fishmanlee said:
Molly said:
Alan Dean Foster used the phrase "Dark Lord of the Sith" in the novelization of ANH in 1976, iirc

i dont know how old this dark horse comic is that came with the ANH DVD but it says "that" in there too

Seeing as the ANH novelisation was the first story introduction to the Star Wars universe anyone (outside the film production) had I guess that trumps just about anything but for the purpose of this thread's title does it matter? The Sith are not mentioned at all in the OT films so you could remove references to them without contradicting anything in the original films (though it may be a bugger to pull off because in the PT they get name checked all the time).