03/25/07 - New list added by Prime Eternal for Glenn Herdling creations.
03/21/07 - Civil War Battle Damage Report is in stores...covering tons of the characters you know and love, plus an eclectic listing of major and ultra-rare characters in the Marvel Universe and their current status post Civil War.
03/17/07 - New List added by Snood for Tomes of Eldritch Knowledge.
02/17/07 - New List added by Snood for Swords of Sorcerous Might.
02/16/07 - New list added by Markus Raymond for Alpha Flight characters.
02/14/07 - This Valentine's Day, show her you that you really love her. Buy your significant other a copy of Marvel Legacy: the 1990s Handbook. She'll thrill when she realizes that you understand her love for Blackwulf, Captain Marvel (Genis), Ghost Rider 2099, and the Mutant Liberation Front. If she really is that special one, she might quiz you about Generation X and the Infinity Gauntlet. Just don't ask her to choose between you and the handbooks!
01/24/07 - Ringing in the new year with The All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update 2007 #1, in stores now! Featuring Appendix favorites like Brynocki, Manticore, Droog, Digitek, Huntarr, Man-Bull, Steel Wind, Garko the Man Frog and so many more! Pick your copy up today!
01/07/07 - New list added by Markus Raymond for Magic Users.
12/27/06 - The final issue of The All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z (#12) is in stores now! Complete your collection! With App-tastic profiles on faves like Urthona, Varnae, and more Zodiac than you thought possible!
11/22/06 - In stores today: The All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z#11! Featuring such Appendix favorites as Suma-Ket, Terminatrix, Thanatos and Torgo, not to mention big guns like Thanos and Two-Gun Kid! Pick up your copy today!
11/8/06 - Now in stores: Marvel Legacy: the 1980s Handbook! Co-written by several Appendix writers, it features many areas of the Marvel Universe that the Deluxe Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe never touched, plus many of the big guns (Iron Man, Thor, Avengers) as they were at the end of 1989! US Archer! Rocket Raccoon! Followers of Light! Crystar! Spaceknights!
10/25/06 - In stores today: The All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z#10! Featuring Shatterstar, SHIELD, Speedball, Sphinx, Spot, Stature, and Appendix favorites like Shadowoman, Shanzar, Slaymaster, and both Starlords! Pick up your copy today!
10/15/06 - New lists added by Markus Raymond for Iron Man, She-Hulk and those pesky terrorists HYDRA.
9/27/06 - In stores today: The All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z#9! Featuring Rawhide Kid, Radioactive Man, Sentinels and Appendix favorites like Shamrock and James Scully! Pick up your copy today!
9/13/06 - In stores today: Civil War Files...including all kinds of inside information all that story everyone loves. If you don't buy this, you're a LOSER!
8/30/06 - In stores today: The All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z#8! Featuring Appendix favorites like the N'Garai, Night Raven, Piranha and Priapus! Pick your copy up today!
8/9/06 - In stores today: Annihilation: Nova Corps Files, expanding beyond the back page profiles with greater depth & breadth, plus more characters, including Spirit, Skreet, the Fallen One, and many more
7/26/06 - In stores today: The All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z#7! Featuring Merlin, Merlin Demonspawn, Motormouth and other Appendix favorites!
7/19/06 - Now in stores...Planet Hulk: Gladiator Guidebook, by our own Zen Harawada...
7/15/06 - Since he's all the rage these days, we've got a list of Moon Knight characters.
6/28/06 - Now in stores: The All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z#6, with more of the characters you love. Killpower! Justice of the New Universe! Magus! Man-Beast! and many more!
6/21/06 - Now in stores: Marvel Westerns: Outlaw Files! Go on and git yourself a mess of 'em, ya owlhoots!
5/31/06 - Now in stores: The All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z#5, with more of the characters you love. Gorilla-Man! Cockroach Hamilton! Helleyes! Two different Hybrids! and of course, Howard the Duck!
5/30/06 - Sympathies to Grendel Prime who broke one wrist and sprained the other. Get well soon!
05/17/06 - Now in stores: Marvel Legacy: the 1970s Handbook! Co-written by several Appendix writers, get all the classic goodness from the era of disco! Hellcow! Hypno-Hustler! Manphibian! and more!
04/26/06 - Now in stores: The All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z#4, with more of the characters you love, the writers and editors you tolerate, and the price you can't say no to. Don't make us play the Elf with a Gun card on you!
03/31/06 - Now in stores: The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe 2006 A-Z#3!!! Diamondhead! Dr. Nemesis! 2 different Death's Heads! Co-written by several Appendix writers, so buy 52 copies!
2/26/06 - Added a page for Brood, compiled by Darc_Light, our Brood expert!
2/22/06 - Now in stores: The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe 2006 A-Z#2!!! The Big Wheel! Bug! And many more characters never before featured in a Handbook! Co-written by several Appendix writers, so buy 51 copies! (why 51? Because you bought 50 of #1, right? And you want Marvel to see that sales of the series are going up, right? RIGHT?)
2/8/06 - Now in stores: Marvel Legacy: The 1960s with characters as they existed at the end of 1969, including many that never had an entry before.
1/26/06 - Now in stores: The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe 2006 A-Z#1 with many characters that never had an entry before.
1/11/06 - Added a page for Atlanteans, compiled by Madison Carter. It's still a work in progress, though.
1/11/06 - Excuse the delinquency, but go pick up the X-Men: Handbook 2005 and Ultimate Handbook 2 (X-Men and Ultimates). They're partially written by your friends at the Appendix. And get yourself ready to buy 50 copies of the first issue of the 2006 A-Z Handbook!
12/21/05 - Added a page for Asians of all nationalities, compiled by Prime Eternal!
11/19/05 - Added pages for Steve Gerber creations (compiled by Scott Hutchins), Inhumans and the Kree (both compiled by Markus Raymond).
11/16/05 - Now in stores: Marvel Monsters: From the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone and the Monster Hunters featuring all of your favorite Kirby-era monsters (Fin Fang Foom, Gargantus and more!). From the guys that bring you the Appendix, so please support it by buying this book!
10/19/05 - Now in stores: The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Horror 2005 featuring all your faves from Dracula to Jack Russell and from Frankenstein's Monster to Brother Voodoo! Support the Marvel Appendix and learn some stuff you didn't know.
9/28/05 - Now in stores: The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Alternate Universes 2005! Killraven! MC2! Spider-Ham!!! If you want to support the Appendix, please support the Official Handbooks and 'Pedias, written by the guys at the Appendix
9/28/05 - Added a supplementary page for Morlocks links - compiled by Madison Carter
8/27/2005 - Now in stores: The Official Handbook of the Ultimate Universe: Ultimate Fantastic Four and Spider-Man 2005! If you like the site, then support the books!
7/27/2005 - Now in stores: The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Avengers 2005! If you like the site, then support the books!
7/26/05 - Added a page for Peter David creations, as compiled by Stunner
6/30/2005 - Now in stores: The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Fantastic Four 2005! If you like the site, then support the books!
6/27/05 - Welcome Grendel Prime, our 59th contributor!
5/25/05 - Now in stores: Secret War: From the Files of Nick Fury! Any familiar names among those S.H.I.E.L.D. agents? Another Appendix-approved product!
5/22/05 - Welcome to Minor Irritant, our 58th contributor!
5/18/05 - The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe:
Teams 2005 is in the stores! Written by the House of S (House
of Snood, that is), and featuring a team YOU AIN'T NEVER
HEARD OF!!!!
If you want to support the Appendix, please support our Official
Handbooks and 'Pedias, written by the guys at the Appendix
5/10/05 - Welcome to Reddie, our 57th contributor!
4/20/05 - The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Spider-Man 2005 is in the stores! If you want to support the Appendix, please support our Official Handbooks and 'Pedias, written by the guys at the Appendix
3/28/05 - Added a page for Scourge of the Underworld victims, compiled by Madison Carter and Monzo.
3/26/05 - Welcome to BKole, our 56th contributor!
3/19/05 - Welcome to Monzo, our 55th contributor!
3/12/05 - Added a page for Nazi characters, compiled by Stunner
3/8/05 - Welcome to John Kaminski, our 54th contributor!
2/23/05 - Added a page for Native American characters, by Prime Eternal
2/21/05 - Welcome to Spidermay, our 53rd contributor!
2/16/05 - The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Marvel Knights 2005 is in the stores! If you want to support the Appendix, please support our Official Handbooks and 'Pedias, written by the guys at the Appendix, plus ComiX-Fan's Eric Moreels, the guys at Spider-Fan, etc.!
1/29/05 - Welcome to Chad Anderson, our 52nd contributor!
1/28/05 - The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Women of Marvel Comics 2005 is in the stores! If you want to support the Appendix, please support our Official Handbooks and 'Pedias, written by the guys at the Appendix, plus ComiX-Fan's Eric Moreels, the guys at Spider-Fan, etc.!
1/17/05 - Welcome to Barry Reese, our 51st contributor!
1/17/05 - I haven't been keeping up with this, but several of us
here have written the Fantastic Four Encyclopedia, and
the following OHotMUs: Daredevil, Wolverine,
Book of the Dead, and Golden Age!
Out this week (or soon): Women of Marvel Comics; next
month is Marvel Knights; and more to come, as long as
you guys support them. This site is obviously free to the readers and
other writers, but I pay for it, and you could really help out by
buying these books. Plus, they have tons of great info. The FFE makes a
great present!
12/27/04 - welcome aboard LV (Graham Weaver), our 50th contributor!
12/12/04 - welcome aboard Donald Campbell, our 49th contributor!
12/08/04 - welcome aboard Spiderpool, our 48th contributor!
11/12/04 - welcome aboard Thomas Person, Nemedian Chronicler, our 47th contributor!
9/30/04 - welcome aboard Graham Willis, Cypher, our 46th contributor!
8/29/04 - welcome aboard Patrick D Ryall, our 45th contributer!
8/4/04 - The Official Handbook of the Marvel
Universe: Hulk 2004 is now in stores!
Written by the folks at the Appendix, including Snood (Jeff
Christiansen), Ronald Byrd, Prime Eternal (Michael Hoskin), Loki
(Stuart Vandal), Stunner (Gabriel Shechter), and Elf with a Gun (Chris
Bigs).
Be sure to pick up the Daredevil, Wolverine, and Book
of the Dead OHotMUs (We wrote those, too), and the upcoming Fantastic
Four Encyclopedia (ditto).
7/7/04 - The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Avengers 2004
is now in stores!
Written by the folks at the Appendix, including Snood (Jeff
Christiansen), Prime Eternal (Michael Hoskin), Ronald Byrd, Jacob
(Proto-Man), and Loki (Stuart Vandal).
6/20/04 - added a page for Jim Starlin creations, by Zerostar
6/18/04 - welcome aboard our new links editor, Future, who's been a profiler for awhile now. Thanks Future!!!
2/10/04 - Stunner has taken on the arduous task of our adding all of the profile links to our multitude of pages. This is a ton of work, and it takes a BIG load off of the rest of the editors!
2/6/04 - Thanks to Skullogeist,
Luis, Omar Karindu and others for putting together a batch of
Marvel Knights type characters pages: Blade,
Daredevil,
Dr. Strange,
Ghost Rider,
Man-Thing!
Oh yeah, and Howard the Duck, baby! : Howard the Duck
2/2/04 - welcome to Somebody, our 43rd contributor!
1/24/04 - courtesy of Luis, we have a checklist page to help those who can't remember the formatting they are supposed to use. You know who you are! Use it, ya bastiches!!
1/17/04 - welcome to Future, our 42nd contributor!
01/04/04 - welcome to Mikel Midnight, our 41st contributor!
12/29/03 - welcome to Mark O. English, SQUEAK, our 40th contributor!
12/26/03 - welcome to Markus Raymond, our 39th contributor!
12/6/03 - welcome to Darc_Light, our 38th contributor!
10/24/03 - Added the Spider-Man appendix, the unabridged compilation of pretty much everyone Spidey's ever run into. Compiled by Ronald Byrd and Snood. This is a supplement to the upcoming Spider-Man Encyclopedia (in stores 11/5/03 (or sooner in some screwed up cases!!!)) and is endorsed by Marvel. The URL is listed in the 'Pedia. I was one of the major researchers/contributors to that book, along with Ronald, Prime Eternal, and a bunch of others you'll see listed in the "thanks to:" column.
10/1/03 - The author of this great site: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/7160/toc.html wrote this book: Heroes & Monsters: Unofficial Companion to the League of Extraordinary Gentleman (2003, Monkeybrain Books, Jess Nevins) --check it out!!!
9/1/03 - welcome to Chris Biggs, Elf with a Gun (aauuhhgg! A girl! Run for the hills!), our 37th contributor!
8/10/03 - Punisher profiles are going to take precedence over all others for me for the next few months. I'll tell you why later!
8/4/03 - added a Punisher characters page. Actually, I just added a bunch from memory, so let me know who else I've got on the site!
7/16/03 - caught up with the profiles...now on to the 100 comics to index!
7/14/03 - Sersi's Loft has added a page for Eternals characters, compiled by Brendon Lutwyche. Thanks, Brendon! (this link will take you to Sersi's Loft)
7/13/03 - I'm back, baby! Snood
is in the Hizz-ouse! Over the next week, I'll be uploading the 25
profiles that I did in the last 6 weeks (6 today, and then the
first 18 on the upcoming list. Then I'll start to mix in others,
but I'd like to complete the Justice, Ultraverse (and then Freex
and Exiles), Dracula (and then other monster) magazine
characters, so I'll be focusing on them. I'll also still be doing
a lot of Spider-Man, b/c I'd like to have the characters covered
for the Spdm Encyclopedia (which myself and several others at
this site were involved with. Then, depending on whether the
Marvel Knights Encyclopedia proves to be my cup of tea or not, I
may be focusing on a lot of those characters as well.
New e-mail address: snood999@bellsouth.net
7/01/03 - added a page for Dr. Strange characters.
7/01/03 - added a page for Howard the Duck characters.
6/20/03 - welcome to Jim Mullins, the ExWhaler, our 36th contributor!
6/18/03 - added a page for Fantastic Four characters.
5/27/03 - DUE TO THE MOVE (to Sunny Florida), I
WILL NOT HAVE ACCESS TO THE BULK OF MY COMICS FOR SOME TIME, SO
I'LL DO WHAT CHARACTERS I CAN COVER. I ALSO PROBABLY WON'T HAVE A
SCANNER, SO IT MAY BE A MONTH BEFORE I HAVE ANOTHER PROFILE
POSTED.
Prime Eternal and Loki will run the show until I'm back in action.
I'm gone. You can reach me at snood911a@yahoo.com
4/10/03 - welcome to Alex Knowles, our 36th contributor! Look for him to be covering the lesser seen Olympian Gods.
3/7/03 - added a page for Hulk characters, courtesy of Bill Lentz. Thanks Bill!
2/20/03 - welcome to Valerio Pastore, Wolfhead, our 35th contributor!
2/8/03 - welcome to Gabriel Shechter, Stunner, our 34th contributor!
1/23/03 - welcome to Madison Carter, our 33rd contributor!
1/7/03 - welcome to Ron Byrd, our 32nd contributor!
12/19/02 - added an Index page for the Shadowline, which also details its nature.
12/18/02 - added an Index page for the robots covered at this site, courtesy of Spaceknight.
12/12/02 - welcome to Al Sjoerdsma, our 31st contributor!
12/10/02 - welcome to Caesar Godzillatron, our 30th contributor!
12/1/02 - Added Index pages for the obscure mutants covered at this site, courtesy of Zerostar.
11/30/02 - Added Index pages for characters created by Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby!
11/28/02 - welcome to Skullogeist, our 29th contributor, who brings us our first Amalgam profiles!
11/20/02 - A new layout for the Upcoming Profiles list, courtesy of new formatting and images editor Luis Dantas.
10/27/02 - Added lists of Vampires and Dracula characters!
10/24/02 - welcome to Luis Olavo Dantas, our 28th contributor!!
10/6/02 - welcome to Ben Peberdy, Spaceknight, our 27th contributor!!
9/26/02 - Completed our 1000th profile!!!!
9/18/02 - Added list of Stan Lee creations.
9/13/02 - The upgrade is complete and we are now on a dedicated server! Now I need to take a second job to pay for this!
9/8/02 - welcome to Zerostar, our twenty-sixth contributor!
9/7/02 - Reorganized the profiles link page.
9/5/02 - Greg O'Driscoll is our new Sword + Sorcery editor, a catch-all position covering various mythological, Hyborian Era, and Pre-Cataclysmic-related profiles.
9/5/02 - Added a Star-Lord characters page
9/3/02 - Per Degaton compiled a useful links page: Hyborian Characters interacting with Modern Characters
8/27/02 - please AVOID DOWNLOADING THE PROFILES. See Site Problems for an explanation.
8/26/02 - The Beetle sent me 32 new profiles. That struck me as newsworthy!!
8/22/02 - Welcome to The Voice of Doom, our twenty-fifth contributor!
8/15/02 - Please read Captain Marvel!!! Now's your chance to show Marvel that you do enjoy continuity and obscure characters, during the U-Decide contest.
8/13/02 - Welcome to LOKI, our twenty-fourth contributor! Another resource for the Marvel UK.
8/11/02 - I made an nice set of guidelines to follow if you want to join the Masters of the Obscure.
7/20/02-With our 800th profile, I reckon we surpassed the OHotMU Master Edition as the largest source of character profiles!
6/19/02-First profile submitted by Hugo V. Negron, our twenty-third contributor!
6/16/02-First profile submitted by Sammy7D, our twenty-second contributor!
6/6/02-First profile for the 2099 timeline.
6/2/02-Compiled by Flank McLargehuge, a link/page for Russian and/or Communists.
5/27/02-Welcome Changeling, Rich Green, our twenty-first contributor!
5/23/02-Compiled by Prime Eternal, a link/page for Mark Gruenwald creations.
5/23/02-Welcome aboard Gauntlet: Dark Rider, our twentieth contributor!
5/21/02-Welcome aboard Per Degaton, our nineteenth contributor.
5/20/02-Welcome aboard Cisco, our eighteenth contributor, who also redesigned the index page!
5/15/02-Added a link/page for the early Horror/Sci-Fi characters, compiled by Prime Eternal
5/11/02-First profile for the Ultraverse.
5/1/02-this news is a few weeks
old, but the Unofficial
Handbook of the Marvel Universe
is back, baby! It lost its server, and so I am allowing
them space under my domain.
The new URL is http://www.marvunapp.com/handbook/framepage.htm
4/22/02-Welcome aboard Nick Hill, the Squid, our seventeenth contributor!
4/20/02--why do I do this to
myself?
ok, here's three more sets of character oriented links:
Killraven
Guardians of the Galaxy
Shang-Chi, Master of Kung-Fu
--I'm NOT going to do any more of these for awhile.
4/11/02-For the last few weeks, my efforts have been assisted by my new group of editors. Thanks to the Anti-Grimm, caliban, and Prime Eternal, who are REALLY helping me out by adding images, editing and formating, etc.--in general taking the submissions, and making them into a form I can just upload. Thanks a bunch, guys!
4/8/02--Courtesy of Prime
Eternal, we've got our first batch of
NEW UNIVERSE characters.
In addition, I've added a link to this group of characters: New Universe
4/6/02-Welcome Cheyne, our sixteenth contributor!
4/1/02-I added a few
collections of characters/groups/etc. recently, grouped together
for your convenience. I did it all by memory and quick searches,
so let me know who I'm missing, and I'll add it. These groups
include:
Marvel UK
Conan/Hyborian era
Kull/Pre-Cataclysmic era
Cowboy/Old West/late 19th Century
3/4/02-Welcome Mark Caithness and FortMax-fourteenth and fifteenth contributors.
3/3/02-I passed the Surgery Boards!!!!!!!
2/17/02-Welcome Mick Martin, the Anti-Grimm--thirteenth contributor
2/15/02-Welcome Greg O'Driscoll, the Conan man--the twelfth contributor
2/14/02-Welcome Prime Eternal and Peter Kroon, the tenth and eleventh contributors.
1/20/02-Welcome Chuck D, my ninth contributor.
1/19/02-Welcome Flank McLargehuge, my eighth contributor.
1/18/02-Got a profile from William Uchtman, my seventh contributor.
1/12/02-Got a profile from Henrique Ferreira, my sixth contributor.
1/11/02-Linked Tapping Tommy to sound. check it out under comments until I can figure out how to make it play by itself.
1/8/02-Got a few profiles from Proto-Man, my fifth contributor. They're up, under New Profiles
1/5/02-I added a character list for guys who've encountered Spider-Man. Ley me know who I've missed. I don't see myself doing this for any other characters in the near future, but I would REALLY like to add a search engine to my site to allow others to be able to pull up groups of characters of a certain class.
11/5/01-got three profiles from caliban, my fourth contributor. Check them out under the New Profiles link above.
11/1/01-got two profiles by Omar Karindu, my third contributor. Check them out, and hopefully others soon, under the New Profiles link above.
10/30/01-got by first profile from Kyle Smith, my second contributor. Check it out, and hopefully others soon, under the New Profiles link above.
10/15/01-I started a Master List of characters that I plan on eventually doing profiles on.
10/10/01-Kim Henckel, the Beetle, has submitted some great profiles, which I should have up within the week. Any other "Masters of the Obscure" should get off their butts and give us a hand (please)! There are literally thousands of characters who need profiles!
10/01/01-I added a section on questions to the main page. It's only got a few now, but keep checking it out, and help me fill in the holes in my info.