Star Wars 2 : Six Against the Galaxy Star Wars 2 : Six Against the Galaxy is the second issue of the " Marvel Star Wars " series of comics . Plot summary . Luke Skywalker is rescued from an attacking band of Sand People by Obi - Wan Kenobi . Once Luke , Obi - Wan , and the two droids R2 - D2 and C - 3PO are safely in Obi - Wan Kenobi ' s hut , R2 plays a recorded message for Kenobi from the Princess Leia Organa asking him to bring the little droid and the critial information contained within its memory to Alderaan . Initially Luke refuses to accompany Obi - Wan on his journey because of his obligations at home , but upon realizing that his home has been destroyed and his uncle Owen and aunt Beru have been killed by Imperial stormtroopers he agrees to go along . They hire Han Solo and Chewbacca to pilot them to Alderaan aboard the " Millennium Falcon " . Behind the scenes . This is part two of the six - part adaptation of " " . This is the first comic book appearance for Obi - Wan Kenobi , Han Solo , and Chewbacca . The lightsaber makes its comic debut in this issue , although it is spelled " lightsabre , " and has a pink blade rather than blue . This issue includes the Han Solo and Jabba the Hutt Docking Bay 94 scene that wasn ' t finished for the film . ( Hutt is spelled " Hut " in this issue , as it was in all official " Star Wars " material before 1983 . ) Rather than portray Jabba as he appeared in the filmed version of the scene ( a large Human wearing furs , as played by Declan Mulholland ) — which was never meant to be how Jabba would have looked in the film anyway , had the scene been completed — the likeness of Mosep Binneed , a Nimbanel seen in the background during the Mos Eisley scenes , was used . This likeness of Jabba was also used in " " and " " . After " " officially established what Jabba looked like , it was decided to make Mosep an associate of Jabba , and the Nimbanese a species of Hutt servants . The article " Red Five " in " Star Wars Insider 149 " has established that the " Jabba " in the Marvel comics is in fact Mosep , who sometimes used Jabba ' s name in interactions . Similarly , Garindan and the IT - O interrogation droid look different in this issue from the way they do in the film . As editor Roy Thomas would explain in the letters column of , much of the artwork for the early Marvel issues was based on an unfinished cut of the film with incomplete post - production , so the Marvel artists didn ' t have access to many final images before their version went to press . In her message to Obi - Wan Kenobi , Princess Leia states that one " Bail Antillies " is her father . Bail Antilles was later mentioned in " " . In 2007 , the Marvel adaptation of " A New Hope " was released in a trade paperback and bundled with the 2006 DVD release of " A New Hope " . " Bail Antillies " was replaced with " Bail Organa " in this edition . On the cover of both this issue and the previous one , the first and last two letters of the " Star Wars " logo are not attached to each other . The original cover price for this issue was 30 cents . There were also several reprint versions , easily identified by " Reprint " in the upper left hand corner of the cover or on the inside indicia , or by the price and number appearing inside a diamond on the cover with no date or UPC . These " Reprint " versions were found in the bagged comic three packs commonly found at department and drug stores in the 1970s and 1980s . The first eighteen or so issues of this series are available in the bagged three packs . In 1994 , Dark Horse Comics acquired the rights to reprint this issue and the other parts in the adaptation . In 2007 , this issue was reprinted and included in Hasbro ' s Comic Packs along with a Governor Tarkin and a stormtrooper action figure . Along with the first issue , this is one of the most reprinted comics of all time . It has been reprinted along with the other five parts of the adaptation in standard formats and also large treasury size and small novel size editions .