The Secret Tales of Luke's Hand!

The Secret Tales of Luke's Hand is a non-canon 8-page comic featured in Star Wars Tales Volume 2. It was written by Henry Gilrdy, the artwork was done by Darid Brizuela, the lettering was done by Steve Dutro and it was colored by Cara L. Neice.

Plot
It is 11 ABY and has been seven years after the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY. At the Palace of the New Republic on Coruscant, a four year old Anakin Solo is having trouble sleeping and his mother Leia Organa Solo persuades Han Solo to talk with Anakin since he's not willing to tell his mother.

Once he's in Anakin bed chamber, his son asks him why his Uncle Luke Skywalker always wears one glove and tells his dad that he knows taht something happened to his hand. Han then proceweds to tell his son that Luke dueled his father Darth Vader at Cloud City on Bespin. Luke had his hand cut off during the battle. However, it survived.

Thus begins the story! After being cut off, Luke's ahnd found himself falling to the bottom of Cloud City. However, it survived by walking on its fingers and managed to make it to a landing platform where Lando Calrissian still kept an old ship of Han around - the Millennium Fist (an obvious parody of the Millennium Falcon with a pair of green gloves stuck to the front).

Travelling on the Fist, Luke arrives at Hoth to hook up with the Rebel reserves at the old rendervous point. However, in stead of the reserves, Luke's hand encounters the hand of the Wampa that he fought earlier. However, Luke's hand used the Force to grab a nearby lightsaber and then destroyed it. Luke then returned to the Fist and sped to the secondary rendervous point Tatooine.

He then goes to the Mos Eisley Cantina (where all the occupants are just hands like him). Luke's hand encounters the hand of the Aqualish thug Ponda Baba though it defeated Ponda Baba's hand. Worse was to come in the form of the hand of Darth Vader. Despite fighting back, Luke's hand looses in the end and was completely frozen in carbonite.

Darth Vader's hand then journeyed across the Galaxy into the heart of the Imperial fleet with Luke's hand. Vader's hand then defrosted Luke's hand and presented it to his master - the "Emperor's foot". Though Emperor Palpatine perished at the Second Death Star his foor survived. Like before, the Emperor's foot tried to turn Luke's hand to the Dark Side. However like before, Luke's hand refuses to be turned and the Emperor's foot attacks him with the Force causing him to lose his thumb.

And like before, Vader's hand turns from the Dark Side and then with Luke's hand, they threw the Emperor's foot down a nearby shaft, killing the foot and defeating the Dark Side. This excites Anakin and he says he wants to be Luke's hand when he grows up. He then asks his dad what happens to Luke's thumb though his dad tells him that the story would be continued on another night and that its past his bedtime.

Han then says goodnight to his son and leaves the room only to be faced with his wife saying, "The Emperor's Foot". Han then replies "What, no harm done." Back in Anakin's room, Anakin is "pitting" his fingers against his toes.

Trivia

 * This story contradicts the Dark Empire comic series since it shows and intact Coruscant and a four year old Anakin Solo. In official canon, Coruscant had been devastated during the fighting between the various Imperial factions since Thrawn's death in 9 ABY, and Anakin is just an infant.


 * Luke's severed hand is actually retrieved by agents of the Empire and is used by the mad Dark Jedi clone Joruus C'Baoth to generate a clone of Luke Skywalker: Luuke Skywalker.


 * The Palace of the New Republic appears to be the old Imperial Palace.