Old-school Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe

[proteus_lives]

Greetings True Believers!

I love old-school OHMUs. I picked up a handful at Wizard-Con. I really like the art and the way they really went all-out with the bios and power descriptions.

I picked out few examples of my favorite art from the stack I bought. WARNING! 80s fashion and hair-cuts ahoy!




Wave back at Devil Dinosaur!



Pre-movie Blade.



Boom-Boom's Madonna phase.



Bullseye with great crazy-eyes.



Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine (Fury's main-squeeze) look was later stolen by Rogue.



Meggan is just too adorable.



Moon Boy! Devil Dinosaur's BFF.



Persuasion, the Purple Man's daughter.



Look at Jubilee's scary Joker-grin.



Killraven's Playgirl pose.



Madame Hydra, Dr. Freud on line one for you.



I loved Psylocke's old-school look.



Razorback! A mutant trucker from Arkansas.



I almost forgot! Apparently Whoopi Goldberg was in Power Pack as Numinus.


Love these books.

Comments

[perletwo]

Oh my YES on Colan. Remember that little suspense/horror series he did for DC in the 80s, Night Force? I went from getting into comics via George Perez's nice clean New Teen Titans straight to reading that, and my little kid mind went "BUZUHHHHHH?!?" I knew it was impressive once I deciphered what I was looking at, but admiring both style extremes just did. not. compute.

[icon_uk]

So much motto to that, I was growing up at the same time, and after so much exposure to the ligne claire 9sp) approach, Coaln was like a slap in the face, it took a little longer to see the artistry of his work, but it was so worth the effort!

[nezchan]

I was kinda the same way with Bill Sienkiewicz's stuff back in the late 80's. I can look at it now and see what an amazing thing it was, but at the time I just couldn't comprehend what was in front of me.