01 · Summary
What the series is about
Charles Soule and Will Sliney's four-part account of Ben Solo's fall and his connection to the Knights of Ren.
The Rise of Kylo Ren was published by Marvel during 2019–2020. IDS classifies the series as Canon, places it in the Rise of the First Order era, and labels its format as Limited.
The current run record is 4 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
The Rise of Kylo Ren belongs to the Canon side of the archive and is indexed as a limited from Marvel. Its publication span is 2019–2020, with the current IDS run record listed as 4 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
First appearances
- #1 — Introduces Ren, the previous leader of the Knights of Ren, created for this series.
Key issues
- #1 — Ben Solo's fall begins and Ren is introduced.
- #4 — Concludes the four-part origin of Kylo Ren.
Collected editions
- Star Wars: The Rise of Kylo Ren trade paperback collecting #1–4
Variant / printing notes
Issue #1 has multiple alternate covers; identify the cover artist and UPC suffix for collecting purposes.
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
IDS uses this series to examine how Star Wars represents identity, institutions, belief, conflict, memory, material culture, and social relationships over a longer serialized form.
The goal is not to score or rank the comic. The lens identifies what kinds of social evidence the run can add to the wider IDS archive.
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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