Hal 9000 said:

darklordoftech said:

Heir to the Jedi takes place before any of the Marvel comics.

I believe that's a retcon. Heir to the Jedi features Luke talking with his girlfriend about looking back on himself two years ago as immature, and they bond over this shared experience. He was talking about how he felt right after the Battle of Yavin. Luke's character throughout the book implies to me that significant time has passed for him. Shoehorning the book into what I'm sure amounts to a few days between ANH and the comics cheats the book of its due.

It says on Wookieepedia that Heir to the Jedi was originally supposed to be the third book in the Empire and Rebellion series for the old EU. Seeing as those books are listed as taking place 2-3 years after the Battle of Yavin, it's safe to say that HTTJ was meant to fit in the same timeframe.

It really just goes to show that the guys in charge of maintaining continuity are nothing but incompetent. Perhaps their failure to keep real continuity in the old EU could be (partially) excused due to how grossly complex and convoluted the EU had become, but now -- with only a handful of comics, novels, and short stories to deal with -- there's absolutely no excuse for this.