The Guardian of Forever is a comic story which serves as the third part of a three-part comics series written by Chris Claremont, originally published in the UK's Star Wars Weekly 113–115. It was reprinted in 1981 in the Marvel Illustrated Books collection Star Wars 2: World of Fire, where it was named after the first part published in Star Wars Weekly 113. The other two original parts are Betrayal and The Monster's Secret. The story was started in World of Fire and The Word for World is Death.