Star Wars: A Long Time Ago...

A 2002–2003 Dark Horse miniseries, Star Wars: A Long Time Ago... reprints the earliest Marvel Star Wars stories from the late 1970s and early 1980s, collecting the original comic adventures that followed the release of the first film. This seven-issue series, overseen by editors like Randy Stradley, preserves the classic, often quirky tone of those pre-Empire days, featuring the iconic art of Howard Chaykin and the writing of Roy Thomas. It matters as a direct, unaltered window into the dawn of Star Wars comics, showing fans how the saga expanded on the page before the franchise became a multimedia empire.