Jedi Quest
novel series
Jedi Quest is an eleven-book young reader series written by Jude Watson about Obi-Wan Kenobi and his apprentice Anakin Skywalker. It is set in the fictional Star Wars universe between Episode I: The Phantom Menace and Episode II: Attack of the Clones (32–22 BBY). The series was published by Scholastic from 2001 to 2004.
Publication history
Jude Watson wrote the eleven book Jedi Quest series: Path to Truth was published in 2001; The Way of the Apprentice, The Trail of the Jedi, The Dangerous Games, and The Master of Disguise were published in 2002; The Moment of Truth, The School of Fear, and The Shadow Trap were published in 2003; The Changing of the Guard, The False Peace, and The Final Showdown were published in 2004. The introductory novel, Path to Truth, is unnumbered, meaning the last ten books of the eleven-book series are numbered 1–10. Pablo Hidalgo, in the Star Wars: The Essential Reader's Companion, explained that "in 2000, the publishing and product development teams at Lucas Licensing first planned the Jedi Quest banner to encompass books, comics, toys and roleplaying games". Hidalgo noted that while the full extent of this "multimedia project" did not come together, "the Scholastic young reader series proved popular enough to carry on without any ancillary product support". The series was also intended to provide "glimpses of Episode II, but only Path to Truth arrived in advance of the 2002 Episode II tie-in titles".
Writer Ryder Windham and artist Pop Mhan created the four-issue comic book adaptation of Path to Truth; titled Jedi Quest, it was published by Dark Horse Comics in 2001. This is collected in Star Wars Omnibus: Menace Revealed (2009).
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