Weapons from Handbook

[Shiryu]

Surfing on the web I came across the e-copy of some old Marvel Handbooks, including one about weapons. Some pages are Avengers related and quite interesting, I'll post here a few if someone wants to read them.

Captain America motorbyke + shield

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Hawkeye bow + quiver

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Iron Man classic armor

www.icavalieridellozodiaco.net/images/hbk03.jpg

Iron Man classic helmet

www.icavalieridellozodiaco.net/images/hbk04.jpg

Machine Man

www.icavalieridellozodiaco.net/images/hbk05.jpg

Just note that this handbook is from the early 80s, so some things may have changed with time.

[Yellowjacket]

I´d think they are from the volume 1 Handbook (can´t check it right now).

I recently bought this first volume and like it very much. In point of "feeling" it´s very much the same as with the books - the new ones must not be bad at all, but the old ones are cult!

[Shiryu]

You may be correct, it's issue 12 or so of a series of handbooks. The first ones treated every important character alphabetically, then there were two Books of the Deads and this one on weapons.

[The Night Phantom]

The original Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe was to cover just active characters, teams, places, et al. in its twelve issues, but it ended up publishing fifteen issues: #s 13 & 14 were the “Books of the Dead and Inactive”, and #15 was the “Book of Weapons”. In the Deluxe Edition, the weapons and other devices were generally folded into their associated characters’ main entries.

[imperiusrex]

shiryu said:

Surfing on the web I came across the e-copy of some old Marvel Handbooks, including one about weapons. Some pages are Avengers related and quite interesting, I'll post here a few if someone wants to read them.

Captain America motorbyke + shield

www.icavalieridellozodiaco.net/images/hbk01.jpg

Hawkeye bow + quiver

www.icavalieridellozodiaco.net/images/hbk02.jpg

Iron Man classic armor

www.icavalieridellozodiaco.net/images/hbk03.jpg

Iron Man classic helmet

www.icavalieridellozodiaco.net/images/hbk04.jpg

Machine Man

www.icavalieridellozodiaco.net/images/hbk05.jpg

Just note that this handbook is from the early 80s, so some things may have changed with time.

Yeah I guess this is before Hawkeye bought the exploding quiver.
And yes I am still bitter about Disassembled...

[Shiryu]

nightphantom said:

The original Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe was to cover just active characters, teams, places, et al. in its twelve issues, but it ended up publishing fifteen issues: #s 13 & 14 were the “Books of the Dead and Inactive”, and #15 was the “Book of Weapons”. In the Deluxe Edition, the weapons and other devices were generally folded into their associated characters’ main entries.

Yep, it's this one !

Reading them, I was quite impressed. See for example the Machine Man schematics. I doubt they have ever been explained with so much detail in the comic itself, so the author must have had most of X51 appereances and then draw the schematics accordingly (and trying to give them some sense).
Same for Iron Man armor and helmet.