Lit Dark Empire Endnotes

I know this thread will probably get shut down by the mods, but... How rare exactly are the Dark Empire endnotes, and how many of them are there?

 

I've been rather curious of this myself...

 

What are Dark Empire end notes?

 

The original six issues of the Dark Empire comic came with endnotes. These were collected the first time the series was put into a trade paperback but not when they released it again a few years later, nor in the Dark Empire Trilogy collection.

Pretty neat stuff in there. Like, basically an early draft of the Tales of the Jedi comics. Been ages since I've read them.

 

They are short paragraphs written by Tom Veitch. They're kind of like concept art for galactic history, I guess. TOTJ was based off of them.

 

How rare are they though?

Darth_Duck

 

They got reprinted on the official site about a decade ago, but I think they were all lost when Hyperspace was shut down.

 

They're hard to find. You can't get them new, and haven't been able to for a long, long time
They used to be on StarWars.com's Hyperspace but that's gone now.
So if you're looking for them, good luck?

 

What happened to Hyperspace is pretty inexplicable, imo. That's a lot of writing lost.

 

Adve, if you're looking for anything specific from it, I have my old copy of DE on hand, one of the few SW trades I actually have with me and not packed away in a box somewhere. I can flip through it and check on anything.

I do remember that in addition to the proto-TOTJ stuff, it also includes a lot of references bridging the end of the Thrawn Trilogy with the start of DE, as well as a few references to Glove of Darth Vader.

 

I have the second edition of the Dark Empire trade paperback, which has the endnotes in them. I was just wondering if that was all of them, and how rare they were in case I wanted to sell them. But I do want to get an extra copy of the endnotes, for a friend. So, if you could direct me somewhere, that would be great.

In case you're wondering, I got my copy from Amazon just a few weeks ago (I'm ashamed, I hadn't gotten to read DE yet because it was too expensive). It said it was the third edition, but I wound up getting the second edition of DE and the first edition of DE 2. I guess it was my lucky day!

 

Dark Empire is on Marvel Unlimited, like all the rest of the Star Wars comics. (I actually have a code for a free month's subscription, if anyone wants it.)

 

If you don't want it, I'll use it. What is Marvel Unlimited, anyway?

 

Cool.

 

And by "large", he means "enormous".

It's more than a little buggy, though.

 

60k or so, I think. (And all of TOTJ, KOTOR, Knight Errant, Dark Empire I and II, Crimson Empire I-III, Legacy, etc. I think the only part their missing is some of Republic.)

 

You mean the " From a time of peace... to a time of darkness"?

 

If you're looking for the endnotes, buy either the individual issues or a trade paperback with Luke wielding a lightsaber on the front cover.

 

darklordoftech What does the 3rd edition look like?

And on a completely different note, I can't find the second issue to Empire's End anywhere! Besides Marvel, where can I get it?

 

Luke clenching one of his fists and holding his lightsaber in the other hand.

 

Just checked. The end notes are NOT on Marvel Unlimited.
Also checked and EMPIRE'S END is on the site
Overall, there are about 17k comics on the site. Someone mentioned it's a bit buggy - I've not experienced that as yet and I've been using it for about a year.

 

(accidentally posted with my phone in my pocket)

 

I bet the eventual Epic Collection from Marvel will feature them, as the EC for KOTOR reproduced the 'single issue only' extras in those collected editions which AFAIK hadn't been collected before.

 

http://www.starwarsunderworld.com/2016/08/interview-with-dark-empire-writer-tom.html