P.S.  This is my first thread and I noticed I put it in the wrong category.  :(

Double Thanks for both properly categorizing my post AND for finding the exact panel! YES. This is EXACTLY it.  So, is it just me or is "Muffin Hair" a prototypical Anakin or someone else? Now that I have the panel to look at, it seems that the creature mentions several pupils being present under Obi-Wan...

You are right.  The dialogue from Star Wars (and Return of the Jedi) suggests that Luke's father/Anakin and Ben/Obi were equals rather than master-apprentice.  However, with the ret-con/merger of the characters of "Anakin" and Vader you then kind of have to accept that Luke's father was Obi's apprentice.  But, then again, this is 1979, here, before all that and back when they weren't one and the same. 

Still, though, at the end of this comic, the creature states that Luke is wearing the lightsaber of the Jedi who was chiefly responsible for saving them and Luke says that his father was someone he could be proud of (this line is all the more poignant with the character-meld/retcon in my mind!).  Furthermore, this Vanilla Ice/Muffin Hair man with Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi most likely wouldn't simply be some random pupil since his presence is kind of odd and, seemingly, at equal status with Kenobi and Vader. 

In conclusion, it is my opinion that the man with the bad hairdo is none other than Marvel's interpretation of the visage of the father of Luke Skywalker, only placed anonymously in one panel to avoid attracting the attention of our boy George.

In fact...I doubt George has ever seen this panel!  Boy would he probably be ticked!  Heck, he would probably want to have the next Dark Horse compilation/omnibus of the Marvel comics have Hayden's visage tacked on to this panel! :P

^Thank goodness that didn't pan out...

I remember the story well.

It could be that the blue coloured chap is another member of Kharys' species (possibly a Jedi recruit that may have received training from Kenobi) and Vader in armour is her remembering Anakin's return after the big burn.

I read the story, and I do think "Vanilla Ice" there was intended to be Anakin. With Vader and Anakin having been merged into one character, I suppose you can just retcon "Vanilla Ice" into being another Jedi that accompanied Ben and Anakin on their mission to Kharys' world, and that Vader later lied and claimed to be this Jedi when he returned to the planet following his fall and transformation.

Officially, yes, but that doesn't keep the nuts who run the EU from trying to fit as much of it into continuity as possible.

Star Wars Purist said:

You are right.  The dialogue from Star Wars (and Return of the Jedi) suggests that Luke's father/Anakin and Ben/Obi were equals rather than master-apprentice.

BEN: A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights. He betrayed and murdered your father. Now the Jedi are all but extinct. Vader was seduced by the dark side of the Force.

BEN: When I first knew him, your father was already a great pilot. But I was amazed how strongly the Force was with him. I took it upon myself to train him as a Jedi. I thought that I could instruct him just as well as Yoda. I was wrong.

Yes, yes. To tim you listen.

As for this:

SilverWook said:

Some of the pre-production art glimpsed on the Revenge of the Sith DVD does depict Anakin with a mohawk. Could someone have been inspired by the comic?

That looks like it was more inspired by the Droids animated series:

Which wouldn't be surprising seeing as quite a few things in the prequels seem to have been "inspired" by that show:

Boonta Speeder Race

Probably has something to do with the fact that Ben Burtt wrote for the series.

Yes, I was speaking of the assumed master-student relationship.  Honestly, though, I love most of the Marvel Comics, especially the Baron Tagge/"The Wheel" issues, and as my user-name implies, I don't care if they're considered below the "C-Canon" that most EU work falls under.  In my mind, the Prequels are beneath "Non-Canon" since they completely ruin my interpretation and enjoyment of the Original Star Wars films and work.  Sorry.  I just refuse to accept that the greatest villain of all time (imo) was once a wide-eyed "yippee!" shouting little slave boy who ALSO lived on Tatooine who then became a snotty adolescent and that he "solely" fell to the Dark Side because of a nightmare about his wife. Also Obi-Wan falling in his early 50s in Star Wars is just ridiculous.  As weird or different as Marvel's Star Wars comics got, they never got as "non-canon" as the Prequels did. 

But I digress. As for whether or not this was supposed to be Anakin, I guess none of us can ever know for sure, especially since most people will simply try to work this into the current "canon" (ugh) of the Star Wars universe and will deny this individual was ever intended to be a Jedi.  Heck, most people I talk to anymore honestly think the Vader=Luke's Dad relationship was always planned out.  Lucas's Stalin-esque Revisionism needs to be uncovered by any decent SW fan. 

^True for some parts of the EU, not true for others; it varies, really.

Star Wars Purist said:

I love most of the Marvel Comics, especially the Baron Tagge/"The Wheel" issues, and as my user-name implies, I don't care if they're considered below the "C-Canon" that most EU work falls under.  In my mind, the Prequels are beneath "Non-Canon" since they completely ruin my interpretation and enjoyment of the Original Star Wars films and work.

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As weird or different as Marvel's Star Wars comics got, they never got as "non-canon" as the Prequels did.

Agree with you 100% there. Except for the post-ROTJ stories - which were often hit-or-miss and, unfortunately IMHO, depicted the entire Empire as basically defeated following the film - I love the Marvel comics, love the pure funness and spirit of adventure inherent in those stories, and consider almost all of the entire run firmly part of my personal canon.