Marvel Celebrates 'Star Wars' Milestone Anniversary With New Stories!
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A special anniversary is coming for Marvel Comics and its Star Wars pieces. January 2025 will mark a decade straight of Star Wars comics published, and to commemorate this event, the company will be releasing an anniversary one-shot! Titled Star Wars: A New Legacy, this piece will feature familiar characters while telling new stories, giving a variety of Star Wars fans something to look forward to. There’s a hefty amount of Empire lore being teased, from Imperial parties celebrating the Emperor to elaborating on the fate of Scar Squadron to even Sith artifacts causing trouble. The writers include Charles Soule, Jason Aaron, and Kieron Gillen, while the artists include Ramon Rosanas, Leonard Kirk, and Salva Espin. The primary cover artist is Steve McNiven. Star Wars: A New Legacy will be released on January 29, 2025.
Mark Paniccia, a senior editor at Marvel Comics, gave a statement regarding this anniversary event, "This is the monumental moment we’ve been waiting for: celebrating a decade of the re-union of Marvel Comics and Star Wars! We've got a great package here with some of the most influential Star Wars comic writers in recent history along with amazing art. It is so cool to spotlight as many of the Marvel-created characters as we could. Longtime and new fans alike will get a kick in the thrusters with this!"
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Marvel Comics first published a Star Wars piece in 1977, titled Marvel Special Edition Featuring Star Wars. The company published several comics throughout the late 70s through the 80s until the rights were acquired by Dark Horse Comics in 1991. Eventually, Marvel and Lucasfilm were both acquired by the Walt Disney Company. In 2015, the rights to Star Wars comic books were returned to Marvel Comics; the first canon series they released was in January of the same year, a reboot of the original series titled Star Wars. Initially, it was written by Jason Aaron, with art by John Cassaday.
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