Official Handbook Updates

[rplass]

Well, the final issue , #14 of the Hardcover series is out today! Running over the originally planned 12 issues to issue #14 and over year late, the series is finally over!

No entries for Alpha Flight in this one, although there ought to have been. This issue was the final clean-up of entries that didn't make it into the previous 13 issues. It's frustrating since so many other entries made it in, example: Frogs of Central Park had an entry, but not Manikin? Please. Frogs of Central Park?

Anyway, Alpha Flight members did get some cameo appearances:

Mister Jeffries and Wild Child appear in the entry for the Zodiac in a small image
Sasquatch, Marrina, Aurora and Northstar appear in the entry for the Collector's Zoo, in a small image taken from the cover of Marvel Team-Up Annual #7.

Love,
rplass

[Loki]

Solicit for a TPB handbook for July 2010: Might have an updated entry for Aurora (last was volume 1 of the Hardcover series) at 240 pages that's fairly serious - some of the rest of the Alpha Babes might make it in!

WOMEN OF MARVEL: CELEBRATING SEVEN DECADES HANDBOOK TPB
Written by JEFF CHRISTIANSEN, MIKE O'SULLIVAN & THE OFFICIAL HANDBOOK TEAM
Cover by TOM RANEY
This is the year of Marvel’s women, and the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe is joining the celebration with this collection of profiles of the brightest female stars in the Marvel firmament! This encyclopedic volume covers the entire span of Marvel Comics and features hundreds of eye-catching characters! Entries include the good (Aurora , Big Bertha, Dazzler, Psylocke, Squirrel Girl), the bad (Hela, Moonstone, Selene, Titania, Viper) and everyone in-between (Gamora, Millie the Model, May Parker, Valeria Richards, Typhoid). This is a vital resource for any fan of the Women of Marvel!
240 PGS./Rated T+ …$19.99

Just so no one buys under false pretences - there will be a small amount of updating to some entries, but this is primarily a reprint volume. Obviously I hope it sells well, but I don't want anyone to buy it and then be disappointed.

Well, the final issue , #14 of the Hardcover series is out today! Running over the originally planned 12 issues to issue #14 and over year late, the series is finally over!

No entries for Alpha Flight in this one, although there ought to have been. This issue was the final clean-up of entries that didn't make it into the previous 13 issues. It's frustrating since so many other entries made it in, example: Frogs of Central Park had an entry, but not Manikin? Please. Frogs of Central Park?

The Frogs got an entry because the final volume included most of the entries from the Marvel Pets handbook. It wasn't an entry done specifically for this volume. There were some brand new entries, but various factors impacted on who got them. One of them, and one which reduced the chances of some of the remaining Alphans not yet covered in this series of appearing in this volume, was that we can now get brand new art for some entries, but we couldn't get it for the hardcover run. A couple of entries initially planned for this volume got bumped once we got the new art option, because they didn't have what you'd call ideal images available; the plan is to cover them down the line, with new art. Manbot, who turned up in AZ Update #1 a few months ago, was one such instance - pushing him back to that book meant he missed out on a place in HC #14, but got a nice new image. Some more of his fellow Alphans will be following suit later this year.