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Issue: The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #8
Publication Date: August 1983
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Issues: #8 of 15 Issues (45 Printings)
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Is Variant Variant: Newsstand
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 04/26/1983
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0714860281208
Price: $1.00 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
38 (0 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #24.
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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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N-P From Namorita to Pyro

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Contents

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Namorita

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Character(s): Namorita
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Nekra

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Nick Fury

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Character(s): Nick Fury
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Nightcrawler

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Nightcrawler [Kurt Wagner]
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Nightmare

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Disclose Notes: Inset panel clip art (altered) from page 10, panel 4 (Cyrus Black removed) from Doctor Strange (Marvel, 1974 series) #35 (June 1979).
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Night Rider

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Nightshade

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Nikki

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Disclose Notes: Nikki is said here to have orange hair, arranged as "a pompadour of flame." Later on, in the Guardians of the Galaxy comic, it's established that Nikki's flaming hair is real.
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Nitro

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Nomad

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Character(s): Nomad [Jack Monroe]
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Northstar

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Character(s): Northstar [Jean-Baptiste Beaubier]
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Disclose Notes: Inset panel clip art (altered) from page 7, panel 3 from Alpha Flight (Marvel, 1983 series) #2 (September 1983).
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Nova

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Character(s): Nova [Frankie Raye]
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Odin

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Olympians

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Character(s): Zeus; Hera; Pluto; Neptune; Ares; Apollo; Artemis; Athena; Venus; Hermes; Vesta; Hephaestus; Dionysius; Hippolyta; Hercules
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Orka

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Overmind

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Owl

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Owl [Leland Owlsley]
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Paladin

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Peregrine

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Character(s): Peregrine
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Plantman

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Character(s): Plantman [Samuel Smithers]
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Plunderer

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Pluto

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Polaris

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Character(s): Polaris [Lorna Dane]
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Power Man

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Character(s): Power Man [Luke Cage]
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Professor Power

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Professor X

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Character(s): Professor X [Charles Xavier]
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Project: Pegasus

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Disclose Notes: Diagrams of Project: Pegasus.
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Psyche

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Character(s): Psyche [Danielle Moonstar]
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Psycho-Man

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Puck

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Character(s): Puck [Eugene Judd]
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Disclose Notes: Inset panel clip art (altered) from page 25, panel 3 from Alpha Flight (Marvel, 1983 series) #1 (August 1983).
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Punisher

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Character(s): Punisher [Frank Castle]
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Disclose Notes: Inset panel clip art (altered and mirrored) from page 9, panel 1 from Daredevil (Marvel, 1964 series) #183 (June 1982).
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Puppet Master

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Character(s): Puppet Master [Phillip Masters]
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Purple Man

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Character(s): Purple Man [Zebediah Killgrave]
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Pyro

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Pyro [St.John Allerdyce]
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Alien Races

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Queega; Quons; Rajaks; Reptoids; Rhunians; Rigellians; R'malk'i; Roclites
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Appendix

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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.

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