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Cover: Rick Hoberg & Tom Palmer

Star Wars #2

Name: Star Wars #2
Brand: Marvel
Availability: InStock

Aug 1977 · Marvel · 0.35 USD

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“Six Against the Galaxy”

About this Issue

Star Wars #2 delivers the first comic-book appearances of three of the saga's most durable characters — Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Obi-Wan Kenobi — making it one of the densest single issues for franchise-defining debuts in Bronze Age publishing. It also carries the peculiar distinction of presenting the very first visual depiction of Jabba the Hutt anywhere in licensed Star Wars media, albeit drawn as a bipedal walrus-faced alien because Thomas and Chaykin had no reference for the character's true appearance. The issue went on sale just fifteen days before the film itself reached theaters, meaning it served as many fans' first encounter with Han Solo and the Mos Eisley Cantina sequence. Alongside its predecessor, it became one of the most widely reprinted comics of the 1970s — a testament to how deeply the adaptation embedded itself in the pop-cultural moment the film created.

writer Roy Thomas · artist Howard Chaykin · inker, colorist Steve Leialoha · colorist Carl Gafford · letterer Tom Orzechowski · writer George Lucas · cover Rick Hoberg, Tom Palmer

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History

Roy Thomas was recruited to write the adaptation at George Lucas's request, with Lucas specifically also asking for Howard Chaykin as the artist; Chaykin was given access to Lucasfilm's offices on the Universal Studios lot to prepare. Stan Lee had initially declined the project but was persuaded to greenlight it in a 1976 meeting arranged by Thomas — reportedly upon learning that Alec Guinness was involved. Working from an early draft of the screenplay rather than final production materials, Thomas and Chaykin proceeded without a design description for Jabba, so Chaykin based the character's look on a background alien — later identified as Mosep Binneed — visible in the Mos Eisley cantina footage they had seen. The cover pencils, long attributed uncertainly to Chaykin, were later confirmed to have been drawn by Rick Hoberg and inked by Tom Palmer.

Trivia · 8 facts

Title: 'Six Against the Galaxy' — Part 2 of the six-issue adaptation of Star Wars: A New Hope.
First comic-book appearances of Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
First comic-book appearance of Greedo (who dies in the issue) and the first comic-book appearance of Mos Eisley and the Cantina.
First visual depiction of Jabba the Hutt in any licensed Star Wars medium — rendered as a bipedal alien (Mosep Binneed's likeness) because no character design was provided to Thomas and Chaykin; this version was later retroactively identified as Jabba's accountant Mosep Binneed.
Adapts the Docking Bay 94 Han-Jabba scene from the film's original screenplay — a scene that was cut from the theatrical release and not restored (with a CGI Jabba) until the 1997 Special Edition.
Written by Roy Thomas, penciled by Howard Chaykin, inked and colored by Steve Leialoha, lettered by Tom Orzechowski; cover by Rick Hoberg (pencils) and Tom Palmer (inks) — cover credit was originally misattributed to Chaykin.
Contains a one-page Hostess snack-cake advertisement featuring Spider-Man ('Madam Web!'), which accounts for Spider-Man's index entries in this issue.
Extensively reprinted: collected in the same-year oversized Marvel Special Edition treasury, the Random House illustrated paperback, Star Wars Weekly (Marvel UK, February 1978), Dark Horse's Classic Star Wars: A New Hope (1994), and Marvel's own Original Marvel Years Omnibus (2015) and Epic Collection series (from 2016).