The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #19

The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe "Book of the Dead Deluxe Edition" #19 brings together a striking assembly of Marvel's fallen, with Red Skull commanding the center of Keith Pollard and Josef Rubinstein's cover, surrounded by a crowd that includes a red-haired woman, a blonde woman in blue, and an array of costumed figures pressing forward from the background. It's a fittingly eerie parade of characters rendered with the clean, detailed linework that made this reference series such a treasure for Marvel readers in 1987. Mark Gruenwald's exhaustive handbook project continues to be an essential deep-dive into the Marvel Universe's most consequential — and no longer living — players.