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| Essential Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe - Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1 (Marvel Essentials) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Mark Gruenwald, Peter Sanderson, Eliot R. Brown, & More, John Byrne, Dave Cockrum, Bob Layton, John Romita Jr.
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Category: Book
List Price: $16.99
Buy New: $4.92
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 520414
Media: Paperback
Edition: Deluxe
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 6.6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0785119345
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9780785119340
ASIN: 0785119345
Publication Date: March 29, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Good Condition, delivery time 10 to 12 Working days, via Priority airmail from UK
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Product Description
The original encyclopedia of adventures: expanded, augmented and updated! Marvel's continuity kings continued their quest for completeness in these issues of dedicated Deluxeness! Top talent teamed to headline heroes like Captain America, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, Nick Fury, the Hulk and dozens of others! Full lineups of the Avengers, the Defenders, the Fantastic Four and more! Collects OHOTMU Deluxe #1-7.
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 A complete paperback compilation of the deluxe edition... April 21, 2006
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
...in three installments. I did not have the privilege of owning the original run of the Deluxe Edition of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, but I do have the trade paperback of ten volumes, which unfortunately when read by volume will fall apart on the spine (the 1st 4 volumes were carelessly bound). For the first time I read the entries for such obscure Marvel characters as Cloud, Arnim Zola, Blackout (which has another entry of the Deluxe Edition's Book(s) of the Dead), and for the first time I see the original feature illustrations for Angel, Cyclops, and Hawkeye which were replaced in the trade paperback edition. For a Marvel fan who has lived throughout the seventies and eighties this is the book for u, the era before the so-called "Dark Ages" of comicbook. Here are the Marvel characters who ante-dates the overexposure of the X-Men and the antihero and the big gun types. This is the expansion of the original run of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (1983-1984), which explains why most feature illustrations of characters are exactly the same as in the first run. The only handicap of this series was that it failed to materialize its own Appendix, unlike in the first series, which published them on the back of the backcover.
 It's in black and white April 30, 2006
7 out of 24 found this review helpful
It's great that editions 1-7 are collected here but it would have been MUCH better if the illustrations were in color.
 Loved it! June 16, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I know there are alot of things that could be complained about if you want to get picky, there's bound to be SOMEONE who doesn't have a full entry, or their own entry, and it's true, there ARE a few...but SERIOUSLY! The most comprehensive encyclopedia of the Marvel character universe ever undertaken! No longer is your favorite hero or villian reduced to a maximum of one page, now whatever it takes to flesh out the bio, the more that's in there. Rich, imaginative diagrams and spec sheets of just about everything non-living that has an importance in Marvel. Iron Man's armor, the Avengers Mansion, too many to list. Read the whole first edition in a sit down, I remember my brother buying the original series, simply overwhelming, and a MUST OWN for any more than casual Marvel fan. Just got notified that Edition2 is on it's way, I can't wait!!!
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