Mandalorian questions

I want to ask a number of questions about Mandalorians.

Firstly, when did we first hear about Mandalorians?

I know the first appearance of a Mandalorian was Boba Fett in the holiday special's animated sequence. And they were mentioned without the name Mandalorian being mentioned the ESB novelization in connection with Fett's armor as some bunch the Jedi had wiped out in the clone wars. But when was the name Mandalorian or any related name (such as "Mandalore") first mentioned?

Was it when the Marvel comics introduced Fenn Shysa and the planet Mandalore in 1982/1983 with issues 68 and 69?

Or was the term mentioned in Bantha Tracks or something before then?

And any bit of story mentioning them as a group, even without a name, when did that first appear? Was the ESB novelization the first appearance of that?

What was the original Bantha Tracks or whatever Mandalorian story and when did it first surface?

Does anybody know how much Mandalorians were an invention of Lucas and how much they were the invention of expanded universe writers?

(And I'm talking about expanded universe writers way back like 70s/80s, not Karen Traviss or whatever in recent years.)

When was Boba Fett first made into sort of the toughest dude around? In a New Jedi Order story in the Star Wars Tales comic we have Han Solo saying he wouldn't be able to beat Boba Fett in a fair fight. You don't get that notion from the OT, so I guess Boba Fett being that unbeatably tough is a development of the expanded universe. I'd like to know when the expanded universe made him so invincibly tough. Is it a development of the Boba Fett splurge of the 90s or does it date back to the 80s or 70s?

(Of course, the prequels seem to have picked up the idea of him being so tough a bit, by making Jango Fett a match for Jedi Kenobi, but that's after years of Boba Fett being the big man in 90s expanded universe stuff.) 

And when I say toughest dude around, I don't just mean really tough mean bounty hunter and toughest bounty hunter, I mean a guy Han Solo doesn't have a chance against in a fair fight and who can hold his own against Darth Vader. In that Star Wars Tales comic they say Boba Fett can be matched in a fair fight by like 6 or 7 people in the whole galaxy. When did he become that sort of tough?

Also, I don't remember anything about Mandalorians being mentioned in the prequels, even any hint that Jango Fett was from any special group. Am I right there's nothing of the sort in there?

What about the novelization? Do any of the movie novelizations (OT or prequel) mention anything about Mandalorians other than that bit in the ESB novelization that I mentioned?

Vaderisnothayden said:

I want to ask a number of questions about Mandalorians.

(And I'm talking about expanded universe writers way back like 70s/80s, not Karen Traviss or whatever in recent years.)

When was Boba Fett first made into sort of the toughest dude around? In a New Jedi Order story in the Star Wars Tales comic we have Han Solo saying he wouldn't be able to beat Boba Fett in a fair fight. You don't get that notion from the OT, so I guess Boba Fett being that unbeatably tough is a development of the expanded universe. I'd like to know when the expanded universe made him so invincibly tough. Is it a development of the Boba Fett splurge of the 90s or does it date back to the 80s or 70s?

(Of course, the prequels seem to have picked up the idea of him being so tough a bit, by making Jango Fett a match for Jedi Kenobi, but that's after years of Boba Fett being the big man in 90s expanded universe stuff.) 

What about the novelization? Do any of the movie novelizations (OT or prequel) mention anything about Mandalorians other than that bit in the ESB novelization that I mentioned? 

The ESB was (I think) the first mention of the name Mandalorians, and their status as somehow the enemy of the Jedi during the past.

The PT, including the novels, doesn't contain any refrence to any such thing. Which is a pity because it would have been so simple to make Kamino into Mandalore, then the clones would be Mandalorians. Or maybe thats a dumb idea.

Where Boba Fett got the 'tough guy' rep I don't know, except to say he sure didn't get it from the movies!

first off, mandalore was once a planet dominatied by mythosaurs. a mandalorian, named 'mand'alor the ultimate' lead

an attack on the planet and took it over. so the planet was named after him. mandalorians were originally gray

skinned, but evolved over time. the mandalorians are built up as warriors from birth and followed a code.

mandalorians are considered one of the most powerful factions in the known galaxy. the whole point of the style of

mandalorian armor was that it expressed their hearts and soul and just wasn't an identification. jengo fett was the

most feared because he was the most well known and dangerous bounty hunter in the galaxy. there was even an

arena named after him and was to become the new madalore, basically its like a king. this is where bobba fett got

his reputation from. same genetic make up and same goals as his father. also thought to be the last of the

mandalorians until the yuzon van war.