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Issue: The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #3
Publication Date: March 1983
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Issues: #3 of 15 Issues (45 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct Edition
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 12/14/1982
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.25 CAD
£0.50 GBP
$1.00 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 37 (0 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Mark Gruenwald (editor); Michael Carlin [Mike Carlin] (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #17.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: limited series
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C-D: From The Collector to Dracula

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Contents

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Collector

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Character(s): Collector
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Colossus

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Colossus [Piotr Rasputin]
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Constrictor

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Contemplator

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Controller

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Corruptor

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Character(s): Corruptor
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Disclose Notes: Inset panel clip art (altered) from: page 4, panel 3 from Nova (Marvel, 1976 series) #21 (September 1978).
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Crimson Dynamo

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Character(s): Crimson Dynamo
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Crystal

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Character(s): Crystal
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Disclose Notes: Inset panel clip art (altered) from: page 12, panel 3 (Crystal costume changed) from Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #87 (June 1969).
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Cyclops

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Character(s): Cyclops [Scott Summers]
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Daily Bugle

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Daredevil

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Character(s): Daredevil [Matt Murdock]
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Daredevil's Apartment/Daredevil's Billy Club

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Disclose Notes: Diagrams of Daredevil's apartment and billy club.
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Darkstar

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Dazzler

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Death Adder

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Deathbird

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Deathlok

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Defenders

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Defenders [Doctor Strange; Sub-Mariner; Hulk; Silver Surfer; Valkyrie; Nighthawk; Son of Satan; Red Guardian; Clea; Hellcat; Devil-Slayer; Gargoyle; Beast; Overmind; Angel; Iceman; Moondragon]
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Defensor

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Character(s): Defensor
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Demons

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Genres: supernatural
Character(s): Mephisto; Zarathos; Baphomet; Belathauzzer; Ningal; Thog; Dweller in Darkness; Shuma-Gorath; Allatou; Satannish; Asmodeus; Nightmare; D'Spayre; Dagoth
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Disclose Notes: Elder Gods groupshot art. Figures of Gaea, Set and Chthon (altered and redrawn) from: page 2, panel 3 from Thor Annual (Marvel, 1966 series) #10 (1982). Figure of Demogorge new and redrawn, based upon last panel appearance of it in the same story.
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Destiny

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Character(s): Destiny
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Deviants

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Character(s): Deviants [Vira; Kro; Tode; Ransak the Reject; Dragona; Erishkigel; Zakka; Shelmar; Toro Rojo; Broop; Ragar; Sluice]
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Disclose Notes: Faces possibly inked by Mignola instead of Rubinstein.
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Devil-Slayer

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Diablo

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Character(s): Diablo
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Doc Samson

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Character(s): Doc Samson [Leonard Samson]
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Doctor Doom

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Character(s): Doctor Doom [Victor von Doom]
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Doctor Doom's Castle

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Disclose Notes: Illustration and diagram of Doctor Doom's castle.

Castle panel clip art (altered) from: page 2, panel 1 from Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #87 (June 1969).
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Doctor Druid

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Character(s): Doctor Druid [Anthony Druid]
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Doctor Octopus

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Character(s): Doctor Octopus [Otto Octavius]
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Doctor Strange

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Character(s): Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]
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Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum

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Disclose Notes: Diagram of Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum.
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Dormammu

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Character(s): Dormammu
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Dracula

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Character(s): Dracula
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Alien Races

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Appendix

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