It really started in 1976 with the novelization from Alan Dean Foster. Then comic adaption, then Splinter of the Mind's Eye. You also had the Brian Daley Han Novels and the L Neil Smith Lando books, and a little later the radio plays for Star Wars and Empire. But a lot of people consider either Heir or Dark Empire as the start of EU. But its not correct. Also somewhere way far back the newspaper strips both runs fit in somewhere. From 78 to 1983? EU continuity did begin with Heir to the Empire though I suppose where they tried to link stuff in a single continuity.
I agree it doesn’t fully start with them but I didn’t include all stories as many don’t include them in their reading lists for the EU reading experience.
@@KJWohsBookReviews , yeah and some stuff comes back into continuity like black hole from Russ Manning, and Lumiya but most of that stuff is not referenced except for Gallandro being mentioned in Young Jedi Knights and of course AC Crispin might have referenced the Daley Novels but I forget. The people who managed this stuff had a deep love of the history of SW as a media property.
Keep making this type of stuff you will have a lot more views. Keep the EU alive
Thank you!!
thank you cause i didn’t know where to start
No problem !
It really started in 1976 with the novelization from Alan Dean Foster. Then comic adaption, then Splinter of the Mind's Eye. You also had the Brian Daley Han Novels and the L Neil Smith Lando books, and a little later the radio plays for Star Wars and Empire. But a lot of people consider either Heir or Dark Empire as the start of EU. But its not correct. Also somewhere way far back the newspaper strips both runs fit in somewhere. From 78 to 1983? EU continuity did begin with Heir to the Empire though I suppose where they tried to link stuff in a single continuity.
I agree it doesn’t fully start with them but I didn’t include all stories as many don’t include them in their reading lists for the EU reading experience.
@@KJWohsBookReviews , yeah and some stuff comes back into continuity like black hole from Russ Manning, and Lumiya but most of that stuff is not referenced except for Gallandro being mentioned in Young Jedi Knights and of course AC Crispin might have referenced the Daley Novels but I forget. The people who managed this stuff had a deep love of the history of SW as a media property.
@@matthewgaudet4064 Thank you for the information! I have some AC Crispin Novels that i'll read eventually.