Star Wars #19

Name: Star Wars #19
Brand: Dark Horse
Availability: InStock

Jun 2000 · Dark Horse · 2.95 USD; 4.50 CAD

📊 ~95,156 copies sold its debut month

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“Twilight, Part 1 of 4”

★ 1st appearance — Aayla Secura

About this Issue

Star Wars #19 (Dark Horse, June 2000) marks the debut of Aayla Secura, a blue-skinned Twi'lek Jedi who became the first comics-originated character to successfully cross over into a Star Wars theatrical film — appearing in both Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005). The issue also opens 'Twilight,' the four-part arc that formally installed Quinlan Vos as the central figure of Dark Horse's ongoing Star Wars line, transforming a nameless background extra from The Phantom Menace into one of the Expanded Universe's most narratively complex Jedi — a morally ambiguous amnesiac who would anchor the series for years. Together with the scene-stealing Devaronian opportunist Vilmarh Grahrk, these three characters seeded a web of storylines that ran through dozens of subsequent issues and collected editions. The issue therefore sits at the creative hinge-point where Dark Horse's prequel-era Star Wars storytelling shifted from an anthology-style approach toward a sustained, character-driven serialized narrative.

writer John Ostrander · artist Jan Duursema · inker Rick Magyar · colorist Dave McCaig · letterer Steve Dutro · cover Jan Duursema

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History

Writer John Ostrander and artist Jan Duursema — a long-standing creative partnership dating back to their DC work on Hawkworld — were handed the Star Wars ongoing series and used 'Twilight' to pivot the book toward their own original characters. Ostrander built Quinlan Vos by expanding on a face-painted, unnamed figure briefly visible on the streets of Mos Espa in The Phantom Menace, scripting him as an amnesiac Jedi thrown together with the roguish Villie on the moon of Nar Shaddaa. Aayla Secura was conceived by the Ostrander/Duursema team as Vos's missing Padawan, a Twi'lek from Ryloth who had herself suffered a memory-wipe. The issue's editorial credits reflect the Lucas Licensing collaboration that governed all Dark Horse Star Wars content at the time, with acknowledgments to Lucas Licensing representatives Allan Kausch and Lucy Autrey Wilson.

Trivia · 8 facts

First appearance of Aayla Secura, a Twi'lek Jedi Padawan and apprentice of Quinlan Vos, created by writer John Ostrander and artist Jan Duursema.
First cover appearance of Quinlan Vos; his in-story debut had occurred two issues earlier in Star Wars #17 (April 2000).
First appearance of Vilmarh Grahrk ('Villie'), a scheming Devaronian smuggler who becomes a recurring anti-heroic foil to Vos throughout the series.
Published June 28, 2000 by Dark Horse Comics; titled 'Twilight, Part 1 of 4' — the story is set approximately 30 years before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope.
Aayla Secura later became the first character created in comics to appear in a Star Wars theatrical film, played by actress Amy Allen in Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) and Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005).
The issue has been reprinted multiple times: in the Star Wars: Twilight trade paperback (Dark Horse, 2001), the Dark Horse Star Wars Comic Pack #7 (August 2006), the Star Wars Omnibus: Quinlan Vos — Jedi in Darkness (Dark Horse, December 2010), and the Marvel Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Menace Revealed Vol. 2 (2019).
Pencils, inks, and cover art by Jan Duursema; colors by Dan Jackson; edited by Dave Land with assistant editor Michael Carriglitto.
The 'Twilight' arc introduces the core premise that both Vos and Aayla have had their memories erased during a mission — a plot device that drives much of the Quinlan Vos storyline for the remainder of the Dark Horse run.