Vaderisnothayden said:
The relevance of the Marvel comics take on things is that it shows people back in the 80s figuring the empire was mostly over after ROTJ. I suspect that was the assumption among most people. Certainly nobody back then gave me the impression that the empire wasn't over after ROTJ.

It shows that comic book writters back in the eighties decided to go with that, it doesn't say a lot about people in general. Comic book writters also decided to create Hoojibs and Jaxxon (guess they had a thing for rabbits).