This initial prelude issue comes before a multi issue cross-over with other comic titles in May and also becomes a five-issue mini series in June.

Written by Charles Soule. Cover and art by Steve McNiven with color by Laura Martin.

Cover/teaser revealed on StarWars.com on February 15, 2021.

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There are many variants. See all of the Alpha #1 variants here or scroll down below.

This regular cover may be based on Marc Spector: Moon Knight #55 (1993).

25 pages.

The 34-part cross-overs goes like this.

Summary for this issue:

"THE STAR WARS COMIC EVENT YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!

The notorious bounty hunter BOBA FETT has finally landed his greatest prize - HAN SOLO, frozen in carbonite for easy transport.

Fett will bring the smuggler to TATOOINE to collect the massive bounty placed on Solo's head by the fearsome crime lord JABBA THE HUTT.

Sounds easy. What could go wrong?"

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