I was thinking about some peoples criticism of ROTJ, something that I've only learnt about in the the last few years, that it's too much of a rehash of SW with the second Death Star etc, this had never occured to me previously.
Anyway previous to 1982 was there anything in the SW universe to suggest that Jabba the Hutt was a crime boss on Tatooine? Apart from the Jabba deleted scene from SW which places him on Tatooine.
I was thinking it was a curious decision to have Luke return home in ROTJ to rescue Han. Could the story have been as easily as written having Jabba a gangster of some other random lawless planet. And Greedo having tracked Solo across the galaxy to some backwater planet called Tatooine in SW.
Like I said it's just a curiosity. I still love ROTJ despite its few flaws. The Jabba's Palace/ Tatooine stuff was always one of my favourite parts of the trilogy as a kid. Nothing excites the inner child in me quite like Luke igniting his new lightsaber for the first time