IDS Comic ArchiveStar Wars TalesRepresentative collected-edition cover

Star Wars Tales

Anthology stories spanning characters and eras, with a looser relationship to continuity than many mainline series.

01 · Summary

What the series is about

Anthology stories spanning characters and eras, with a looser relationship to continuity than many mainline series.

Star Wars Tales was published by Dark Horse during 1999–2005. IDS classifies the series as Legends, places it in the Various era, and labels its format as Anthology.

The current run record is 24 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 Tales belongs to the Legends side of the archive and is indexed as a anthology from Dark Horse. Its publication span is 1999–2005, with the current IDS run record listed as 24 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.

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 authoritarian institutions, military hierarchy, surveillance, coercion, and the ways political power becomes visible through ordinary encounters as well as major battles.

IDS reads those themes alongside the series publication history, asking how comics give recurring institutions more narrative space than a film or television episode can.

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.