The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe
Marvel · 1989–1990 · 8 issues
About the series
A concise, eight-issue Marvel series from 1989–1990, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe served as a comic-book-format update to the classic reference guides, with writer/artist Marc Siry and artist Ron Frenz providing clean, detailed visuals. It distilled the sprawling Marvel cosmos into compact entries, offering a snapshot of the publisher's characters and concepts during that era. For fans, it's a handy, era-specific reference point that captures the state of the Marvel Universe at the close of the 1980s.