Target Vader 2

Target Vader 2

Publisher's summary[]

THE HUNTER BECOMES THE HUNTED! VALANCE and DENGAR track DARTH VADER while also seeking out the perfect weapon to kill the SITH LORD…which they'll need as Vader turns the tables on the hunters and corners them! And both hunter and hunted uncover dark secrets behind the criminal syndicate known only as THE HIDDEN HAND.

Opening crawl[]

With the power of the dark side of the Force and the might of the Empire,Darth Vader is the most dangerous being in the galaxy. But he is notwithout his challengers.The cyborg Beilert Valance, along with fellow with bounty hunters Honnah,Urrr'k, Chio Fain and Dengar, have been contracted by the mysteriousorganization the Hidden Hand to achieve one goal: Kill Vader.But Vader's also on the hunt for the Hidden Hand. And he's picked upthe bounty hunters' trail....

Plot summary[]

Years before thehunt for Vader, a youngBeilert Valance askshis father if he would be a miner onChorin forever like he andhis grandfather were. His father says he is proud of his work, but he adds that theValance family had been miners for centuries asslaves before theGalactic Empire arrived and liberated them. Beilert was born a free man, and his father believed he belonged elsewhere.

In the present day, Valance shoots down twoTIE fighters in theBroken Wing.Dengar chastises him, butChio Fain reassures him that the TIEs were just scouts, and Valance had a communications jammer. Landing onArvina in theOuter Rim Territories, Valance ordersUrrr'k to stay with the ship while he takes the rest of the crew toFetya's Hollow in search of weapons.Fetya greets them in her shop, and Valance explains that they were hired by theHidden Hand. Fetya reveals her dealings with the group as well, pointing to aRebel Alliance starbird left by one of the Hidden Hand's buyers, but she denies any status as a "good guy" and surrounds the crew with hired guns. Before she can kill them, however, her shop is destroyed by aStar Destroyer overhead.

Valance's team escapes Fetya's Hollow in a stolen troop transport, and he reveals that he never jammed the TIEs' communications, rather amplified their signal with Hidden Hand call signs. As a result, Darth Vader himself arrives inhis TIE fighter and prepares to shoot the crew down, but they escape aboard theBroken Wing intohyperspace. Once they exit, Chio Fain explains that he sliced into Fetya's records and has a list of Hidden Hand outposts Vader will soon visit—outposts they can trap him at. Back on Arvina, Vader kills Fetya and her crew, and hisstormtroopers secure her weapons supply. They also inform him that Valance has exited hyperspace, as they had received a transmission from an informant about where Valance is going.

Media[]

Editions[]

• UPC 759606093960;August 14,2019;Marvel Comics^[1]
  • 00211; Cover A;Nic Klein
  • 00221; Cover B;John McCrea &Mike Spicer

Cover gallery[]

Cover A

Cover A, cover art

Cover B

Cover B, unlettered

Collected in[]

• Star Wars: Target Vader trade paperback

Appearances[]

Notes and references[]

External links[]

• Star Wars: Target Vader (2019) #2 onMarvel Comics'official website(backup link)
• Star Wars: Target Vader (2019) #2 (Variant) onMarvel Comics'official website(backup link)