Star Wars (comic strip)

Star Wars
Cover of IDW Publishing's first volume
Publication information
Format	Newspaper
Genre	Science fiction Space opera
Creative team
Written by	Russ Manning (1979) Steve Gerber (1979) Don R. Christensen (1980) Archie Goodwin (as Russ Helm) (1979–1980) Archie Goodwin (1980–1984)
Artist(s)	Russ Manning (1979–1980) Alfredo Alcala (1980–1981) Rick Hoberg (1980) Dave Stevens (1980) Al Williamson (1981–1984) assisting drawers: Alden McWilliams (1981–1982) Carlos Garzon (1981–1982) Brent Anderson (1983)[1] Tom Yeates (1983)[1]
Editor(s)	Dean Mullaney

A Star Wars comic strip ran in both daily strips and Sunday strips, originally distributed between 1979 and 1984 by two American newspaper publishers, the Los Angeles Times Syndicate and Watertown Daily Times.

The comics are set between the original Star Wars film and The Empire Strikes Back, with the exception of an adaptation of Brian Daley's Han Solo at Stars' End (1979). The first run, by Russ Manning, was primarily created before the release of The Empire Strikes Back, while Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson, in their storylines, worked with the benefit of having seen both films, in addition to Return of the Jedi in 1983.

In 1991, Russ Cochran published a 2500-copy limited run of a three-volume hardcover boxset of all of Goodwin and Williamson's Star Wars comic strips from between 1981 and 1984. From 1992 to 1994, Dark Horse Comics collected colorized compilations of the newspaper strip in its Classic Star Wars series. Between 2017 and 2018, The Library of American Comics and IDW Publishing published a three-volume reprint series of the complete comic strip.