Do you know if he specifically asked for Roy Thomas as well? If so that’d be quite ironic as he eventually asked for him to be removed from the series after the Eight for Aduba-3 story-line. (At least that how I’ve been told that it played out.)
looking at the article in the first issue of the U.S. monthly comic , Roy says that it started when George expressed interest in a Scrooge McDuck painting on his wall , they met , shared a dinner and that was it .A few months later , Charles Lipincott , the media relations director of Lucasfilm ,looked him up.He said Charlie informed him after a spaghetti dinner , that both he and George would like Marvel in general and him in particular to handle the comic book adaptation. So, yeah , that is ironic , especially given the creation of Jar Jar decades later.