Randy Stradley is a writer and Vice President of Publishing for Dark Horse Comics. He has also written under pseudonyms Mick Harrison and Welles Hartley.[1]
Stradley's work on issue 86 of Marvel's Star Wars series in 1984 was his very first work in the comics industry. He later went to become VP and business partner with Mike Richardson, who founded Dark Horse comics in the 1980s to focus on movie-licensed comics. The company acquired the license for Star Wars comics in the early 1990s, a few years after the end of the Marvel run and in the build-up to the prequels, relaunching the Star Wars line with such titles as Classic Star Wars (reprinting the original Star Wars newspaper strips), Dark Empire, Tales of the Jedi, and Dark Empire II. Stradley and Richardson teamed up to write the Crimson Empire miniseries, focusing on the Emperor's Royal Guard.
Editing of Dark Horse's Star Wars line passed through a number of hands before Stradley assumed the role of Star Wars Senior Editor in 2002, as Dark Horse reorganized its Star Wars line after the release of Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones. He held the position until Dark Horse lost its Star Wars license in 2014.
Randy Stradley was the first to think up the idea of Chewbacca dying in the New Jedi Order series.[2]
Star Wars bibliography
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Marvel's Star WarsEdit
Crimson Empire (with Mike Richardson)Edit
- Crimson Empire (1997–1998)
- Crimson Empire II: Council of Blood (1998–1999)
- Star Wars: Crimson Empire III—Empire Lost (2011–2012)
Dark TimesEdit
- Dark Times 1: The Path to Nowhere, Part 1 (as Welles Hartley and Mick Harrison)
- Dark Times 2: The Path to Nowhere, Part 2 (as Welles Hartley and Mick Harrison)
- Dark Times 3: The Path to Nowhere, Part 3 (as Welles Hartley and Mick Harrison)
- Dark Times 4: The Path to Nowhere, Part 4 (as Welles Hartley and Mick Harrison)
- Dark Times 5: The Path to Nowhere, Part 5 (as Welles Hartley and Mick Harrison)
- Dark Times 6: Parallels, Part 1 (as Mick Harrison)
- Dark Times 7: Parallels, Part 2 (as Mick Harrison)
- Dark Times 8: Parallels, Part 3 (as Mick Harrison)
- Dark Times 9: Parallels, Part 4 (as Mick Harrison)
- Dark Times 10: Parallels, Part 5 (as Mick Harrison)
- Dark Times 11: Vector, Part 5 (as Mick Harrison)
- Dark Times 12: Vector, Part 6 (as Mick Harrison)
- Dark Times 13: Blue Harvest, Part 1 (as Mick Harrison)
- Dark Times 14: Blue Harvest, Part 2 (as Mick Harrison)
- Dark Times 15: Blue Harvest, Part 3 (as Mick Harrison)
- Dark Times 16: Blue Harvest, Part 4 (as Mick Harrison)
- Dark Times 17: Blue Harvest, Part 5 (as Mick Harrison)
EmpireEdit
- Empire 5: Princess... Warrior, Part 1 (2003)
- Empire 6: Princess... Warrior, Part 2 (2003)
- Empire 16: To the Last Man, Part 1 (as Welles Hartley)
- Empire 17: To the Last Man, Part 2 (as Welles Hartley)
- Empire 18: To the Last Man, Part 3 (as Welles Hartley)
- Empire 22: Alone Together (as Welles Hartley)
- Empire 36: The Wrong Side of the War, Part 1 (as Welles Hartley)
- Empire 37: The Wrong Side of the War, Part 2 (as Welles Hartley)
- Empire 38: The Wrong Side of the War, Part 3 (as Welles Hartley)
- Empire 39: The Wrong Side of the War, Part 4 (as Welles Hartley)
- Empire 40: The Wrong Side of the War, Part 5 (as Welles Hartley)
Jedi CouncilEdit
- Jedi Council: Acts of War 1
- Jedi Council: Acts of War 2
- Jedi Council: Acts of War 3
- Jedi Council: Acts of War 4
RepublicEdit
- Republic 67: Forever Young (2004)
- Republic 79: Into the Unknown, Part 1 (as Welles Hartley)
- Republic 80: Into the Unknown, Part 2 (as Welles Hartley)
Star Wars TalesEdit
The Bounty HuntersEdit
OtherEdit
- Clone Wars Adventures (2004–2007)
- "Hide in Plain Sight"—Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures Volume 2 (as Welles Hartley)
- Hard Currency
- Routine Valor (2006)
- Star Wars: Panel to Panel
- Star Wars: Panel to Panel Volume 2: Expanding the Universe
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Innocents of Ryloth" (co-writer)
Notes and referencesEdit
External linksEdit
- Randy Stradley on Wikipedia
- The Circle is Now Complete: Classic Marvel Talents on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
- An Interview With Dark Horse's Randy Stradley
