Following up on Monday’s mysterious teaser, Marvel Comics and Lucasfilm have announced that Boba Fett will lead the upcoming Star Wars comic book crossover event, War of the Bounty Hunters. Charles Soule orchestrates the event, which begins in War of the Bounty Hunters: Alpha #1 on May 5th (the day after Star Wars Day), featuring art by Steve McNiven. The story continues to unfold throughout a five-issue War of the Bounty Hunters miniseries from Soule and artist Luke Ross, with tie-ins to every post-The Empire Strikes Back title in Marvel’s Star Wars line, including Star Wars, Bounty Hunters, Darth Vader, and Doctor Aphra. War of the Bounty Hunters reveals what happened after Boba Fett left Cloud City with Han Solo carbon-frozen in Slave-1’s cargo hold in The Empire Strikes Back, but before he landed at Jabba’s palace on Tatooine.

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