Ten Years Ago, Darth Vader’s First Ongoing Series Debuted | News World

In every Look Back, we examine a comic book issue from 10/25/50/75 years ago (plus a wild card every month with a fifth week in it). This time around, we head to February 2015 for the debut of Darth Vader’s very first ongoing comic book series.

One of the strangest things about licensed products is that there rarely is as consistent of a market as you might think that there “should” be for any given piece of intellectual property. In a lot of cases, a property only has a specific period where it is “hot,” and then you really can’t revisit it all that well. For instance, Rom the Spaceknight sold fine for its era, but it doesn’t seem like there is necessarily a current market for Rom, despite him being so popular for a while there in the 1980s. Look at how popular Transformers is…more

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