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Star Wars: A New Hope - The Special Edition #1

Dark Horse · Series began 1997 · January 1997

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Dates

Cover date: January 1997
In stores: January 8, 1997
Pages: 36

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Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Direct edition (original)

No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.

Barcode 76156895368800111
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Newsstand edition

Newsstand

A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

Barcode 07098932490901
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Publisher’s description

So special is this Special Edition motion picture that Dark Horse is releasing it simultaneously as a four-issue, monthly comics series and as a single-volume, trade paperback collection. The covers of the four-issue series are each painted by Dave Dorman, and, when placed beside one another, they form one massive Star Wars image with the Death Star at the center. Experience it again, for the very first time.

Reprinted in

Star Wars: A New Hope (1997), Star Wars Omnibus: The Complete Saga - Episodes I through VI (2011), Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Empire (2015), Star Wars Special Edition: A New Hope (2017), Star Wars Legends: The Empire Omnibus (2021)