Untitled Star Wars/Superman crossover

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An untitled crossover comic book between the Star Wars and Superman franchises was an unpublished mini-series from Dark Horse Comics, presumably in collaboration with DC Comics.

Development

Around the late 2000s, Howard Chaykin noted there was a period in which Lucasfilm was interested in teaming up with other brands which included a possible pairing between Indiana Jones and Batman that didn't come to pass.[2] Having worked for Dark Horse Comics in some covers for their Star Wars comic books due to having been a fan of the franchise since seeing the 1977 film Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, Alex Ross put together alongside Kurt Busiek, already experienced in cross-brand stories like 2003-2004's DC Comics/Marvel Comics miniseries JLA/Avengers, a pitch for a crossover between Star Wars and DC Comics heroes. To present the pitch, Ross did a number of art pieces, including a Superman vs. Darth Vader and a mash-up piece of the Rebel Alliance heroes with the Justice League.[1]

Unfortunately, according to Busiek's Twitter account in 2017, the Star Wars/Superman crossover ultimately fell apart due to the corporate parties involved not being able to agree on how to divvy up the money, which while not exactly a rejection, thus signaled the project's ending.[1] In the Tampa Bay Comic Convention 2024, former DC publisher Dan DiDio apparently elaborated that he cancelled the project due to these fights, which also involved which character would look better or would have their heroic moments, leading him to conclude that the project wasn't worth it and didn't make sense. DiDio admitted the creator (without explicitly naming Busiek or Ross) got angry with him due to brokering the deal. Busiek later said that DiDio may have been confused, as the project fell apart due to DC wanting half of the money just like Lucasfilm as well as Dark Horse, himself and Ross.[3]

Continuity

" And in another part of the galaxy, his disturbance in the Force would cause a red sun to explode — destroying a nearby planet whose sole survivor would grow to become Earth's greatest hero — but that's another story and an entirely different publishing house, so we'll just focus on the first two..."
―Narration of Tag & Bink: Revenge of the Clone Menace[4]

So far, the Superman franchise's only "crossover" with Star Wars was in the 2006 non-canonical comic book Tag & Bink: Revenge of the Clone Menace, the fourth and last installment of the Star Wars: Tag & Bink comic book series. There, the narration discretly states how Darth Plagueis caused Superman's origins by his strong disturbance in the Force exploding Krypton's red sun and destroying the planet, resulting in Superman being sent to become the Earth's greatest hero.[4]

While the Star Wars franchise never crossed over with any DC Comics ones and it's highly unlikely they ever will now that The Walt Disney Company owns the franchise since Lucasfilm's acquisition by them in 2012 while DC is owned by Warner Bros.,[1] the galaxy far, far away did form a crossover with the video game franchise Soulcalibur, including the 2008 comic book arc Star Wars: Visions of the Blade,[5] in addition to the lenghty line of licensed Star Wars Transformers toys between 2005-2011.[6][7]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Premium-Era-real Star Wars: Did Superman Almost Fight Darth Vader?! by Brian Kronin on ComicBookResources (October 6, 2024) (backup link archived on October 7, 2024)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Premium-Era-real You lost today Episode 146, but that doesn’t mean you have to like it by Ed Dolista on IndyCast (June 25, 2012) (backup link archived on October 28, 2021)
  3. ↑ Premium-Era-real The real story on the Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman crossover with Star Wars that DC and Lucasfilm were cooking up (and why it didn't happen) by Joshua Lapin-Bertone on Popverse (September 30, 2024) (backup link archived on October 1, 2024)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Tag & Bink: Revenge of the Clone Menace
  5. ↑ Star Wars: Visions of the Blade
  6. ↑ Premium-Era-real Star Wars Transformers on TFWiki.net (backup link archived on September 13, 2009)
  7. ↑ Premium-Era-real Transformers: Crossovers on TFWiki.net (backup link archived on November 8, 2011)