1986 - Anatomy of a Cover - Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #7

Daily Bugle - Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Entry by John Romita Sr

The Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe REDUXE Edition

Here's another wonderful 1980s inspired blog: http://ohotmuredux.blogspot.ca/

The Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe REDUXE Edition invites a select group of disparate cartoonists and artist to come together in order to recreate every single character entry in the original Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe (Deluxe Edition) in their own inimitable style.

And here's just a sample of the amazing work you'll find there:

1985 - Alien Entries in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe by Dave Cockrum and Joe Rubinstein

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1986 - Marvel Reference Library House Ad

1983 - Fantastic Four Entry from The Official Handbook Of The Marvel Universe #4

Art by John Byrne. Diagrams by Eliot R. Brown.

1983 - X-Men entry for the The Official Handbook Of The Marvel Universe #12

1989 - X-Factor headshots for the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe

From the Walt Simonson's Facebook albums:

"X-Factor's original members. Pencil. 9.5 x 15. 1989??. Found this as I was rummaging around for something else. These are the pencils for the portraits of the characters that appeared in the X-Factor entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. (Thanks to various folks who were able to identify the drawings, where I was clueless. )"

And here's the published version:

1986 - Black Knight by Kerry Gammill

From issue #2 of the Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe.

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Romita Jr.'s Mr. Hyde for the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe

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1985 - Anatomy of a cover - Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #1

http://www.coollinesartwork.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=172569&ArtistId=503&Details=1&From=Room

1986 - X-Men headshots from the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe

Here's a cool double-page spread featuring a variety of X-characters drawn by Alan Davis and Joe Rubinstein. Can you name them all?

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1982 - Black Cat by Romita Jr.

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1983 - House Ads