Star Wars: Republic #51 for Sale - First Appearance of Durge - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Star Wars: Republic (Dark Horse, 2002 series)
Issue: #51
Publication date: March 2003
Key date: 2003-03-00
On-sale date: 2003
Indicia publisher: Dark Horse Comics Inc.
Price: $2.99; 4.99 CAD
Pages: 32
Barcode: 76156898022605111

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Durge - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Graveyard Moon	cover	1	pencils: Mozart Couto; inks: Mozart Couto; colors: Mozart Couto	Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker
1	The New Face of War, Part 1 of 2	comic story	22	script: Haden Blackman; pencils: Tomás Giorello; inks: Curtis Arnold; colors: Joe Wayne; letters: Digital Chameleon	C-3PO, Durge First, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Asajj Ventress

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Newsstand	barcode 07098932526584

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Victories and Sacrifices ISBN 9781840236705	2003	On eBay ›
Clone Wars ISBN 978-0-7851-9553-5	2016	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #506 of 38#52 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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