5 Goofy Characters from Marvel’s Original Star Wars We Want Brought Back

Now that Marvel is going to get the license to publish Star Wars comics for the first time since […]

September 6, 2017, 7:45pm

Now that Marvel is going to get the license to publish Star Wars comics for the first time since 1986, we started thinking about the last time they published comics set in that far away galaxy so very long, long ago. For those of you that don’t know, when Marvel started work on their adaptation of Star Wars back in 1977, the first (fourth?) film hadn’t even come out. As a matter of fact, the first six issues of their series adapted the events of Episode IV – A New Hope but the first issue came out a month prior to the film’s release in May of 1977.That’s not the most interesting bit though. Between May 1977 and May 1980, the release of Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back, there were no Star Wars films. Does that mean that there were no Star Wars comics? Nope. So, with nothing to adapt, what did Marvel do? What Marvel does best, make up a combination of awesome, funny, and totally spectacular nonsense featuring the original Star Wars cast. So, after some research, we’ve compiled a few of the goofier items that we’d like to see Marvel work into whatever new Star Wars comics they decide to publish. Not only would this be entertaining as heck, but it would fit into the grand Marvel tradition of embracing its goofy past and working it into modern comic book aesthetics.So, without further ado…

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Editor’s note: His “Lepi” race is an obvious play on the word “lepus,” which is Greek for “hare.” There’s a constellation by that name.

The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de La Mancha Editor’s note: According to Bruce Burningham, a Spanish and Comparative Literature professor at Illinois State University and guest lecturer of the Chicago Humanities Festival, Don Quixote (the novel) was, along with Star Wars, a primary inspiration to Mel Brooks’ classic Spaceballs

Editor’s note: The 1977 mass market paperback novelization of Lucas’s Star Wars script describes Jabba as a “great mobile tub of muscle and suet topped by a shaggy scarred skull”, but gives no further detail as to the character’s physical appearance or species. Wikipedia

Editor’s note: Also, she kind of looks like something Lady Gaga would come onstage wearing.

Editor’s note: I got nothin’. Thanks to Wookieepedia, The Star Wars Wiki. Much of the research for this article was conducted on their excellent site.