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

[icon_uk]

It's more than a little skeevy, Purple Man fell in love with a woman and she, as usual, had no say in the matter, but after a while eventually he realised that he actually DID love her and released her from his control, hoping she'd reciprocate. She was understandably not so agreeable about it and fled, and he never pursued her (He was actually sort of heartbroken, in his warped skeevy way). She discovered she was pregnant after that, but kept the child, who was normal until she turned 16, at which point Daddy's unusual skintone kicked in and she developed similar powers but became a hero in Alpha Flight/Beta Flight

[northstarfan]

...she developed similar powers but became a hero the bane of Northstar's existence in Alpha Flight/Beta Flight.

Fixed that. ;)