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Cover of Star Wars: A New Hope - The Special Edition #3
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CATALOG RECORD

Star Wars: A New Hope - The Special Edition #3

Dark Horse · Series began 1997 · March 1997

Dates

Cover date
March 1997
In stores
March 5, 1997
Pages
36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #3 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 76156895368800311

    This edition’s page
  • Newsstand edition

    Newsstand

    A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

    Barcode 07098932490903

    Source ↗

Publisher’s description

The all-new adaptation of the first Star Wars motion picture continues! So special is this Special Edition motion picture that Dark Horse is releasing the comics version 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.

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)

Run and key data from the Grand Comics Database (comics.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Identifiers and aliases from Wikidata (CC0).

Issue, variant and release data from Metron (metron.cloud), CC BY-SA 4.0.