I guess most people aren't into it, but the marvel series is important, historically, because it comes from the days when Lucasfilm was MUCH smaller and Lucas and one or 2 other people were actually guiding the writers and artists. Lucas handpicked artists back then and voiced his displeasure with certain early stories/writers, and at the time anyway, it was the "official" chronicle of what was going on in between the flicks and was made happened DURING the making of the trilogy.

I think boiling Marvel down to the main stories (ignoring some obvious deadline fill-ins and one-offs), compressing the time between Empire and Jedi and fixing the (relatively few) contradictions would be really cool. (it actually wouldn't be that hard. They had to ignore Luke losing his lightsaber after Empire, so the blue one ought to be changed to a "temporary" one he acquired along the way, there are a few he could be using that turned up in previous stories). Just a thought.