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Were there any mentions of Mandalore and the Mandalorians in the old 80s/90s Expanded Universe?
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Yes , First mentioned by name in the original Marvel comics series issue 68 from 1983, both the planet and the super commandoes . Also heavily featured in the Tales Of The Jedi comics of the 90s , particularly The Sith War .Also , in the 1980 novelization of The Empire Strikes Back , Boba Fett is described as wearing the armor of a group of evil warriors that were defeated by the Jedi Knights during the Clone Wars
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Didn’t Leia meet a Mando named Fenn Shysa in Marvel?
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Didn’t Leia meet a Mando named Fenn Shysa in Marvel?
Yeah. And he and his compatriots all had Irish accents for some reason. They and Boba Fett fought on the side of the Empire during the Clone Wars, which apparently were so close in time to the OT that Leia was around and active during them. None of this ended up meshing well with the EU of the '90s, which is why I don’t really consider them part of the same continuity.
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Lucasfilm published a Star Wars newsletter called Bantha Tracks and the 5th issue, published in July 1979, says:
“Not much is known about Boba Fett. He wears part of the uniform of the Imperial Shocktroopers, warriors from the olden time. Shocktroopers came from the far side of the galaxy and there aren’t many of them left. They were wiped out by the Jedi Knights during the Clone Wars. Whether he was a shocktrooper or not is unknown. He is the best bounty hunter in the galaxy, and cares little for whom he works — as long as they pay.”
I believe that this is what the ESB novelization and the Marvel comic were going by.
The Empire Strikes Back Sketchbook, a book about Joe Johnston’s concept art for ESB, says that that the initial idea was for the armor of Boba Fett to be worn by “supercommandos” “from the Mandalore system”, hence the Marvel comic introducing the planet Mandalore and naming the warriors in Fett-like armor “Mandalorian Protectors”.