Doctor Aphra (Comic) — Star Wars The Black Series 50th Anniversary

Overview

Doctor Aphra (Comic) is a Fan Channel exclusive in the Black Series 50th Anniversary sub-line, released in March 2023 at $27.99. This is the second Black Series Doctor Aphra — the first released in 2019 — and is based on her comic book appearances rather than any screen adaptation. It shares a release window and the same base body with Mara Jade (Dark Force Rising), a body Hasbro has also used for Jaina Solo.

The photo-real portrait is outstanding — described as non-pixelated in person and among the best in the Black Series. The four-accessory loadout with a removable coat, hat, scarf, and blaster gives genuine configuration flexibility. The one specific accuracy gap: the belt doesn’t match the packaging art.

Articulation

20 joints. Ball-jointed top neck, swivel lower neck, ball-jointed shoulders, ball-jointed elbows, ball-jointed wrists, ball-jointed upper body, swivel waist (back and forth), ball-jointed hips, swivel thighs, swivel joints above the knees, swivel joints below the knees, ball-jointed ankles.

The swivel waist adds forward-back torso movement that most Black Series figures don’t have — useful for the active, leaning-forward poses that suit an archaeologist-smuggler character. The figure stands well without balance issues.

Accessories

4 accessories. Blaster, removable flight cap with goggles, removable scarf, removable coat.

The blaster fits well into the right hand with the index finger able to reach the trigger, and fits snugly into the holster. The flight cap removes easily from the head. The goggles on the cap are not separately removable — they’re part of the cap sculpt. The scarf is a separate removable piece. The coat is removable, but there’s a specific limitation: the coat’s arms are painted and sculpted onto the figure’s arms, so removing the coat reveals arms that still look like they’re wearing a coat. In practice, the coat stays on for display.

This gives you three meaningful configurations: fully equipped with coat, cap and scarf; cap off and coat on; coat off with cap — though the coat-off result looks incomplete.

The Portrait

The photo-real print on the face is specifically noted as non-pixelated in person — a quality differentiator from earlier Black Series photo-real prints that could show printing texture at close range. The head sculpt overall looks great. This is among the better portrait results in the 50th Anniversary sub-line and one of the better portraits in the Black Series overall.

The Belt Issue

The belt on the figure is not accurate to how Doctor Aphra appears on her own packaging art — the packaging shows two large pouches hanging from the front of the belt, which are absent from the actual figure. This is a direct comparison between the box you open and the figure inside it, and the discrepancy is notable. It doesn’t affect function, but it’s a visible accuracy gap on a character whose distinctive equipment is part of her visual identity in the comics.

Doctor Aphra in the Comics

Doctor Chelli Lona Aphra debuted in Kieron Gillen’s Darth Vader comic series in 2015 — a rogue archaeologist with questionable morals and excellent survival instincts who Vader recruits as a field operative. Her solo series launched in 2016 and ran across multiple volumes, making her one of the most prominent characters introduced in the Marvel Star Wars comics era.

Her appeal is the specific combination of competence and chaos — she’s genuinely brilliant at what she does and completely unreliable about doing the right thing with it. The character exists in the space between the Rebellion and the Empire, working for whoever pays and occasionally doing something that looks almost like the right call. The 50th Anniversary figure captures the adventurer configuration — the flight gear, the utility coat, the blaster — rather than any single specific story arc.

This is the second Black Series Aphra and the comic-era version. If you have the 2019 release, the differences are the updated portrait, the new accessories, and the specific comic-appearance framing. If you don’t, this is the better figure.

Fan Channel Acquisition

Fan Channel exclusive at $27.99, March 2023. Shared release window with Mara Jade (Dark Force Rising). No variations recorded. Figure provided by Entertainment Earth for review.

Secondary Market

Fan Channel exclusive 2023. Secondary prices typically $30–55.

Verdict

Doctor Aphra (Comic) has an outstanding photo-real portrait, a four-accessory loadout that includes a properly functioning holster and three removable clothing pieces, and a base body with good articulation. The coat-off display limitation, the belt that doesn’t match the packaging, and the goggles-fixed-to-cap are the specific constraints. As the better of the two Black Series Aphras, it’s the version worth having. Fan Channel exclusive, $27.99.

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Part of Star Wars The Black Series | 50th Anniversary. Related: Mara Jade (Dark Force Rising) P4-50A-MJC | Black Krrsantan (Marvel: Star Wars) P4-50A-BKC.