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As Marvel prepares to launch new Star Wars comics starting in January 2015, they are going to be taking a look back at all six films (to date) – one installment at a time. First up is Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, released theatrically on May 19, 1999.

Following is a small preview:

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In the final days of the Galactic Republic, the Jedi Knights, wielders of the mysterious power of the Force, remained stalwart defenders of the galaxy, though their ordered world was crumbling around them. Operating from their temple on the city-planet of Coruscant, seat of the Galactic Senate, the Jedi High Council answered calls for aid from the thousands of planets that made up the Republic.

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