Star Wars 81 : Jawas of Doom Star Wars 81 : Jawas of Doom is the eighty - first issue in the " Marvel Star Wars " series of comics . Publisher ' s summary . " What a homecoming ! When Han , Princess Leia and Artoo return to Tatooine to tie up some unfinished business , it ' s hardly business as usual — when some of Tatooine ' s deadliest surviving citizens form the welcoming committee ! " Jawas of Doom " is written by Jo Duffy , penciled by Ron Frenz , and inked by Tom Palmer . " Plot summary . Just after the Battle of Endor , Han Solo finds himself short of ready credits . Unfortunately , " his " credit isn ' t very good among his fellow Rebels . When Leia suggests that either the House of Alderaan ( of which she ' s a member ) could loan him credits or the Rebel Alliance could give him an advance , Han storms off because he says he was on his own long before he joined the Alliance . He returns to the " Millennium Falcon " for the first time since the battle and breaks down . Han , Leia , and R2 - D2 take the " Falcon " to Tatooine where Solo has an account with a bank in Mos Eisley . On his arrival , he learns that his account was frozen because the bank was notified that the customer ( Han , who had been frozen in carbonite for a year ) had been frozen . Without being able to explain to the bank computer what had happened , Han storms from the bank and rendezvouses with Leia in a cantina . Meanwhile , Boba Fett has been spewed from the mouth of the Sarlacc into which he had fallen ( as shown in ) . He awakes on the sands of Tatooine , but he has completely lost his memory . A Jawa sandcrawler finds Fett unconscious and believes that he is a droid when they spy his armor . The Jawas have become increasingly aggressive since Jabba the Hutt ' s death , even to the point that they ' re willing to engage the Sand people . They store Boba Fett in the sandcrawler and approach Mos Eisley . Back in the cantina , Leia realizes R2 - D2 could talk to the bank ' s computer and help fix the error . She goes with Han back to the " Falcon " to pick up the droid . However , Artoo is missing from the hangar , and several small footprints can be seen around the " Falcon " . The dockmaster , Garrick , informs them that he didn ' t see anyone come into the dock because he was working on his landspeeders . Unknown to the group , Artoo was picked up by the same Jawas that picked up Boba Fett . Han and Leia steal two landspeeders from Garrick and catch up to the sandcrawler being pursued by sand people on banthas since it had skirted their territory . As the Han and Leia catch up to the sandcrawler , it is accelerating toward the Great Pit of Carkoon with the sand people approaching . Han leaps from the moving landspeeder and enters the sandcrawler ' s cargo hold to find Artoo and Boba Fett ; he ' s surprised the bounty hunter was able to survive the Sarlacc . Fett , still without his memories , doesn ' t remember Han , and Solo is able to coerce the bounty hunter into helping Artoo out of the sandcrawler and onto the racing landspeeder . After rescuing Artoo , Han decides to go back for Fett and rescue him as well . However , when Leia calls out Han ' s name as he is ready to help Fett out of the sandcrawler , Fett ' s memory is jogged and he fires his blaster at Han . Han dodges the attack and jumps from the sandcrawler back to the landspeeder . As the Rebels drive away , the sandcrawler — with Boba Fett inside — falls into the Sarlacc ' s maw . Behind the scenes . This is the first Marvel Star Wars issue to take place following the film , . It is also the first appearance of Boba Fett following the conclusion of the films . The story in this issue was originally intended to appear in the but was pushed back when " " was published in .