When did Dark Horse Comics launch Star Wars Tales?
Dark Horse Comics launched Star Wars Tales on the 29th of September 1999. The series ran for six years and concluded its final issue on the 13th of July 2005.
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Dark Horse Comics launched Star Wars Tales on the 29th of September 1999. The series ran for six years and concluded its final issue on the 13th of July 2005.
The collection spanned twenty-four individual issues before ending. Issues numbered one through twenty received a retroactive designation as Infinities stories while stories from issue number twenty-one onwards remained part of the main continuity unless explicitly marked otherwise.
Craig Thompson created a four-page story titled What They Called Me with no dialogue. His distinct visual style appeared on page three of issue five within the anthology format.
Mace Windu appears as the central figure in every story within issue thirteen while Boba Fett undergoes training missions under Jango Fett on the planet Kuat during Galactic Year 23 BBY. Han Solo tracks Chewbacca across a junkyard moon near Raxus Prime in Revenants and Jar Jar Binks causes his father George to commit suicide due to constant clumsiness in George R. Binks.
The entire Expanded Universe was declared non-canon by Lucasfilm in 2014. This decision affected all previous publications including this specific run and some stories like What They Called Me were labeled non-canon at the time of publication.