Star Wars: Battle of the Bounty Hunters

Star Wars Legends: One-Shots

by Ryder Windham, Christopher Moeller (Illustrator)

Battle of the Bounty Hunters was a pop-up comic and part of the Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire multimedia campaign. It showed the space battle between Boba Fett and IG-88D.

Genres: Star Wars, Comics, Comic Book, Science Fiction, Graphic Novels, Media Tie In

12 pages, Hardcover

First published July 23, 1996

About the author

Ryder Windham is an American sci-fi author who has written over sixty Star Wars books, including novels, comics, reference books, and so on. He has also written junior novelizations for Indiana Jones movies. Since 1993, he has been working on Star Wars projects either by himself or with other authors. His reference book Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide had been on the New York Times Best Seller list for three weeks in 2005. Although he has written lots of books, accepted interviews, and appeared at several fan-conventions, little is known about his personal life.

Reviews

[João Luís Ferreira · Rating 4 out of 5]

Livro muito pequeno mas muito bem executado.
Um pop-up é sempre fascinante.
História interessante como prelúdio para "O regresso de Jedi".
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Very small book but very well executed.
A pop-up is always fascinating.
Interesting story as a prelude to "the return of the Jedi."

[Kelly Lynn Thomas · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is very short, but so much fun. It's a pop-up comic book! There are even entire panels that pop up.

[Jordan · Rating 1 out of 5]

Way too short to have a story.

[Kai Charles(Fiction State Of Mind) · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a really fun read. I had read the original comic years ago, this pop up book has some gorgeous illustrations. A nice addition to a Star Wars fans shelf.

[Alyce Caswell · Rating 3 out of 5]

I honestly have no idea who the intended audience of this book is. Too simplistic for adult readers, too delicate for younger readers. I only have this because it's part of my near-complete collection of pre-Disney EU books and I pulled it out to placate the toddler who keeps trying to nick Union. He seemed amused by it and for once didn't try to grab the pages. Maybe it isn't so bad after all?

2022

EDIT:

This doesn't really match the Legends canon, as laid out by Shadows of the Empire, but honestly it was more fun. A brief bit of entertainment, with bonus popups. Wow, my toddler is now at school. Time flies.

Ahem. Rating unchanged.

2025

[Ruth · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun pop-up comic of Fett's struggle getting Solo to Jabba after he was frozen in carbonite.

[J A SPONG · Rating 5 out of 5]

Before I had seen the Transformers pop up book by Matthew Reinhart, this was my favourite pop up book. Still a very good book with a basic story but great artwork and pop up elements.

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would only give it 2 stars, but the fact it's a pop up comic book made me give it 3.