Randy Stradley

Randy Stradley is a writer and Vice President of Publishing for Dark Horse Comics. He has also written under pseudonyms Mick Harrison and Welles Hartley.[1]

Life and career

Born in the mid 1950s, Stradley's work on issue 86 of Marvel's Star Wars series in 1984 was his very first work in the comics industry. He later went on to become Vice President at Dark Horse Comics and a business partner with Mike Richardson, who founded a company (Dark Horse Comics) focused on allowing creators to retain ownership of the characters they created in 1986.[2]

In 1988, Dark Horse acquired the rights to Twentieth Century Fox's Aliens franchise, and a year later the Predator license. In 1990, Stradley wrote the crossover, Aliens Versus Predator (comics). Dark Horse Comics acquired the license for Star Wars Comics in the early 1990s, a few years after the end of the Marvel run and in the build-up to the prequels, and began relaunching the Star Wars line with such titles as Classic Star Wars (reprinting the original Star Wars newspaper strips), Dark Empire, Tales of the Jedi, Dark Empire II, etc. Stradley and Richardson later joined forces to write the Crimson Empire miniseries, focusing on the Emperor's Royal Guard.

Stradley also took over the role of Senior Editor for Dark Horse's Star Wars series in 2002,[3] after the release of Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones.

Works

Aliens Versus Predator

Marvel Star Wars

Crimson Empire (with Mike Richardson)

Dark Times

Empire

Jedi Council

Republic

Star Wars Tales

The Bounty Hunters

Other

References

  1. ↑ Star Wars Insider 127
  2. ↑ "Interview with Mike Richardson, May 2014".
  3. ↑ "Dark Horse 'Star Wars' Editor Randy Stradley Finds A Silver Lining In Franchise Moving To Marvel". Comics Alliance. Retrieved 2016-02-28.
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