01 · Summary
What the series is about
A five-issue canon miniseries about Maul before The Phantom Menace, when Sidious still restricts his apprentice from openly confronting the Jedi.
Star Wars: Darth Maul was published by Marvel during 2017. IDS classifies the series as Canon, places it in the Prequel era, and labels its format as Limited.
The current run record is 5 issues. That run description is kept separate from variants, collected editions, annuals, one-shots, and reprints so collectors can distinguish the story sequence from the physical formats used to publish it.
02 · Publication file
Where it sits in Star Wars comics
Star Wars: Darth Maul belongs to the Canon side of the archive and is indexed as a limited from Marvel. Its publication span is 2017, with the current IDS run record listed as 5 issues.
IDS treats publisher, continuity, run structure, physical issue format, variants, and later collections as separate metadata fields so a trade paperback or alternate cover is not mistaken for a different story issue.
03 · Creators
Series contributors in bibliographic records
When a collected edition is matched through public bibliographic metadata, IDS surfaces its credited contributors here. This is a series-level aid, not a claim that the same team created every issue in the run.
05 · Collector file
Key issues, firsts, collections, and variants
Key issues
- #1 — Launch of the five-part pre-The Phantom Menace canon miniseries.
- #4 — Your Rafael Albuquerque Cover A copy; June 21, 2017.
Collected editions
- Star Wars: Darth Maul trade paperback collecting #1–5
Variant / printing notes
Individual issues were sold with alternate covers. Cover letter, UPC suffix, and printing matter when identifying a specific collectible copy.
06 · People
Major characters
The people below are the major characters currently attached to this series record. The list is a guide into IDS, not a complete cast list for every issue.
07 · IDS lens
What this comic can reveal
This series is useful for examining religious authority, apprenticeship, sacred tradition, institutional memory, and conflict over who can legitimately interpret the Force.
IDS separates fictional cosmology from the social institutions built around it, which makes comics especially valuable when they show schools, councils, sects, archives, rituals, or competing lineages over multiple issues.
08 · Source record
Publication and collector sources
IDS separates publication facts and creator metadata from independently written summaries and analysis. Representative covers are resolved from bibliographic records and may depict a collected edition rather than the exact first issue of the run.
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