During the San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel announced that The Dark Lord of the Sith is set to headline a big crossover between the publisher’s Star Wars books entitled Star Wars: Vader Down, and thanks to ComicBook we’ve got a look at the first two covers from the event…
Meanwhile, Marvel has also revealed that it expects to shift between 225,000 and 250,000 copies of the first collected edition of the main Star Wars title – which is a huge number compared to the usual Marvel trade paperbacks, which sell between 30,000 and 50,000.
“When Star Wars #1 was released at the beginning of the year we were thrilled at the reception and the record-setting sales numbers. Once again, Star Wars continues to skyrocket the Marvel name even higher with the anticipated pre-order print-run between 200K and 250K units for Star Wars Vol 1 TPB,” said David Gabriel, SVP Print, Sales and Marketing. “This is an unheard of number, but given the success that we’ve had with Star Wars since January, including the insurmountable 5MM units across all the Star Wars’ series, second prints and overprints, we don’t see any issue in reaching such a number of printed copies of this highly anticipated collected edition.”
