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Star Wars: Age of Rebellion OHC April 28,2020
https://www.hachettebookgroup.biz/titles/marvel-comics/star-wars-age-of-rebellion/9781302917074/

I’m still waiting for Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith Vol 2 to be announced.

 

Is there a chance that target Vader could be added to it?

 

Not impossible, but unlikely as:

• Isn't Target:Vader set later?
• Standard issue count for RRP $35 OHC is no more than 10-12.

Once the issue count increases past this, so does the price.

 

I'm glad to see they're still releasing the OHC! That's my favorite format for collecting the comics.
I'm still waiting for Star Wars v. 4, Poe Dameron, Darth Vader Dark lord of tge Sith v. 2 and some of the minis to be released in OHC.
Hopefully we'll get some news in the near future.

 

Hachette listing Epic Collection - The Clone Wars, Vol 3, for 7th April 2020: https://www.hachettebookgroup.biz/t...ollection-the-clone-wars-vol-3/9781302923761/

There’s a listing for Vol 13 of the main line, but I think it’s either incorrect or a placeholder, as it refers to 73-75, which are apparently in Vol 12 -
https://www.hachettebookgroup.biz/titles/marvel-comics/star-wars-vol-13/9781302921682/

Age of Rebellion OHC coming in late April - https://www.hachettebookgroup.biz/titles/marvel-comics/star-wars-age-of-rebellion/9781302917074/

 

What all is still yet to be collected in Epic Collections? Besides what's possible coming down the line:
* another Menace Revealed Vol 3 that collects the rest the pre-AOTC Republic
* the rest of Clone Wars,
* another Empire volume that includes Agent of the Empire, The Force Unleashed, Blood Ties and the rest of Empire
* another Rebellion volume with Rebellion and Adventures (Shadows of the Empire?)
* another New Republic volume(s) with Dark Empire and Crimson Empire
* another Legacy volume(s) with the rest of Legacy and Legacy II

Is there anything I am missing?
* Dawn of the Jedi
* Tales of the Jedi
* Knight Errant

 

I presume some of the old republic MMO tie in comics as well.

 

Are you ready?

The Old Republic
- Dawn of the Jedi: Force Storm 1-5, The Prisoner of Bogan 1-5, Force War 1-5
- Tales of the Jedi: Golden Age of the Sith 0-5, Fall of the Empire 1-5, Ulic Qel-Droma and the Beast Wars of Onderon 1-2, The Saga of Nomi Sunrider 1-3, The Freedon Nadd Uprising 1-2, Dark Lords of the Sith 1-6, The Sith War 1-6, Redemption 1-5
- The Old Republic: Blood of the Empire 1-3, Threat of Peace 1-3, The Lost Suns 1-5
- Lost Tribe of the Sith: Spiral 1-5
- Knight Errant: Aflame 1-5, Deluge 1-5, Escape 1-5
- Jedi vs Sith 1-5

Menace Revealed
- Star Wars (Repbulic): 36-45: The Stark Hyperspace War 1-4, The Devaronian Version 1-2, Rite of Passage 1-4
- Jedi Quest 1-4
- The Bounty Hunters: Aurra Sing
- Jango Fett
- Zam Wessel
- The Poison Moon
- Starfighter: Crossbones 1-3
- Star Wars (Republic): 46-48: Honor and Duty 1-3
- Blood Ties: A Tale of Jango and Boba Fett 1-4
- Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones 1-4

Clone Wars
- General Grievous 1-4
- Star Wars (Republic): 68-71: Armor, Dreadnaughts of Rendili 1-3
- Obsession 1-5
- Brothers in Arms (Free Comic Book Day FCBD 2005)
- Star Wars (Republic): 72-73: Trackdown 1-2
- Routine Valor (Free Comic Book Day FCBD 2006)
- Star Wars (Republic): 74-77: Siege of Saleucami 1-4
- Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith 1-4
- Star Wars (Republic): 81-83: Hidden Enemy 1-3

The Empire
- Droids: (Apple Jacks)
- Agent of the Empire: Iron Eclipse 1-5, Hard Targets 1-5
- This Crumb for Hire
- The Force Unleashed
- The Force Unleashed II
- Blood Ties: Boba Fett is Dead 1-4
- Empire 1-4: Betrayal 1-4
- Underworld: The Yavin Vassilika 1-5
- X-Wing Rogue Squadron ½
- Empire 8-9,12,15: Darklighter, Part 1-4
- Empire 10-11: The Short, Happy Life of Roons Sewell, Part 1-2

The Rebellion
- Empire 5-6: Princess... Warrior 1-2
- Star Wars: A New Hope - The Special Edition 1-4
- Empire 13: What Sin Loyalty?
- Shadow Stalker
- Rebellion 0-5: Crossroads, My Brother, My Enemy 1-5
- Boba Fett: Overkill
- Rebellion 6-16: The Ahakista Gambit 1-5, Small Victories 1-4, Vector 7-8
- Dark Horse: The Assassination of Darth Vader: FCBD 2013
- Boba Fett 1/2: Salvage
- Splinter of the Mind's Eye 1-4
- A Valentine Story
- Tales from Mos Eisley
- Shadows of the Empire 1-6
- Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (Ertl)
- Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (Galoob)
- Kenner Shadows of the Empire Special (Part 1)
- Kenner Shadows of the Empire Special (Part 2)
- Battle of the Bounty Hunters
- The Bounty Hunters: Scoundrel's Wages
- X-Wing: Rogue Squadron: Handbook

Original Marvel Years
- Marvel: Star Wars 74-81, Annual 3
- Marvel Star Wars: Return of the Jedi 1-4
- Marvel Star Wars 82-107
- Ewoks 1-14, Annual
- Droids: 1-8: The Destroyer, The Ultimate Weapon, The Scarlet Pirate, Lost in Time, Separated, Star Wars According to the Droids Book 1-3

The New Republic
- Dark Empire 1-6
- Dark Empire II 1-6
- Boba Fett: Bounty on Bar-Kooda
- Boba Fett: When the Fat Lady Swings
- Boba Fett: Murder Most Foul
- Boba Fett: Agent of Doom
- Empire's End 1-2
- Handbook 3: Dark Empire
- Crimson Empire 0-6
- The Bounty Hunters: Kenix Kil
- Crimson Empire II 1-6
- Jedi Academy: Leviathan 1-4
- Hard Currency
- The Third Time Pays for All
- Crimson Empire III 1-6
- Handbook 2: Crimson Empire
- Union 1-4

New Jedi Order
- Chewbacca 1-4
- Invasion 0: Refugees, Prologue
- Invasion: Refugees 1-5
- Invasion: Rescues 1-5
- Invasion: Revelations 1-5

Legacy
- Legacy: 37-50, War 1-6
- Legacy Volume II: 1-18: Prisoner of the Floating World 1-5, Outcasts of the Broken Ring 1-5, Wanted: Ania Solo 1-5, Empire of One 1-3

MISC
- Clone Wars Adventures 1-10, Star Wars Adventures 1-6, Ewoks: Shadows of Endor
- Podracing Tales
- Practice Makes Perfect
- Full of Surprises
- Machines of War
- Most Precious Weapon
- Evasive Action: Reversal of Fortune
- Evasive Action: Recruitment
- Evasive Action: Prey
- Evasive Action: End Game
- Star Wars Kids: 12: The Gambler's Quest
- The Mixed Up Droid (Audio Book Supplement)

- Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire
- Dark Forces: Rebel Agent
- Dark Forces: Jedi Knight

- Remaining Parts of Visonaries
- Remaining Parts of Star Wars: Tales

 

Marvel November 2019 solicitations. Looks like the main Star Wars series is ending with issue #75. My guess is it will restart with a new #1 post-ESB.


STAR WARS: TARGET VADER #5 (of 6)
ROBBIE THOMPSON (W) • STEFANO LANDINI (A) • Cover by NIC KLEIN
THE GREAT ESCAPE!
• VALANCE has been betrayed, captured, and now stands alone.
• But nothing will stop THE HUNTER from finishing his prey... DARTH VADER, who is closing in on his own target, THE HIDDEN HAND, a mysterious syndicate working with scum, villainy... and the REBELLION?
• Can Valance use his training as a former Imperial to escape... or will he find out he has more in common with the Dark Lord than he could ever have imagined?!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
Star Wars © Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All rights reserved. Used under authorization. Text and illustrations for Star Wars are © 2019 Lucasfilm Ltd.


STAR WARS #74
GREG PAK (W) • PHIL NOTO (A/C)
ACTION FIGURE VARIANT COVER BY JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER
STAR WARS GREATEST MOMENTS VARIANT COVER by PAULINE VOß
WOOKIEE VS. SITH!
• Our three stories converge as the rebels’ plan to destroy the Empire’s fleet come to a head! But can LUKE really trust the grifter WARBA CALIP?
• Can HAN, LEIA, and DAR CHAMPION survive a head-on battle with a STAR DESTROYER?
• And what happens when CHEWBACCA takes on LORD VADER himself in hand-to-hand combat?
• And the Rebellion’s search for a new home...a base safe from the reach of the Empire...begins.
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
Star Wars © Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All rights reserved. Used under authorization. Text and illustrations for Star Wars are © 2019 Lucasfilm Ltd.


STAR WARS #75
GREG PAK (W) • PHIL NOTO (A/C)
ACTION FIGURE VARIANT COVER BY JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER
STAR WARS GREATEST MOMENTS VARIANT COVER by CHRIS SPROUSE
VARIANT COVER BY GREG LAND
FINAL ISSUE! IT’S A TRAP!
• The epic REBELS AND ROGUES storyline reaches its explosive end! Can THREEPIO save the rock people of K43?
• Is WARBA the master or the student? Which Champion falls?
• And how much of LUKE’S desperate plan has DARTH VADER foreseen from the beginning?
• The search for a new rebel base continues!
40 PGS./Rated T …$4.99
Star Wars © Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All rights reserved. Used under authorization. Text and illustrations for Star Wars are © 2019 Lucasfilm Ltd.


STAR WARS: JEDI FALLEN ORDER - DARK TEMPLE #4 (of 5)
MATTHEW ROSENBERG (W) • PAOLO VILLANELLI (A) • Cover by WILL SLINEY
VARIANT COVER by TBA
ONE AGAINST A WORLD
• Jedi Knight ENO CORDOVA must risk his life to uncover the secrets of the Dark Temple on Ontotho...while the fearsome Ontothon army approaches!
• Can Padawan CERE JUNDA alone stop them from taking the temple for themselves?
• And who are the deadly TEMPLE GUARDIANS and what are they protecting?
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
Star Wars © Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All rights reserved. Used under authorization. Text and illustrations for Star Wars are © 2019 Lucasfilm Ltd.


STAR WARS DOCTOR APHRA #38
SI SPURRIER (W)
CASPAR WIJNGAARD (A)
COVER BY ASHLEY WITTER
STAR WARS GREATEST MOMENTS
VARIANT COVER BY TOMMY LEE EDWARDS
A ROGUE’S END Part 2: THE DARK LORD FALTERS...
• DOCTOR APHRA’s reunion with her FATHER would’ve be a happy affair – if he wasn’t a pompous blowhard set to take her job as the Empire’s chief archaeologist.
• Of course, her dear old dad will have to survive Imperial Interrogation first, and which pair of charming psycho-droids do you suppose DARTH VADER has hired for the job?
• And what happens when the ancient stones of a long-lost Jedi Temple cast their ghostly influence upon the Dark Lord of the Sith himself...?
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99

STAR WARS DOCTOR APHRA #39
SI SPURRIER (W)
CASPAR WIJNGAARD (A)
COVER BY ASHLEY WITTER
STAR WARS GREATEST MOMENTS
VARIANT COVER BY TOMMY LEE EDWARDS
A ROGUE’S END Part 3: SOME LIKE IT HOTH...
• DOCTOR APHRA has so far failed to seize the secret location of the new rebel base... but that hasn’t stopped the rebels seizing HER...
• After all the bad blood and countless betrayals, does any love linger between Aphra and her new captor, Rebel Captain MAGNA TOLVAN?
• But with DARTH VADER himself keeping tabs on her progress, will Aphra see in Tolvan one last, seducible opportunity to sell-out the future of the galaxy, and save her own skin?
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
Star Wars © Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All rights reserved. Used under authorization. Text and illustrations for Star Wars are © 2019 Lucasfilm Ltd.

 

Yeah, no way do they not do a big relaunch, probably Jan 2020

 

I wonder if Tolvan will be toast by the end of this arc.

 

Kinda feels like this might be the last arc for Aphra as well.

 

Sounds to me like we're getting the rebels finding Hoth next month and then some kind of jumping ahead, but I might be reading too much into it.

 

If the Rebels are just finding Hoth at the end of the book, then technically this is still before the Mid Rim retreat. The probably won't cover it here, but it leaves open potential future stories.

 

Oh, I like that idea!

 

Do you think Aphra could get the location of the rebel base from Tolvan and then end up giving that information to Vader? Just in time for ESB

 

This is official.
https://www.newsarama.com/46638-marvel-s-star-wars-title-ending-in-november.html

 

I hope that's what they do. Mostly because I really want more stories with the OT cast together. I prefer openings to be left in the timeline as much as possible to leave room for potential stories. While I like the timeline to be filled, I don't like when it seems we're rushing to fill it in

 

This is big news. I was wondering about this recently, thinking Marvel would certainly try to beat its original run of 107 issues. Marvel can always come back and add to the numbering; I assume they will.

 

The end of the mainline series is bittersweet. Big Three / OT era stories are the meat and potatoes of Star Wars - without them the line will feel a little like a dinner without the main course. But as Todd said, 75 issues is nothing to sneeze at, and it's better to be happy it happened than sad it's over.

 

Expect SW:ESB #25 to suddenly become #100 nearer the time, then they'll do #101, 102 for a bit then revert to #25 or #26.....

 

with the star wars 75 news, wonder what the next ongoing will be.

 

Empire Strikes Back - pure guess, but I reckon it'll launch Jan 2020, 5 years on from SW #1.