To celebrate Fox's final video re-issue of the digitally remastered Star Wars films, Dark Horse Comics will re-release the comics adaptations of the record-breaking space epics in November 1995. Like the Fox re-release, this will be the last time the Star Wars movie adaptations will be published in their original form. The Star Wars comics previously appeared as a monthly series from Marvel, and later as a series of six Dark Horse prestige-format comics, with two volumes devoted to each film.

In November, the comic-book adaptations will be made available once again, both as a boxed set and as three individual volumes, titled respectively Star Wars: A New Hope, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.

"These three volumes are literally crammed full of story and art," said editor Lynn Adair. "There was hardly room for a title page, so we decided not to waste anyone's time with one. The action starts immediately as you open the cover, kind of like that first time you sat in a theater and saw the Imperial Star Destroyer roaring in over your head during the first minutes of the original Star Wars movie.

"As an added bonus," Adair continued, "the third volume contains a gallery of Lucasfilm production sketches from the original motion pictures."

When these new editions of the adaptations go out of print, they will not go back to press. They will be available for twelve months only, until 1997 when Lucasfilm releases a special re-edited cut of the original Star Wars film to theaters, a version featuring improved sound quality and restored footage never before seen by motion-picture audiences. At that time, Dark Horse Comics will begin publishing a new comic-book adaptation of the Star Wars trilogy.