Star Wars: Darth Vader #40

Dates

Cover date

January 2024

On sale

November 8, 2023

In stores

November 8, 2023

Pages

36

Editions and covers (4)

Copies of #40 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

• Leinil Francis Yu Cover

  Barcode 75960609601504011

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• Alan Quah Cover

  Barcode 75960609601504016

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• Life Day - Rod Reis

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  Rod Reis Life Day VariantMetron

  Barcode 75960609601504021

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Story arc: Dark Droids

This is part 18 of 28. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.

1. Star Wars: Dark Droids #1
2. Star Wars #37
3. Star Wars: Darth Vader #37
4. Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #35
5. Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #37
6. Star Wars #38
7. Star Wars: Dark Droids #2
8. Star Wars: Darth Vader #38
9. Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #38
10. Star Wars: Dark Droids - D-Squad #1
11. Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #36
12. Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #39
13. Star Wars: Darth Vader #39
14. Star Wars: Dark Droids #3
15. Star Wars #39
16. Star Wars: Dark Droids - D-Squad #2
17. Star Wars #40
18. Star Wars: Darth Vader #40
19. Star Wars: Dark Droids #4
20. Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #38
21. Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #40
22. Star Wars: Dark Droids - D-Squad #3
23. Star Wars #41
24. Star Wars: Dark Droids - D-Squad #4
25. Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #41
26. Star Wars: Darth Vader #41
27. Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #39
28. Star Wars: Dark Droids #5

Creators

Stories

• The Master's Trial · 20 pages

Publisher’s description

SCOURGE OF CORUSCANT! What greater prize could the DROID SCOURGE imagine than CORUSCANT, an ecumenopolis filled with millions of droids? And what greater TERROR could the people of Coruscant imagine than a horde of scourged droids…led by LORD VADER himself?

Characters

Reprinted in

Star Wars: Darth Vader by Greg Pak (2020), Star Wars: Dark Droids Omnibus (2026)