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Marvel & Star Wars Art Unites Spider-Man & Luke Skywalker in an Epic Crossover

The five-issue series sends Marvel heroes into A New Hope and is set in canon to the main Marvel timeline, with preorders available now.

  • Marvel Comics and Lucasfilm announced 'Hope Assembles,' a five-issue crossover series launching in January 2027, written by filmmaker Kevin Smith with artwork by Ultimate Spider-Man artist David Marquez.
  • This historic collaboration celebrates the 50th anniversary of A New Hope, marking the first long-form story where Star Wars officially collides with Earth-616, the main Marvel Universe, following a reality-shattering spell.
  • Filmmaker Smith expressed his lifelong desire to see "Spider-Man or Doctor Doom could cross over" into Star Wars, and the series features villains like Doctor Doom joining forces with Darth Vader and the Empire.
  • Marvel unveiled exclusive variant covers at New York Comic Con, including an 'Alliance Variant' by artist Alex Ross featuring Luke Skywalker and Spider-Man, plus covers by Kaare Andrews and Dan Jurgens.
  • Fans can preorder the series at local comic shops ahead of its January 2027 debut, with the five-part limited series concluding in May 2027, coinciding with the original film's anniversary month.
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By Erick E. Beltran, CNN en Español Marvel and Star Wars will join their universes in a new comic book that will bring together some of the most iconic characters from both franchises. This is “Star Wars/Marvel: Hope Assembles #1”, a series of six-issue comics that will include Spider-Man, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Avengers and Chewbacca, among others. The plot will also face two of their main antagonists: Doctor Doom and Darth Va…

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ComicBook.com broke the news on Saturday, October 10, 2026.
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