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Star Wars Tales

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Warning: The following parameters in the infobox are unrecognized: era Star Wars Tales is a series of comics that began on September 29, 1999 and ended on July 13, 2005 published by Dark Horse Comics. Each issue is an anthology of stories from various eras of Star Wars. Although the stories themselves are unrelated, many issues were themed around a single character, group or era. Each story varies in length, with six or so stories in each issue, adding up to a total of 64 pages. Two covers were produced for each issue, one illustrated, the other a photo.

Issue #1 to Issue #20 were edited by Peet Janes (Issues 1 and 2) and Dave Land (Issues 3–20) and were labeled Infinities, placing them outside the Legends continuity (though this is not to say that the events depicted were permanently outside the continuity, just that they should not be considered official unless they were endorsed by another source).[1]

In-universe, the premise is that the stories of the Tales series are holo rentals from Peeja Mobet's Holo Emporium. Peeja Mobet introduced the first two issues (before editor Peet Janes left the series and Dave Land took over), talking about the stories presented. Even he admits not everything that is found in his shop is "historically accurate." In his words (taken from Issue 1):

"Some folks take liberties with their characters, others ignore potentially significant events, and still others speculate about what might have happened if something didn't occur when and where it should have. Or vice-versa for that matter. And then of course there's them hoo-ha stories, which make none of the pretense about tying in so long as you're doubled over and crackin' up!"

From Issue 2:

"Now, the stories that I carry in this shop have been told from as many points of view as there are thinking beings on this planet. That makes for some interesting perspectives, even on the same stories that we've heard over and over again. Everybody's got his or her own personal spin on events, and ideas of the outcomes too, that may rankle some folks: 'Hey, I was there! He didn't do that!' they shout over their half-drained lomin ales. Then somebody else pipes in with 'What do you know? You weren't even hatched when that happened!' and then the place devolves into a classic brawl.

"I have a little more respect for the differing viewpoints. For one, every different viewpoint is another story I can rent! For another, despite the fact that our perceptions are based on the same incoming information, everybody has his or her own interpretations of things, no matter what lobe they're using or how glitterstimmed their ganglia may be. That's what makes this the most colorful galaxy in the universe, eh?

"The most important thing is: is it a good story? Does it have all the parts, in a semblance of order, and make sense as a whole? Did you laugh at the end, or did your hearts jump and make you wonder about the final outcome, the fate of some endearing (or reviled!) character? I hope so; otherwise I'm not doing my job and you'd better tell me!"

Jeremy Barlow became the next editor, and edited Issue #21 to Issue #24. All the tales from these issues are considered canon within Legends, unless labeled otherwise.

Tales also produced a 16-page Free Comic Book Day Edition, released in May 2002.

Many Tales stories and events from the first twenty issues have been referenced in other Star Wars publications. This places the referenced aspects of the story into the Legends continuity, but does not necessarily mean that the entire story should be considered within the official continuity. For a list of all Tales stories that have had elements incorporated into this continuity, see the corresponding section below.

The 24 issues of Tales have been collected in six volumes of trade paperbacks, collecting four full issues each.

Notable contributors

Author Tales contribution(s) Other notable works
Sergio Aragonés "Junkheap Hero," "Spare Parts" MAD Magazine, Groo the Wanderer
Jeremy Barlow "Rather Darkness Visible" Empire, Clone Wars Adventures
Haden Blackman "Revenants," "Single Cell," "Into the Great Unknown" Republic, Clone Wars Adventures
Peter David "Skippy the Jedi Droid" Various Star Trek comics and novels
Jan Duursema "Deal with a Demon," "Single Cell," "Ghost" Republic, Legacy
Ian Edginton "Lando's Commandos: On Eagles' Wings," "A Hot Time in the Cold Town Tonite!," "Honor Bound" 2000 AD, Scarlet Traces
Garth Ennis "Trooper," "In the Beginning" Preacher, The Punisher
Cam Kennedy Tales 18 cover Dark Empire
Ron Marz "Extinction," "Resurrection" Darth Maul, Empire
John McCrea "Trooper," "The Duty," "The Other" 2000 AD, Hitman
Steve Niles "Planet of the Dead" 30 Days of Night
John Ostrander "Deal with a Demon," "Bad Business" Republic, Legacy
Kilian Plunkett "Sand Blasted," "First Impressions" Shadows of the Empire, The Clone Wars
Randy Stradley "Jedi Chef" Crimson Empire, Jedi Council: Acts of War
Ben Templesmith "Dark Journey" 30 Days of Night
Ryder Windham "Thank the Maker" Republic, Missions
Timothy Zahn "Mara Jade: A Night on the Town" The Thrawn Trilogy, The Hand of Thrawn Duology

Issues

Issue Title Publication date Trade paperback(s) TPB pub date
1 Tales 1 September 20, 1999 Tales Volume 1 February 20, 2002
2 Tales 2 January 5, 2000
3 Tales 3 March 29, 2000
4 Tales 4 June 29, 2000
5 Tales 5 September 27, 2000 Tales Volume 2 May 1, 2002
6 Tales 6 December 20, 2000
7 Tales 7 March 7, 2001
8 Tales 8 June 13, 2001
9 Tales 9 October 10, 2001 Tales Volume 3 February 26, 2003
10 Tales 10 December 12, 2001
11 Tales 11 March 20, 2002
12 Tales 12 June 5, 2002
13 Tales 13 September 25, 2002 Tales Volume 4 January 29, 2004
14 Tales 14 December 11, 2002
15 Tales 15 March 12, 2003
16 Tales 16 June 25, 2003
17 Tales 17 October 1, 2003 Tales Volume 5 February 23, 2005
18 Tales 18 December 24, 2003
19 Tales 19 May 14, 2004
20 Tales 20 June 30, 2004
21 Tales 21 October 20, 2004 Tales Volume 6 January 25, 2006
22 Tales 22 February 23, 2005
23 Tales 23 May 11, 2005
24 Tales 24 July 13, 2005

List of Star Wars Tales by Issue

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Star Wars Tales Volume 1

Star Wars Tales Volume 2

Star Wars Tales Volume 3

Star Wars Tales Volume 4

Star Wars Tales Volume 5

Star Wars Tales Volume 6

Tales stories with elements of continuity

This is a list of all stories in Star Wars Tales with elements that occur in Legends continuity. By default, all Tales stories are Infinities, and are popularly described as being "non-canon with elements of continuity," referring to the fact that if an outside source C-canon or higher references an element in a Tales story, that element is canonized within Legends. It is important to note that this does not place the entire story in Legends, and in some cases parts of the story contain details that are irreconcilable with the rest of Star Wars Legends. These are noted below. All stories are sorted by trade-paperback volume number, then alphabetically. The source in which the Legends reference occurs is listed below the entry, with the appropriate section of the source following it.

Stories entirely within Legends

The following are Tales stories that have either been reprinted without the Infinities logo, rendering them into Legends in their entirety, or stories printed after Tales 20, which no longer carry the Infinities logo unless an individual story calls for it. No source is listed for the stories of Volume VI, as they are already in Legends.

Volume I

"Routine"

Volume II

"Death Star Pirates"

Volume III

"Resurrection"

Volume VI

Stories with elements of continuity

The following are Tales stories that have had a reference to them published in a Legends source. The scope of the reference varies; some, such as "Extinction," have almost their entire story referenced, while others may have no more than a planet or person's name reprinted.

Volume I

"Extinction"

"Deal with a Demon"

"The Death of Captain Tarpals"

"Lady Luck"

"Life, Death, and the Living Force"

"Mara Jade: A Night on the Town"

"Sand Blasted"

"Skippy the Jedi Droid"[2]

"Stop That Jawa!"

"Incident at Horn Station"

"Three Against the Galaxy"

"Moment of Doubt"

  • The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

Volume II

"A Hot Time in the Cold Town Tonite!"

"A Summer's Dream"

"Fortune, Fate, and the Natural History of the Sarlacc"[3]

"Hoth"

"The Hovel on Terk Street"

  • "Unusual Suspects"

"Lando's Commandos: On Eagles' Wings"

  • "Unusual Suspects"
  • The New Essential Guide to Characters
  • Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds: Darth Vader's Search for the Rebels (Cloud City Attack)
  • The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

"Outbid But Never Outgunned"

"Single Cell"

"Nerf Herder"

  • The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

"Thank the Maker"

"Bad Business"

"Yaddle's Tale: The One Below"[4]

"Captain Threepio"

  • The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

"The One That Got Away"

  • The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

"The Secret Tales of Luke's Hand!"

  • The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

Volume III

"A Jedi's Weapon"

  • Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide: p. 41

"Hate Leads to Lollipops"

  • The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

"Nameless"

  • The Dark Forces Saga, Part 4
  • Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide: p. 32 (picture)
  • The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

"Once Bitten"

  • Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide: p. 28

"A Day in the Life"

"The Duty"

  • The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

Volume IV

"Apocalypse Endor"

  • Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide: p. 67 (picture)

"Children of the Force"[5]

  • Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide: p. 18 (picture)
  • One of a Kind

"First Impressions"

  • Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide: p. 74

"Kessel Run"

"Puzzle Peace"

  • The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

"Sandstorm"

  • The New Essential Chronology: Profiles in History (The Skywalkers)

"The Secret of Tet-Ami"

  • The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

"Slippery Slope"

  • Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide

"Stones"

  • The New Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology: Lightsaber

Survivors (comic)

  • The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

"The Sith in the Shadow"

  • Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide: p. 21

"Tides of Terror"

"Urchins"

  • Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide: p. 39

"Heart of Darkness"

  • The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

Volume V

"Dark Journey"

"Being Boba Fett"

  • The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

"Revenants"[6]

"The Apprentice"

  • The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

"Phantom Menaces"

  • The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

"Number Two in the Galaxy"

  • The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

"Payback"

  • The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

"The Value of Proper Intelligence to Any Successful Military Campaign is Not to Be Underestimated"

  • The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

"Into the Great Unknown"

  • The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

"Rather Darkness Visible"

  • The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

"Young Lando Calrissian"

  • The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

Bibliography

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Leland Chee's statement
  2. ↑ This story has only been referenced as an in-universe rumor.
  3. ↑ The framing story cannot be entirely within Legends due to a timeline conflict: Boba Fett is present when Grubbat Fhilch is fed to the parent Sarlacc at the story's beginning. However, the Sarlacc which spawns from its parent during the story, the one which later inhabits the Great Pit of Carkoon, is confirmed in A Barve Like That: The Tale of Boba Fett as being hundreds of years old.
  4. ↑ The framing story cannot be entirely within Legends due to a timeline conflict: Oppo Rancisis is on the Jedi Council for the confirmation of Yaddle in the story; however, Oppo was trained by Yaddle, and at this time was only a Padawan.
  5. ↑ Any references to Mace Windu's parents cannot be Legends due to a conflict with his backstory provided in Shatterpoint.
  6. ↑ Han Solo's role is questionable, due to a conflict with The New Jedi Order: The Unifying Force, where it is implied that he and Boba Fett have not met in a long time.
Star Wars Tales
1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 · 11 · FCBD · 12
13 · 14 · 15 · 16 · 17 · 18 · 19 · 20 · 21 · 22 · 23 · 24
Collections
Volume 1 · Volume 2 · Volume 3 · Volume 4 · Volume 5 · Volume 6
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