Palpatine

Palpatine is the calculating Senator-turned-Supreme Chancellor whose quiet manipulation of the Galactic Republic masks his true identity as Darth Sidious, a Dark Lord of the Sith orchestrating a galaxy-wide conflict to seize absolute power.

Few figures in the galaxy cast a longer shadow than Palpatine, the scheming political mastermind who made his comics debut in Dark Horse's Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones #1 in 2002. A Modern Age arrival, he's spent over two decades haunting the pages of Star Wars comics, sharing them with some of the saga's most iconic names — Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Mace Windu, R2-D2, and C-3PO among them. His catalog footprint may be modest at seven appearances, but the company he keeps speaks volumes about his place at the very center of the Star Wars universe. If you're building a serious Star Wars comics collection, Palpatine is one of those presences you simply can't ignore.