What’s interesting is that the image on the cover of ESB Weekly 129 is from the interiors by Al Williamson and it’s from the first splash page of that issue 42:
The bounty hunter shown over Boba’s left shoulder resembles a strange mix between Zuckuss and 4-LOM. Given the initial confusion over the identity of these two (as shown on the original Kenner releases), this makes sense.
Later on in issue 42 you can see something more distinctively 4-LOM. So, we can assume the cover of ESB Weekly 128 is supposed to be 4-LOM and that’s the general consensus out there.
Paging @drunkwooky
So before 4-LOM was ever a bounty hunter, he was just a droid that was a thief.
Isn’t he one of the thiefs that the entire story of Star Wars #7 involves?
I mean, I suppose there could be other malfunctioning protocol droids that look like him, that are also thief’s but…
At the end of #7 he isn’t necessarily destroyed either so…
The entire issue could be an episode of the series quite honestly.
Thoughts?
Heck, maybe this was already discussed and a given and I missed it even.
It’s definitely possible. That droid is never identified in the issue. He’s just a protocol droid of the same design as 4-LOM.
The only caution I would give is that the entire LOM series of droids had a programming flaw allow them to override their own programming controls and go rogue.
The issue and his rumored appearance in Obi-Wan are all a little too convenient, though, right?
