Fan-Favorite Star Wars Bounty Hunters Join Darth Maul Comic

Marvel Comics goes to the time before Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace in their newest [...]

By ComicBook.com Staff

Marvel Comics goes to the time before Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace in their newest Star Wars comic, Darth Maul. The first issue launches in February, revealing some of Maul's past as he was apprentice to Darth Sidious, and his first encounter with a Jedi, before anyone named "Skywalker" or "Kenobi" came into his life. But in the third issue, which the solicitation came out for today, he'll be joined by a pair of familiar faces. The solicitation text and cover reveal that Cad Bane and Aurra Sing, fan-favorite bounty hunters that appeared primarily in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Aurra was in the prequel trilogy too). The text reads:

STAR WARS: DARTH MAUL #3 (OF 5)
CULLEN BUNN (W) • LUKE ROSS (A)
Cover by RAFAEL ALBUQUERQUE
VARIANT COVER BY DAVID LOPEZ
VARIANT COVER BY DECLAN SHALVEY
VARIANT COVER BY JORGE MOLINA

• An evil crime syndicate is auctioning off a Jedi Padawan…

• …that Darth Maul plans to take — and kill — for his own.

• Featuring: a band of bounty hunters including Cad Bane and Aurra Sing!

32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99

Star Wars © Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All rights reserved. Used under authorization. Text and illustrations for Star Wars are © 2016 Lucasfilm Ltd.

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Fans have been hoping that Cad Bane and other bounty hunters to show up in live action, or even on Star Wars Rebels, but there haven't been any confirmations just yet, only rumors. Still, when a character is brought into something like the cartoon or a comic book to raise their profile, those rumors and hype level are only going to increase. At least this way fans get a new story with Cad Bane and Aurra Sing - it should be especially interesting to see how that pair, both pretty darn arrogant, fair when up against a genuine Sith Lord.

NEXT: Star Wars Solicitations from Marvel Comics April 2017

Darth Maul kicks off in February from writer Cullen Bunn and artist Luke Ross. You can see all the Star Wars solicitations for April 2017 along with the rest of Marvel Comics at the link above. See the full cover and the other April Star Wars covers below.

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