Talk:List of Star Wars comic books

Chronology

Wouldn't it be more useful to make this a real-life chronology, instead of a fictional one? That way, instead of being a list of one-off chapters, storylines, or issues, this could actually be a list of series and miniseries, much the way most other comics are handled. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 03:48, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

The reason I mention this is because I came here to figure out what title the Archie Goodwin Star Wars comics is under (since the title of the series was just "Star Wars") and also a list of all the Star Wars comics published under Marvel's time with the license (as opposed to Dark Horse's comics), and this list is completely useless for both of those. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 03:51, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

If you mean make this more of a list, that's a bad idea. The timeline is much more suitable for todays' EU.--Ranat 23 14:46, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Why? - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 02:39, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Because the 'canon' timeline is much more appealing to those who collect the comics for they prefer to organize them according to the EU timeline. A simple list will not help and make this a lot harder to do. Besides, the Marvel comics are collected in the "A Long Time Ago..." TPB series.--Ranat 23 14:46, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

We're not writing a fan guide, we're writing an encyclopedia. A "fictional chronology" list may be fine as a supplement or appendix to this list, but the main organization of ANY article should be from the perspective of the real world. All publication dates for all titles need to be provided, and these should form the basis for organizing the list. Postdlf 23:50, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

There's no reason we can't have two lists: one by publication date, and an EU timeline. --Hotdoglives 01:19, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

This page should not be layed out in terms of fictional chronology. Who decided what fictional order the stories belonged in anyway? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.140.244.90 (talk) 01:28, 14 April 2007

That man would be George Lucas. And the various writers of the individual stories, who work together to establish a timeline of fictional events. See the comic books and the Dark Horse website for official timeline information. --Hotdoglives 06:14, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

So George Lucas has stated that Tom Veitch's Empire's End takes place after Boba Fett: Death, Lies, & Treachery and Crimson Empire? You don't happen to have a citation for that do you? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.140.244.90 (talk) 01:38, 17 April 2007 (UTC).

Official Dark Horse timeline - There is your citation. George Lucas doesn't have that much to do with the EU, he just wrote the broad story line of course, and approves story ideas. But Dark Horse is an official source for the comic book timeline. --Hotdoglives 05:18, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Then don't answer "George Lucas" when someone ask "Who decided what fictional order the stories belonged in anyway?" —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.140.244.90 (talk) 11:17, 18 April 2007 (UTC).

I was merely stating that the basic chronology of major events was written by George Lucas. Notice, I followed "George Lucas" with "And the various writers of the individual stories." --Hotdoglives 01:06, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

But it was neither George Lucas nor the writers of the individual stories who created the detailed chronology of this list so you were still wrong. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.140.244.90 (talk) 22:30, 30 April 2007 (UTC).

I'm with A Man in Black, etc. While I don't say this page in its current form is useless, it provides essentially no information to the casual reader who just wants to learn about the various comics series which have been published under the Star Wars aegis. It requires a significant amount of knowledge about the SW EU and its history to interpret in any meaningful way. But if I just wanted to learn that Marvel published a SW series in the '80's followed by Ewoks and Droids spin-offs, and there was a comic strip series in [whenever], and Dark Horse published a series spanning various eras called Star Wars Tales, this list is impenetrable. Why can't someone who knows something of the history of SW comics just create a list of the various series put out by the various publishers, and when, so that a person who doesn't already know everything about the subject can find useful information here? --12.17.21.162 (talk) 17:33, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Publishing dates need to be added for all the comic book series. This article should have two chronologies, one of fictional chronology, and one of publishing chronology (which is missing), like in most other articles of this sort (see list of Star Trek comic books and list of Transformers comic books). Publishing companies also need to be added.

This page is terribly lacking right now and doesn't even tell what the first published series was, nor does it explain which were the major series, nor does it tell who published which series, giving readers interested in reading these comic books no idea what place to start. To turn User:Ranat 23's argument of "Because the 'canon' timeline is much more appealing to those who collect the comics for they prefer to organize them according to the EU timeline." on its head, actually, I would argue that a publishing timeline would be just as useful to those wanting to collect the comics.

—Lowellian (reply) 18:45, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

This list is completely useless to me without a publication date order - it comes off as the kind of list you'd see on a fan forum or a star wars wiki and not the kind of list an encyclopedia should have. 68.190.52.2 (talk) 21:03, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Well, there is a list for more of the real-world aspect of Star Wars comics (see Star Wars (comics)). If you want to add to that page, you should be fine. Cdgodin (talk) 01:15, 16 March 2012 (UTC)´

I know, this discussion seems to be finished years ago, nevertheless: the fictional chronology is perfect for this article, and it is exactly what i was searching for (including the numerous links that make it even more helpful). Thanks to all the authors! Yet some titles are missing or misplaced, i will gladly contribute a bit. --Fah (talk) 08:55, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Working my way through the comics, reading each and every one, i feel that both the above discussed criteria (fictional vs. real-world chronology) make sense in their own way. I still think the criterium "fictional chronology" is the most important for this article, but lets face it: there is not "the one" Star Wars universe - there is a multiverse. Different "time lines" with an remarkable development of storytelling and drawing over the course of the real world publishing initiatives - every one retelling the popular myth according to the changing needs and abilities of the readers (and the artists) of the successive decades. So i will slowly reorganize the material: first criterium is "fictional epoch", second is "publication date". --Fah (talk) 21:16, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Cancelled/Unreleased Comics

So some of the comics listed here have been cancelled, and I was wondering if there's a way to mention it. Should they be removed, have a separate section for cancelled comics, or have some sort of note next to them? I was also wondering if unreleased comics should be listed with references to where they were announced or if we should wait for them to be released to add them. StarWarsFan2247 (talk) 22:36, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

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