Geekscape Comics: ‘Star Wars’ Comics Are Returning To Marvel

Upon Disney’s purchase of Lucasfilm, questions arose regarding the current Star Wars comics that are currently being released by Dark Horse Comics. Would we continue to see the release of Star Wars comics through Dark Horse or would they cease after the contract with Lucasfilm ran out in 2013? Well, no big surprise here. Disney has decided to not renew that contract with Dark Horse and instead will return the titles to Marvel.

The Suits in the know have determined that no new contracts will be given to Dark Horse after the current ones expire. So all new projects after 2013 will be handled internally by Marvel.

It’s not known yet if titles will be worked into the regular line up, or will Marvel create a special branch of the company that deals with Star Wars. It’ll take a couple of years for the old deals to work there course, but the stories that Dark Horse have coming down the pipeline will be the last. And you can expect anything new from Marvel dealing with Star Wars to arrive around 2015.

I don’t think I’m going out on a limb in saying that we can definitely expect some Marvel Star Wars titles to be hitting shelves around 2015, which just so happens to be the same year that Star Wars: Episode VII is scheduled to be hitting theaters.

Source: Blue Sky Disney