Star Wars 7: New Planets, New Perils!

Star Wars 7: New Planets, New Perils is the seventh issue in the Marvel Star Wars series of comics, and the first original Star Wars comic story. This is the first original story in the comic series, and one of the first stories in the Expanded Universe.

Plot
After bidding farewell to their Rebel friends, Han Solo and Chewbacca set out to return to Tatooine to pay off their debt to Jabba the Hutt. En route there, they are hijacked by space pirate Crimson Jack and his gang of thugs. The pirates take the reward money given to Han and Chewbacca by the Rebel Alliance for rescuing Princess Leia Organa, but spare their lives. Forced to lay low because they can't pay Jabba, the two seek refuge on the planet Aduba-3. There they are hired by a priest of the Sacred Way to bury a recently deceased borg. Although they meet with some resistance from the locals who object to having a borg buried in their traditional mound, they do eventually find their way to the burial site. After completing that task, the two smugglers are relaxing in a local cantina where they are presented with a much deadlier one.

Characters

 * Azoora ("Little Girl Blue")
 * C-3PO
 * Chewbacca
 * Crimson Jack ("Redbeard")
 * Jabba the Hut
 * Jolli ("Miss Sunshine")
 * Locru's bartender
 * Obi-Wan Kenobi
 * Leia Organa
 * the Pera ("Buggie")
 * R2-D2
 * Luke Skywalker
 * Han Solo
 * Ramiz
 * Darth Vader

Sentient species

 * human
 * Hut
 * near-human
 * Wroonian
 * Sikurdian
 * Verpine {"Insect-guy")
 * Wookiee

Languages

 * Basic
 * Droidspeak
 * High Galactic
 * Fi
 * Pera
 * Shyriiwook

Creatures

 * Bantha
 * clam (indirect mention)
 * Gordian hopper
 * Insect
 * Swamp-cat

Locations

 * Aduba-3
 * Tun Aduban
 * Locru's Central Saloon
 * the Mission
 * Spacers' Hill
 * Town Circle
 * Aquilae
 * Corellia (Indirect mention)
 * Kashyyyk
 * Tatooine (as Dantooine)
 * Yavin system
 * Yavin
 * Yavin Prime
 * Yavin 4
 * Base One

Vehicles and vessels

 * Battlecruiser (Crimson Jack's)
 * Death Star I
 * T-65B X-wing starfighter (X-winger)
 * TIE/ln starfighter
 * travois
 * YT-1300 light freighter
 * Millennium Falcon

Organizations and titles

 * Galactic Empire
 * Stormtrooper
 * Rebel Alliance
 * Sacred Way
 * space-pirates (cosmic buccaneers/star-pirates)
 * Crimson Jack's pirate gang

Weapons

 * blaster
 * bowcaster
 * cutlass
 * laser cannon
 * ray-gun
 * Sikurdian battle-axe
 * tractor beam
 * turbolaser turret

Battles

 * Galactic War

Other continuity

 * anthropoid
 * battle action
 * beast of burden
 * blaster-happy
 * bongo
 * Borg-licker
 * bounty hunter
 * bring-up-the-rear
 * chromium
 * chromium rush
 * clambake
 * clown
 * coin
 * count of three
 * crewman
 * cyborg (Borg)
 * deflector shield
 * droid (robot)
 * eye patch
 * first blood
 * flare-up
 * freighter-load
 * galaxy
 * give her the gun
 * gods of space
 * Han Solo's maiden aunt
 * hand-to-hand combat
 * hell
 * home sweet home
 * homeworld
 * Hyperspace
 * insectoid
 * laser blast
 * laser bolt
 * Lightyear
 * mine-seeding
 * moment-of-truth time
 * monster
 * mother ship
 * navigator
 * nova-happy
 * Outer Rim Territories
 * Rim Worlds
 * outworlder (offworlder)
 * planet
 * planet-jumper
 * priest
 * religion
 * faith
 * holy-book
 * retribution
 * sin
 * Sunday school
 * scavenger
 * scope
 * smuggler
 * smuggling czar
 * spacecraft
 * space-happy
 * space-mercenary
 * space-pilot
 * spacer
 * spice
 * spice-caravan
 * star-chart
 * star-hopper
 * star-spurs
 * star system
 * civilized star system
 * sem-civilized star system
 * star-trader
 * Stormtrooper armor
 * unfortunate aversion to dying
 * wanted poster
 * Wookiee rage

Behind the scenes
The characters, Crimson Jack, Pera, Jolli and Azoora made their first appearances in this issue. Only Jack and Jolli would see more appearances in the series.

The unnamed cyborg that Han and Chewbacca help to bury bears a distinct (and presumably intentional) resemblance to Tharok, a villain from DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes comic, a science fiction/superhero series set in the 30th Century. Roy Thomas, who scripted this issue, went on to write several issues of the Legion's comic book series in 1981.

The letters column, Star Words, stated that the comic series would focus on the characters Han Solo and Chewbacca until George Lucas has a better idea of where the story of the second film would go. This issue's Marvel Bullpen Bulletins announced that Marvel Special Edition Featuring Star Wars 2, reprinting the final three issues of the film adaptation, was available at the time of this issue's release.

Collections

 * Classic Star Wars: A Long Time Ago... Volume 1: Doomworld

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