blackthorne 3-D Series #30)

The Bounty Hunter Wars (Bantam)

    Book #1: The Mandalorian Armor (Flashback: chapters four–six, eight–eleven, fourteen–seventeen)

    Book #2: Slave Ship (Flashback: chapters five–eight, ten–twelve, fifteen)

    Book #3: Hard Merchandise (Flashback: chapters four–six)

Star Wars Newspaper Strips (Originally collected in Star Wars: Volumes 1-3; Russ Cochran)

    The Power Gem (webstrip)

    Iceworld (webstrip)

    Revenge of the Jedi (webstrip)

    Doom Mission

        [Reformatted in Classic Star Wars 10–14; collected in Classic Star Wars: Volume Two: The Rebel Storm]

   Race for Survival  (Classic Star Wars #16: to page 3, panel 1; Cochran edition: to page 399) 

        [Reformatted in Classic Star Wars 15–16; collected in Classic Star Wars: Volume Three: Escape to Hoth]

Star Wars Kids #16-20: Death Star Pirates (Scholastic magazine; reprinted in Tales #8; collected in Tales Volume 2; Dark Horse)

Star Wars Newspaper Strips (Originally collected in Star Wars: Volumes 1–3; Russ Cochran)

    Race for Survival (Classic Star Wars #16: page 3, panel 2 – end; Cochran edition: page 400 – end)

    The Paradise Detour

    A New Beginning

    Showdown

    The Final Trap 

        [Reformatted in Classic Star Wars 15–20; collected in Classic Star Wars: Volume Three: Escape to Hoth]

Imperial Spin: The Empire Strikes Back (Hyperspace; The Imperial Sourcebook: West End Games)

Adventure Journal #11 (West End Games)

    The Most Dangerous Foe (Hyperspace)