Marvel Comics has announced its first-ever Star Wars: Jedi Knights comic series. The reveal of the new ongoing series came at the Lucasfilm Publishing panel during this year’s New York Comic Con.

Star Wars: Jedi Knights will be Marvel’s first ongoing series focusing on the legendary guardians of peace and justice, and it will be written by acclaimed Star Wars Writer Marc Guggenheim and drawn by Madibek Musabekov (Star Wars, X-Men Red). The new series will take place before The Phantom Menace, with different members of the Jedi Order going on adventures, including Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Count Dooku, Mace Windu, and Yoda. Marvel also teased that the series will introduce new Jedi characters who served the Republic during the pivotal era in Star Wars history. Marvel revealed the main cover and two special Lightsaber Foil variants for Star Wars: Jedi Knights #1, which goes on sale in March 2025.

Each issue of Star Wars: Jedi Knights will put the spotlight on a different Jedi duo on their missions throughout the galaxy, allowing readers to learn more about the Jedi Order as fans came to know it during the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy. An overarching threat will bind each of the duos together, with Marvel teasing a mysterious new villain targeting Qui-Gon Jinn for death, forcing the Jedi Order to evolve for a new age as the story progresses.

“Marc and Madibek deliver a blockbuster first issue with a cliffhanger that kicks off one action-packed issue after another featuring your favorite knights,” Marvel Editor Mark Paniccia teased. “You’ve literally never seen so much lightsaber action in a comic book!”

STAR WARS: JEDI KNIGHTS #1

Written by MARC GUGGENHEIM Art by MADIBEK MUSABEKOV Cover Art by RAHZZAH Lightsaber Foil Variant Cover by TAURIN CLARKE On Sale March 2025

Marvel Celebrates Star Wars Legacy in Comics

The Star Wars franchise has been adapted into various comic book series dating all the way back to the 1977 debut of the film series. Marvel was the first to launch its original Star Wars comics, which ran for ten years until 1987. In 2015, the Star Wars comics license returned to Marvel, launching several new series, including Star Wars: Darth Vader and Doctor Aphra. Over the course of the last ten years, Marvel has been exploring every inch of the Star Wars universe in its comic offerings.

Marvel’s current era of Star Wars comics began with Jason Aaron and John Cassady’s Star Wars #1, and now — ten years later — Aaron returns alongside other Star Wars writers Charles Soule and Kieron Gillen for a new one-shot story, Star Wars: A New Legacy. The special issue will celebrate Marvel’s ten years of Star Wars comics and spotlight iconic characters that made their debut in Marvel’s stories. The one-shot will hit comic book shops in January.

Star Wars: Jedi Knights #1 goes on sale March 2025, and the issue can be pre-ordered now at local comic book shops.

Source: Marvel