Han Solo, pulp novel hero

This Phil Noto illustration imagines Han Solo as a pulp novel hero. I love the FALCON BOOKS bug in the top left corner.

HAN SOLO and THE DANTOOINE DELILAH (via Super Punch)

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Anonymous

The Brian Daley Han Solo novels are terrific low grade pulp scifi. I have the box set:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Solo_at_Stars%27_End
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Solo%27s_Revenge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Solo_and_the_Lost_Legacy
- Donald Petersen
  
  The Brian Daley Han Solo novels are terrific low grade pulp scifi.
  
  For that matter, L. Neil Smith’s Lando Calrissian ones were pretty good, too. Back then you had those two trilogies, the movie novelizations, and Splinter of the Mind’s Eye… and that was it for Star Wars books until Timothy Zahn launched the current assload of SW books with that Thrawn trilogy in 1991, IIRC.
liquidcola

â™« Hey there Han Solo, what’s it like inside Delilah… â™ª

Erm…
DrOrbitalDeathRay

I would buy this so frigging hard.
Anonymous

Sadly for her, Han shot first…
Editz

It’s a trap!
peterbruells

Err.. Han Solo *is* pulp novel hero. Nothing to imagine there.

Nice cover, though.
- Anonymous
  
  Yeah, Han Solo has already appeared in pulp novels.
  
  My favorites were the ones by Brian Daley.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Solo_at_Stars%27_End
RogerM

Tell me, Schotze, is it twue what they say about you Corellians being . . . gifted?
caipirina

I recall Han Solo novels in my youth .. they were probably non SW canon … butvery cool … if only they had covers like that…

so .. now .. where is the kindle version ???
- Anonymous
  
  http://www.amazon.com/Paradise-Snare-Star-Wars-Trilogy/dp/0553574159/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1305142282&sr=1-2
  
  the han solo trilogy. they were as canon as anything else, and (from my memories of fifth grade) totally awesome.
- AnthonyC
  
  I don’t know which ones you read, but there are scores, if not hundreds, of canon star wars EU novels in which Solo appears, if not as a main character, than at least as an important one.
Moriarty

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Anonymous

Han Solo is a pulp character, his name is Northwest Smith (by the talented C.L. Moore):

“By profession, Smith is an outlaw who lives by a variety of criminal means, including smuggling. By nature, he is an anti-hero, ruthless, self-serving, and cynical. Despite this, he has a core of goodness and often does the right thing in spite of himself.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Smith