Overview
- Marvel and Lucasfilm released official preview pages and variant-cover art on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026, and listed Star Wars | Marvel: Hope Assembles #1 with an on-sale date of January 13, 2027.
- The six-issue miniseries by Kevin Smith and David Marquez places the events of A New Hope inside Marvel’s Earth-616 so Luke, Leia, Han and Chewie meet Marvel heroes such as Spider-Man and the Avengers.
- Preview pages reimagine A New Hope’s opening with Marvel characters inserted into key moments, including panels that show Iron Man in Vader’s debut and Captain America facing stormtroopers.
- Publishers announced an organized variant-cover program plus preview inserts that will run in select Marvel issues, a rollout clearly aimed at driving collector orders and retail interest.
- The crossover is part of Lucasfilm’s A New Hope 50th anniversary slate that also includes a Welsh-language release, a Franklin Institute exhibition and a limited theatrical rerelease, and it revives Marvel’s long history with Star Wars dating back to 1977.