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* ''Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe''. In 2004-2005, Marvel began releasing handbooks with various themes, such as [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]] or [[The Golden Age of Comic Books]]. This was followed by an alphabetical series made up mostly of other characters, and several updates. See Marvel's [http://www.marvel.com/universe/OHOTMU OHOTMU web page here].
** Collected with more updates as ''Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe'' Premiere Hardcovers in 2008-2010.
** Trade paperbacks reprinting the hardcovers and containing yet more updates came out for a while, but the series was cancelled before it ended.
* Associated titles include the Marvel Atlas two-part series and character or team-specific handbooks, usually one a month, such as the [[Iron Man|Iron Manuals Mk. 2 and Mk. 3]], [[Deadpool|Deadpool: Rank and Foul]], and [[The Mighty Thor|Encyclopedia]] [[Incredible Hercules|Mythologica]].
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** [[Wolverine]]'s claws were shown as bionic implants. Later stories ignored this and had them be natural.
** The [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|wackier stories]] in [[She Hulk]] were explained as having occurred, just [[Unreliable Narrator|not quite the way the comics showed]].
** A recent{{when}} entry basically confirmed the events of the [[JLA-Avengers]] crossover as being canonical to the [[Marvel Universe]] (without mentioning DC's characters.)
* [[Exiled From Continuity]]: [[ROM Spaceknight]] got an entry once, despite Marvel not owning the rights to the character.
* [[Fan Service]]: Of the nerd type, though some of the illustrations could also be considered quite attractive.
** For fans of engineering, the inner workings of technological devices from Hawkeye's [[Trick Arrow
* [[Power Levels]]: Originally, the OHOTMU measured the strength of characters by how much weight they could lift or press (the maximum was 100 tons.) This was later replaced with bar-type tables.
** [[Squirrel Girl]] has [[Parody Sue|maximum level in all stats]], but this is an [[Running Gag|in-joke]]; she has never shown such levels of power in the comics. Most of her victories against powerful villains have been [[Informed Ability|off-panel]], and the on-panel ones tend toward [[Silver Age|silly]] [[Affectionate Parody|contrivances]] rather than [[Power Levels]].
* [[Promoted Fanboy]]: Besides Gruenwald, the contributors to the website [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/ ''The Unofficial Appendix To The Handbook Of The Marvel Universe''
* [[Trope Maker]]: For the whole concept of doing superhero encyclopedias in comic book format, soon imitated by DC and other companies.
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