Vaderisnothayden said:

The Marvel stuff can't be just categorized all one way. The material varied immensely over the years. Some was more intelligent and some was dumber, but I certainly don't see that newspaper strip was any better in that area. The Marvel stuff was certainly more in tune with the spirit of Star Wars than the 90s eu and Dark Horse stuff. That Marvel didn't fit in with story that Lucas would reveal later doesn't bother me, because I don't have much respect for the story Lucas revealed later. I think it's only reasonable that they include the Marvel stuff in their canon, considering they've included so much modern shit and the Marvels are truer to the Spirit of Star Wars.

True at least their was no Jar Jar and Hayden Anakin/Vader yet.

Now they were even in the comics and they tried to keep Anakins likeness in the comics as close to hayden as possible. Also whiny emo douche in the comics too, in between being a leader of the clone troops and jedi.

The Marvel stuff was conceived before darth vader was Luke's Father, and Leia was Luke's sister. Luke had a jedi father who was killed by Darth Vader and Leia was a possible love interest because she was not his sister.

The first authorized official non canon EU sequels to star wars happened in marvel even before the splinter of the minds eye novel was published. Of course star wars 77 would be changed in empire strikes back and return of the jedi. The father and sister thing irritates those who see only star wars as canon. They hate the sequels and pretend they never happened the same as prequel haters and special edition haters.