Star Wars is set to get a new release this fall, and this upcoming space adventure will put Han Solo and Boba Fett on a collision course. The only question now is whether this showdown will finally determine, once and for all, who will win in a face-off between the legendary smuggler and bounty hunter, or if fans will once again be left speculating about the outcome of a battle between these two iconic figures in discussion posts.
The Star Wars fandom is no stranger to turning to discussion platforms like Reddit, Comic Vine, and countless forums to debate the outcomes of hypothetical matchups between legendary characters. Among the most frequently discussed pairings are Han Solo and Boba Fett. While the two have crossed paths multiple times throughout Star Wars canon, they have yet to engage in a true, one-on-one duel.
However, with Han Solo and Boba Fett pursuing the same prize in their next Star Wars appearance, the chances of finally seeing the two face off are higher than ever. Such a showdown could at last elevate their traditional hunter-versus-target dynamic into a rivalry between duelists, potentially settling one of the fandom’s most intriguing debates in the upcoming Star Wars: Smugglers and Scoundrels – Race for Jabba’s Bounty.
Han Solo’s Upcoming Star Wars Graphic Novel Pits Him Against Boba Fett
Main Cover by Christian Colbert for Star Wars: Smugglers and Scoundrels Vol. 1 – Race For Jabba’s Bounty (2026)
Star Wars Smugglers and Scoundrals Race for Jabba’s Bounty main cover
Set for release on September 25, 2026, Mad Cave Studios’ Star Wars: Smugglers and Scoundrels Vol. 1 – Race For Jabba’s Bounty is an all-new original Star Wars graphic novel. Clocking in at 112 pages of adventure, the book will be available in both hardcover and trade paperback formats for $19.99 and $14.99, respectively.
Brought to life by the creative talents of writer Cavan Scott and artist Christian Colbert, Race For Jabba’s Bounty welcomes readers of all ages but is specifically geared toward middle-grade audiences. As such, it makes for a perfect purchase for longtime Star Wars fans looking to pass their Star Wars fever on to younger Gen Z and older Gen Alpha readers.
The story revolves around the notorious crime boss Jabba the Hutt losing a precious family heirloom and enlisting Han Solo and Chewbacca aboard the trusty Millennium Falcon to recover it. However, Solo and Chewbacca won’t be the only scoundrels racing across the galaxy to get their hands on the treasure first.
Han Solo and Boba Fett from Star Wars facing off
The official synopsis for the graphic novel teases that “everyone’s favorite fast-talking Lepi Jaxxon T. Tumperakki, and his lucky Rabbit’s Foot,” the legendary Boba Fett, Aurra Sing, Greedo, and more will also be joining the hunt. The result is a tale described as a “rip-roaring ride full of risky maneuvers, double-crosses, and questionable morals as smugglers and scoundrels from across the galaxy race to recover Jabba’s prize!”
With Han Solo and Boba Fett confirmed to be pursuing the same prize, the story has the potential to finally address the hotly debated topics among Star Wars fans: who would win in a one-on-one battle between these two galactic legends?
Looking back at Star Wars continuity, Han Solo and Boba Fett have never actually engaged in a traditional one-on-one duel. The closest they came was in The Empire Strikes Back, where Fett tracked Han and ultimately helped facilitate his capture on Cloud City. Rather than a direct fight, their rivalry has historically been defined by the hunter-and-prey dynamic between bounty hunter and target. With a tangible prize at stake in Race For Jabba’s Bounty, however, Star Wars fans may finally get the chance to see Boba Fett and Han Solo face off in an outright duel.
A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away · Eight Questions How Well Do You Know Star Wars? “The Force will be with you. Always.”
Jedi OrderLight-side guardians
The SithRule of two
The RebellionA new hope
Bounty HuntersThis is the way
The EmpireOrder 66
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The original Star Wars film — later retitled Episode IV: A New Hope — opened in just 32 American theatres and proceeded to become the highest-grossing film of its era, redefining what summer blockbusters could be. In which year did it premiere?
✓ Correct! 1977 — specifically May 25. 20th Century Fox had so little faith in the project they only opened it in 32 theatres at first; queues quickly stretched around the block, and the film expanded to over 1,000 screens within months. It earned $307 million in its initial domestic run, won six Academy Awards (with another four nominations) and inverted Hollywood’s economics for the next 50 years.
✗ Wrong. The answer is 1977. 1975 is when the script was being shopped around. 1979 is when Star Trek: The Motion Picture released as a Star Wars-shaped countermove. 1980 is The Empire Strikes Back. The original Star Wars is May 25, 1977.
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A New Hope’s writer-director was a then-32-year-old American Graffiti veteran who’d struggled to get the project greenlit and famously took back-end profit and merchandising rights in lieu of a higher salary — the deal that would build a billion-dollar company. He returned to direct the prequels but stepped away from the original-trilogy sequels. Name him.
✓ Correct! George Lucas. The merchandising rights he kept (because Fox didn’t value them) became the financial bedrock of Lucasfilm and the basis of the modern toys-and-licensing megabusiness. After A New Hope, Lucas produced but didn’t direct Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner) or Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand), then directed all three prequels (1999–2005). He sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012 and stepped away from creative control of the sequels.
✗ Wrong. The answer is George Lucas. Steven Spielberg was Lucas’s close friend (and the godfather of his post-A-New-Hope career) but never directed a Star Wars film. Coppola was Lucas’s mentor at USC and at American Zoetrope. Irvin Kershner directed Empire Strikes Back. The original is Lucas’s.
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In 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back, Darth Vader delivers cinema’s most-misquoted line at the climax of his Cloud City duel with Luke Skywalker. Vader severs Luke’s hand and reveals their relationship. The exact line is — for the record — “No, I am your father.” What relationship does it confirm?
✓ Correct! Vader is Anakin Skywalker, Luke’s father. The reveal was so jealously guarded that Mark Hamill was only told the real line on set the day they shot it (the script said “Obi-Wan killed your father”), and even James Earl Jones recorded the dub without knowing the full plot context. The line — commonly misquoted as “Luke, I am your father” — rewrote what trilogies could pull off and is broadly considered cinema’s most famous twist.
✗ Wrong. The answer is that Vader is Luke’s father, Anakin Skywalker. The whole foundation of the Skywalker saga collapses to this single twist: Anakin (the Jedi prodigy of the prequels) becomes Vader after his fall. Luke and Leia are revealed in Return of the Jedi to be his twin children, separated at birth.
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Yoda — the green, ear-twitching Jedi Master — was puppeted and voiced from his Empire Strikes Back debut through the prequels and the sequels by a single Muppet-show-veteran performer who also voices Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear. Name him.
✓ Correct! Frank Oz — longtime Jim Henson collaborator and voice/puppet work on Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Sam Eagle and Grover. Oz puppeted Yoda directly through The Phantom Menace before CGI took over for Attack of the Clones onward, but he’s continued to voice the character through the sequels and animated series. Yoda’s syntax was developed jointly by Lucas and Oz to feel old, foreign and hard-won.
✗ Wrong. The answer is Frank Oz. Jim Henson was Oz’s mentor and collaborator (he created the Muppets) but didn’t voice Yoda. Steve Whitmire took over Kermit after Henson’s 1990 death. Brian Henson is Jim’s son and runs the Henson company today. Yoda is Frank Oz’s.
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In a deal that reshaped Hollywood, Disney acquired Lucasfilm Ltd. for $4.05 billion in cash and stock — bringing Star Wars, Indiana Jones, ILM and Skywalker Sound under the Disney umbrella. The deal also kicked off the sequel trilogy production. In what year did Disney close the acquisition?
✓ Correct! 2012 — specifically October 30. The deal was announced with simultaneous reveal that a Star Wars Episode VII was being developed for a 2015 release. Lucas had been quietly preparing his exit from Lucasfilm for years; Kathleen Kennedy had been brought in as co-chair months earlier specifically to take over. The Force Awakens came out three years later, in December 2015, kicking off the modern era.
✗ Wrong. The answer is 2012. 2009 is when Disney acquired Marvel ($4 billion). 2010 is the year before Lucas began signalling exit plans. 2014 is when production proper began on The Force Awakens. Lucasfilm joined Disney on October 30, 2012.
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The Mandalorian launched as Disney+’s flagship original on November 12, 2019 — the day the streaming service itself launched. Created by Jon Favreau and run by Dave Filoni, the show centres on a helmeted bounty hunter who reluctantly becomes a foster father to “The Child” (Grogu). What is the Mandalorian’s real name?
✓ Correct! Din Djarin — played by Pedro Pascal under the helmet (with body double Brendan Wayne handling much of the physical work). The Mandalorian is widely credited with reviving Star Wars on TV, popularising the StageCraft LED-volume virtual production technology now used across Hollywood, and turning baby Yoda — Grogu — into the meme-economy phenomenon of late 2019. Three seasons have aired with a feature film, The Mandalorian & Grogu, set for May 2026.
✗ Wrong. The answer is Din Djarin. Boba Fett is the famous bounty hunter from the original trilogy, with his own Disney+ spinoff (The Book of Boba Fett, 2021). Cobb Vanth is the Tatooine marshal played by Timothy Olyphant. Bo-Katan Kryze is the Mandalorian princess played by Katee Sackhoff. The Mandalorian himself is Din Djarin.
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Order 66 — the secret directive that turns the Republic’s clone troopers against their Jedi commanders and effectively ends the Jedi Order — is dramatised in the climactic third act of which prequel film?
✓ Correct! Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005). Palpatine’s “Execute Order 66” comm to the clone armies leads to the methodical, planet-by-planet liquidation of the Jedi Order — one of the saga’s most operatic sequences, scored to John Williams’ “Anakin’s Betrayal” cue. The same film features Anakin’s fall to the Dark Side, the Mustafar duel with Obi-Wan, and his rebirth as Darth Vader in the suit. Widely re-evaluated as the best of the prequels.
✗ Wrong. The answer is Revenge of the Sith. Phantom Menace ends with Qui-Gon’s death and the unveiling of Darth Maul. Attack of the Clones ends with the Clone Wars beginning. Rogue One is set just before A New Hope, after Order 66 has long since happened. The Order 66 sequence is the climax of Episode III.
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Andor (2022–25) is widely regarded as the most adult, politically literate Star Wars project ever made — a slow-burn prequel to Rogue One charting Cassian Andor’s radicalisation against the Empire. The series was created and showrun by a writer/director best known for the original Bourne trilogy and Michael Clayton. Name him.
✓ Correct! Tony Gilroy. He’d previously been brought in for extensive Rogue One reshoots in 2016, and Lucasfilm gave him near-total creative independence on Andor. Season 1 (12 episodes, 2022) is widely regarded as Star Wars’ finest dramatic writing ever; Season 2 (also 12 episodes, in four three-episode jumps across 2025) closes the gap to Rogue One’s opening scene. Gilroy’s prior credits: Bourne Identity / Supremacy / Ultimatum / Legacy, plus directing Michael Clayton (2007).
✗ Wrong. The answer is Tony Gilroy. Rian Johnson directed The Last Jedi (2017). Jon Favreau created The Mandalorian and is Lucasfilm’s Disney+-era animation/live-action lieutenant. Dave Filoni runs the Filoniverse (Clone Wars, Rebels, Ahsoka, the upcoming Heir to the Empire film). Andor is Tony Gilroy’s.
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Star Wars: Smugglers and Scoundrels Vol. 1 – Race For Jabba’s Bounty HC from Mad Cave Studios will be available to read September 15, 2026!
