"The Keeper's World" is a serialized comic story published through nine issues of Marvel Comics' magazine Pizzazz from October 1977 to June 1978.
The story was reprinted in the UK in Star Wars Weekly 47–50 in 1978–79, and in the 1999 limited-release comic Star Wars 0.
Plot summary
Sometime after the Battle of Yavin, Luke and Leia travel toward the Rebel base in the Akuria system to insure against a sudden Imperial counterattack on Yavin 4. En route to the planet, a mistake by R2-D2, who appears to not have been properly repaired after the Battle of Yavin, causes the ship to fly wildly off course. After a near-miss with an Imperial fleet, Luke and Leia encounter four android children capable of controlling the elements and a computerized "Keeper" on a formerly war-torn world who enables them to escape the Imperials.
Media
Issues
| # | Title | Issue | Date | Author |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Part 1 (Untitled) | Pizzazz 1 | Roy Thomas | |
| 2 | Part 2 (Untitled) | Pizzazz 2 | Roy Thomas | |
| 3 | "Dread Discovery!" | Pizzazz 3 | Roy Thomas | |
| 4 | "A Matter of Monsters!" | Pizzazz 4 | Roy Thomas | |
| 5 | "Pursuit among the Ruins!" | Pizzazz 5 | Roy Thomas | |
| 6 | "Do You Know What Your Children Are?" | Pizzazz 6 | Roy Thomas | |
| 7 | "Caverns of Mystery!" | Pizzazz 7 | Archie Goodwin | |
| 8 | "The Keeper's Secret!" | Pizzazz 8 | Archie Goodwin | |
| 9 | "The Final Fury!" | Pizzazz 9 | Archie Goodwin |
Collected in
- Pizzazz 1
- Star Wars Weekly 47 –50 (December 27, 1978–January 17, 1979)
- Star Wars 0 (June 1997)
- Star Wars Omnibus: Wild Space Volume 1
- Star Wars: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Vol. 3
- Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Original Marvel Years Vol. 1
Sources
Notes and references
- ↑ Pizzazz 1
- ↑ "The Keeper's World" and "The Kingdom of Ice" depict the Rebel Alliance still occupying their base on Yavin 4 after the Battle of Yavin, meaning that the stories must fall between Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope and the Evacuation of Yavin as shown in "Doom Mission". The New Essential Chronology dates the Battle of Yavin and Evacuation of Yavin to 0 ABY and 0.5 ABY respectively.