Free Comic Book Day 2024: Star Wars 1, is a one-shot canon comic. The issue was written by Charles Soule and Greg Pak, illustrated by Ibraim Roberson, Ramon Rosanas, Rachelle Rosenberg, and Guru-eFX, and published as a Free Comic Book Day title by Marvel Comics on May 4, 2024.

The Star Wars side of the issue—a story entitled "Return to Echo Base"^[4]—was designed to be welcoming for new readers, ensuring anyone could pick up the story without prior context needed,^[5] while the Darth Vader side—a story entitled "The Curse"—ties heavily into the ongoing story of that comic series.^[6]

Publisher's summary[]

Are there REBEL survivors stranded on HOTH? LUKE SKYWALKER, LEIA ORGANA, LANDO CALRISSIAN and CHEWBACCA mount a dangerous rescue mission to ECHO BASE! Lightsabers! Blasters! Snowtroopers! All-out action amongst the wreckage of AT-AT walkers, Rebel airspeeders and frozen weapons of mass destruction!

DARTH VADER employes a surprise character from the past to help him find LUKE SKYWALKER. But SABE, [sic] former handmaiden of PADME AMADALA [sic] is also on a quest for the son of Vader. Having worked for him as an IMPERIAL COMANDER, Sabe [sic] has enough resources to cause chaos for anyone who stands in her path. How will this affect the DARK LORD'S plans to remove PALPATINE from power?

Contents[]

• "Return to Echo Base"
• "The Curse"

Media[]

Cover gallery[]

Collections[]

• Star Wars Vol. 8: The Sith and the Skywalker (Return to Echo Base)
• Star Wars: Darth Vader Vol. 9 – Rise of the Schism Imperial (The Curse)

Sources[]

• Full Line-Up of Free Comic Book Day 2024 Comic Books Announced on www.freecomicbookday.com (November 16, 2024) (archived from the original on November 16, 2023)
• Marvel's 2024 Free Comic Book Day Titles Offer the First Taste of 'Blood Hunt,' a Prelude to the X-Men's New Era, & More on Marvel Comics' official website (backup link)
• This Week! in Star Wars Dispatch: Star Wars on Free Comic Book Day on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link)
• Darth Vader (2020) 46

Notes and references[]

External links[]

• Free Comic Book Day 2024: Star Wars (2024) #1 on Marvel Comics' official website (backup link)
• Star Wars/Darth Vader 1 on the Aurebesh Wiki

Star Wars (2020)
The Destiny Path: 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 The Will of Tarkin: 7 · 8 Operation Starlight: 9 · 10 · 11 · 12 War of the Bounty Hunters: 13 · 14 · 15 · 16 · 17 · 18 Crimson Reign: 19 · 20 · 21 · 22 · 23 · 24 Stand-alones: 25 The Path to Victory: 26 · 27 · 28 · 29 · 30 Quests of the Force: 31 · 32 · 33 · 34 · 35 · 36 Dark Droids: 37 · 38 · 39 · 40 · 41 The Sith and the Skywalker: 42 · 43 The Trial of Lando Calrissian: 44 · 45 · 46 · 47 The Path of Light: 48 · 49 · 50 Trade paperbacks 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 Related media Star Wars (2015) "An Echo of Victory" · Revelations (2022) · "A Trick of the Mind" "Return to Echo Base"
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Dark Heart of the Sith: 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 Into the Fire: 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 · 11 War of the Bounty Hunters: 12 · 13 · 14 · 15 · 16 · 17 Crimson Reign: 18 · 19 · 20 · 21 · 22 · 23 · 24 The Shadow's Shadow: 25 · 26 · 27 Return of the Handmaidens: 28 · 29 · 30 · 31 · 32 Unbound Force: 33 · 34 Target Aphra: 35 · 36 Dark Droids: 37 · 38 · 39 · 40 · 41 Rise of the Schism Imperial: 42 · 43 · 44 · 45 The Razing of Exegol: 46 · 47 Phantoms: 48 · 49 · 50 Trade paperbacks 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 Related media Darth Vader (2015) · Darth Vader (2017) In Service to the Empire · Revelations (2022) · Tool of the Empire The Curse · Phantom Menace Special
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