And in the newest issue of Star Wars: Bounty Hunters, out today, we get to see Valance’s reaction to all that.īounty Hunters #18 opens with a flashback to Beilert’s youth, when he idolized the Empire and was inspired by an Imperial “hero” named Captain Tarl Sokoli who eliminated the pirates occupying the mines of his home planet of Chorin.Ĭut to roughly 20 years later, when Valance is held captive in a tiny cell aboard Darth Vader’s Super Star Destroyer Executor. Valance knocks Dengar out with a single punch, sparing his life for unknown reasons.At the end of Marvel’s War of the Bounty Hunters crossover event, the cyborg Beilert Valance was captured by Darth Vader and the Galactic Empire, reconstructed after briefly dying on the operating table, and forced into apparent servitude. Valance tracks Dengar to Coruscant where Dengar is bragging about his exploits. Valance works out his own plan with Vader, and after giving Vader what he desires, Valance is able to escape. Valance had a chance to plant an EMP on Vader that would have destroyed his breathing mechanics but is stopped by Dengar who blasts him in the chest. Vader slaughters the majority of the crew when he finally catches up to the hunters. He informs the Dark Lord of the hunters' locations a number of times. Unfortunately for the bounty hunters, Dengar is working as a double agent for Darth Vader. Valance was not thrilled about working with Dengar this time either, as they had a previous partnership that had also gone south. They were put together on a large team of bounty hunters with the task of eliminating Darth Vader. Robbie Thompson and Marc Laming's Star Wars: Target Vader miniseries tells the story of a previous partnership between the two deadly bounty hunters.
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