Empereur Palpatine

A shadow looming over the entire galaxy, Empereur Palpatine made his Modern Age comics catalog entrance in 2015's Star Wars #3, brought to the page by the formidable creative team of Jason Aaron, Thomas Davier, and John Cassaday under Panini France's banner. Across a run stretching into the early 2020s, this imperial presence surfaces in titles like Star Wars, Je suis Dark Vador, and Star Wars Hors Série, keeping sinister company with the likes of Dark Vador, Anakin Skywalker, Luke Skywalker, and Docteur Aphra. With only 9 catalog appearances, each one carries real weight — this is a character whose presence is felt rather than sprawling, a collector's focused portrait of one of fiction's most iconic architects of power. If you're tracing the dark heart of the Star Wars comics universe through a French-language lens, Empereur Palpatine is an unmissable piece of the puzzle.