How Boba Fett Came Back… the First Time Round

Boba Fett is dead no more , long go Boba Fett ! Next week , The Book of Boba Fett will kick offa new adventurewith Temuera Morrison ’s legendary Bounty Hunter , paving a new manner frontward forhis felonious empirewhile exploring just how he cheat his ( rather goofy ) death in Return of the Jedi . But this is Star Wars : of course , thisisn’t the first timewe’ve view Boba do this .

How Boba Fett Escaped the Sarlacc

Blessed be the Star Wars expanded world because there are actually two moments Boba escaped the sarlacc in the classical continuity . The lesser - known , and much funnier original story came in the pages of Marvel ’s original Star Wars comic . Star Wars # 81 — uproariously subtitled , “ Jawas of Doom”—released in belated 1983 , it saw Han and Leia takings to Tatooine concisely after the issue of Return of the Jedi , as Han … well , Han was attempt to get his bank to recognize the fact that he was no longer in Carbonite , and needed his account re - opening . Yeah .

Anyway , it turns out a ramble Jawa Sandcrawler nabbed Boba after he managed to boost his own way out of the sarlacc pit , thinking that the masked man was in reality a droid they could scrap . After the same Jawas abduct R2 - D2 from under Han and Leia , the duo chase after them , with Han diving into the Sandcrawler and discovering for himself that Boba Fett live . The unspoilt news for Han , however , was that Boba had “ I ’ve been part digested ” amnesia , and did n’t recognize him . Too kind - hearted to abandon the hunter who had no idea he ’d made Han ’s life sentence miserable for the past few years , the two worked together to escape the Sandcrawler with R2 . Alas , it was n’t to be : Leia ’s retell yelling of Han ’s name outside the Sandcrawler jolted Boba ’s memories back just as he and Han were about to make it out , causing him to immediately go for his blaster in a bidding to stop Han ’s life once more . Han leaped away with R2 , and poor Boba — and the range Sandcrawler — fell back in the sarlacc . Because how else would he be in there to get out again ?

How Boba Fett Escaped the Sarlacc (Again)

Shortly after being back in digestive prison house , Boba think up plans to lam from a thousand years of suffering once more . As depict in “ A Barve Like That : The Tale of Boba Fett , ” the J.D. Montgomery forgetful storey in the classic 1996 anthology Tales From Jabba ’s Palace , Boba get using the intimate systems of the sarlacc itself to make a telepathic connection to one of its other victims , an exotic being named Susejo . After the two traded memories , of both the many dupe of the sarlacc that come after Susejo and Boba ’s own exploits as a bounty hunter , Boba realized that Susejo was all but one with the sarlacc itself . Goading the noncitizen ’s opinion into a convulsive reply from the sarlacc ’s innards , Boba managed to get the tool to contort around his jetpack — crushing it and light its actuation scheme , grievously injure Boba and muck up him costless of the creature ’s tendrils .

Still , with scarce enough strength to make it out of the creature ’s cakehole as it tended to its lesion , Boba lapsed in and out of cognizance — Boba was discovered once more . This time , not by Jawas , but a rival amplitude hunter : none other than Dengar . explore the salvage will behind from the explosive destruction of Jabba ’s canvas barge , the Khetanna , Dengar discovered Boba ’s dead body and nurse his one - meter professional rival back to wellness . Dengar was assisted by a young dancer from Jabba ’s castle who had survived her master ’s downfall , Neelah — whose computer storage had been wipe before being sold into servitude , and consider that Boba had some connexion to unlock her past .

What Boba Fett Did After Escaping the Sarlacc

After Boba recover enough to fly Tatooine with Dengar and Neelah in tow — who discover that she was actually the high - wear Kateel of Kuhlvult from the planet Kuat , home to the famous Kuat Drive Yards starship production facility — Boba became friends with Dengar , and the duo formed an unlikely early partnership . After abandoning the hard worker I to go on a mission of vengeance against the loss leader of Kuat Drive Yards , Kuat of Kuat ( yes , really ) , Boba go out the remaining shipmaking facilities to the control of Kateel and rejoined Dengar as a hunter . For a fourth dimension , he leveraged the namelessness gained by people believing he had perish at the sarlacc pit , take job in mystery with Dengar . It would be another four days until Boba re - emerged on the galactic stage , making himself known to Han Solo after trapping the Alliance superior general on the Sun Myung Moon of Nar Shaddaa in another attempt to get vengance against his former target . From there … well , permit ’s just say Boba live on on to havea long , wacky lifein the honest-to-god EU .

No doubt The Book of Boba Fett will give us another alternate retelling of this effect , now to be canonized as the “ prescribed ” story in Disney and Lucasfilm ’s era of all - canon , all the clip . But it ’ll be interesting to see what beats and ideas — and the worked up encroachment it might have on a character we have intercourse far more as a mystifying zero thanas an factual person — it echo from the rendering of Boba ’s Renascence we pay witness to in the past . We ’ll regain out when the serial begins stream on Disney+ Wednesday , December 29 .

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This is far from the first time Boba’s managed to escape digestive juices on Tatooine.