- "I don't know what Luke boy's been doing all this time... but he's sure changes."
- ―Laze Loneozner
Star Wars 31: Return to Tatooine is the thirty-first issue in the 1977 Marvel Star Wars series of comics.
Plot summary
Luke Skywalker returns to Tatooine for the first time since leaving with Obi-Wan Kenobi. His mission is to recruit blockade runner pilots to help the Rebel Alliance evacuate their base on Yavin 4. However, while he is there he finds some clues to a secret plan of the House of Tagge working with the Empire, but not enough to find out exactly what they are up to. He goes to Mos Eisley to continue his original mission, and reunites with Han Solo and Chewbacca in the same cantina where they had originally met months earlier. But the celebration is cut short as Fixer arrives to warn Luke that the Empire is aware that the young Rebel is on Tatooine and actively searching for him.
Media
Cover gallery
Collected in
- Star Wars Weekly 73 - 75
- Star Wars: A Long Time Ago... Volume 2: Dark Encounters
- Star Wars Omnibus: A Long Time Ago.... Volume 2
- Star Wars: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Vol. 1
- Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Original Marvel Years Vol. 2
Appearances
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Sources
- Star Wars Year By Year: A Visual History, Updated and Expanded Edition
- Star Wars Year By Year: A Visual History, New Edition
Notes and references
- ↑ The Comic Reader #173 and The Comics Journal #50, provided by Marvel
- ↑ The New Essential Chronology dates the events of the 1977 Star Wars comic series to the first few months of 0 ABY, while The Essential Reader's Companion dates the events up until issue 35 to before Star Wars: Vader's Quest and Rebel Force: Trapped, which it dates to two months after the Battle of Yavin.
- ↑ Star Wars (1977) 31