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The Essential Guide to Characters (Star Wars) Paperback – October 24, 1995

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KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE EMPIRE! RESEARCH THE REBELS!
*Features detailed profiles of all the most important characters in the Star Wars universe
*Covers the movies, the books--classic and new--the comics, the TV specials, the games, and the rest of the expanding universe of Star Wars
*Describes the history and personality of each character, with vital statistics, weapons of choice, and vehicles used
*Includes photographs and original line drawings--with multiple illustrations of most characters for better visual reference
*Brings you up-to-date on recent characters and events if you've been away from the Star Wars universe for a while.
THE UNIVERSE OF STAR WARS IS EXPANDING FASTER THAN EVER BEFORE...
WITH THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO CHARACTERS IN HAND, YOU'LL NEVER LOSE YOUR WAY.

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October 24, 1995
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0345395352
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You can find countless guides to the many gadgets and gizmos in the Star Wars universe--Bill Smith's Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology, which covers everything from ship-mounted turbo-lasers to combat remotes, is just one example. But what about all the characters in Star Wars? Look, a good book about remotes is one thing. A good book about the living? That's something else.

Lucky for us, Andy Mangels has pored over all the movies and the collateral novels, comics, and computer games to put together this illustrated guide to the major and minor characters of the Star Wars universe. As would be expected, many pages are lavished on the likes of Vader and Solo, but bit players like Salacious Crumb (Jabba's cackling monkey-lizard pet) and Lobot (Cloud City's cyborg majordomo) aren't forgotten. An impressive survey in both depth and breadth, this guide fills in the gaps on some of Star Wars' most well-known personalities (who knew Luke's nickname was "Wormy"?) while revealing characters you may have never heard of (like Han and Leia's twin kids!). --Paul Hughes

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KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE EMPIRE! RESEARCH THE REBELS!
*Features detailed profiles of all the most important characters in the Star Wars universe
*Covers the movies, the books--classic and new--the comics, the TV specials, the games, and the rest of the expanding universe of Star Wars
*Describes the history and personality of each character, with vital statistics, weapons of choice, and vehicles used
*Includes photographs and original line drawings--with multiple illustrations of most characters for better visual reference
*Brings you up-to-date on recent characters and events if you've been away from the Star Wars universe for a while.
THE UNIVERSE OF STAR WARS IS EXPANDING FASTER THAN EVER BEFORE...
WITH THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO CHARACTERS IN HAND, YOU'LL NEVER LOSE YOUR WAY.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Del Rey; First Printing edition (October 24, 1995)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 199 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0345395352
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0345395351
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.45 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.4 x 0.4 x 10.8 inches

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anthony b.

The cover could have been in better shape but the book was worth getting and then some.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 26, 2021

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I first read the New Essential Guide to Characters, this books successor, all the way back in elementary school, before I'd read more than seven or eight expands universe books (nearly all of which were middle grade stories). I spent a long, long time assuming that because I'd read that book, I didn't need to read this one and boy was I wrong. This book is cable to give a lot of detail to the main characters in ways that the other omnibus never did, with pages and pages of details. It's a nostalgic reminder of a simpler time, when there were so few Star Wars books out there that even the protagonists of isolated short stories warranted a page in the essential guide to characters. The writing style is somewhat charming and whimsical compared to the more matter of fact recounts in most of the new essential guide to character entries. Of course plenty of great characters aren't mentioned due to not having been introduced yet, but hey, that's why they wrote the new essential guide to characters.
This is a book for most to all Star Wars fans (although looking fo it in your library databases before ordering it might not be a bad idea). My biggest regret about the book is the shape the cover is in rather than anything inside, and even that can be remedied with proper treatment.

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D-Unit

Good book from a Nostalgia standpoint, but obviously a little outdated.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 25, 2020

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I had this book when I was in high school and loved it, it was all we had to learn about other characters that weren't in the movies, or what happened after the original Star Wars trilogy. This might be hard to believe for some of the younger readers, but there was a time when there was only the 3 original Star Wars films, and nothing else, so books like this were really cool. However, 25+ years later, a lot of this stuff has been retconned or outdated. Overall, a great book that reminds me of when I was younger and got it at a great price.

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JAMES MANDRELL WATSON

The original cannon of Star Wars.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 16, 2022

I love this book, because it's a blueprint on what really happened in some of the Star Wars universe, before the new cannon came about and ..... you know the rest.
Several things in this book I pointed out to people who couldn't nor believe what or why these things happened in SW this book explains a few.
Example.
When and where Luke and Vader first fought, and where??
When Leia first pick up a lightsaber.
Ben telling Luke about choosing to face Vader he will do it alone.
Darth Vader's original planet he called home and it was not the lava world either.
How Boba felt discovered who Luke Skywalker was, and it wasn't on Luke's home world.
Luke Skywalker's wife.
All this and then some are answered in this book. This book you can take and make your own objections with, but for me it was a blast from the past to read the original cannon before it was it almost it not all erased out of existence.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 23, 2013

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A little outdated but it's a great reading. The book is from 1999, so it's missing what happened in the last decade about the Star wars Universe.

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Peter Mckay

Great reference book.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 19, 2014

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Covering the 3 original movies this book is one in a series I got for a friend with an autistic son. They are a wealth of information and very interesting.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 30, 2017

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What i was looking for.

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Ben Jackson

... time (and younger siblings) so it makes me very happy to not only re-own this but to have something ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 1, 2017

I bought this book many years ago when I was just getting into the Star wars franchise but sadly that copy was lost to the ravages of time (and younger siblings) so it makes me very happy to not only re-own this but to have something from before the series got its reboot with the prequels,the Disney canon and everything in between.

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Tanner

This book highlights what the Star Wars universe is really ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 1, 2015

This book highlights what the Star Wars universe is really about.
Before George Lucas ruined his own vision with Jar Jar Binks and a whiny Anakin Skywalker.
True star wars doctrine ...

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K. D.

Nostalgia from a simpler time the Star Wars franchise

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 7, 2021

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First published in the mid-1990’s, before Star Wars would become deluded with the special editions and the contradictory overly kiddie friendly prequels and the much hated sequels and Disney’s new cannon.
when the magic and hopes were so strong because all there was was the innocence of greatly loved and appreciated original trilogy(pre-special edition), the early years of dark horse comics, the much loved and praised Thrawn novel trilogy was still fresh.
A time when the sky seemed the limit in great in Star Wars story telling. When we all thought that the upcoming prequels would resemble the quality of filmmaking that would eventually become the Lord Of The Rings trilogy filmmaking. We had not yet had our hearts broken and hopes and dreams dashed by Jake Skywalker drinking milk from a sea cow.
A book from a simpler time.

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