The Empire Strikes Back Annual 1981 was a hardcover comic book released in the United Kingdom that reprinted the stories from Star Wars 46: The Dreams of Cody Sunn-Childe and Star Wars 50: The Crimson Forever. The first story was first printed in the UK in The Empire Strikes Back Monthly 141. The book's cover is a recolored version of the cover of Star Wars 50: The Crimson Forever.