8. the Owl?
12. Osprey?

McLean Stevenson.  He left his role as Lt. Colonel Henry Blake on M*A*S*H for this.

Becky Blake (Daredevil supporting cast)

Zula (Hyborean era swordsman, sorceror, ally of Conan)

Yasmela (Hyborean era princess, Conan character)

2. Gambi
9. Green Arrow
14. Ginger (don't know her last name)
15. Girls

8. Infinity, Inc.?

X-Cellent (team of mutants formed by Zeitgeist, fought reformed X-Statix)

Loki wrote:

Nexus wrote:

I get the feeling that the maybe Marvel should have waited a little longer before bring the the X or Swords handbook. Just read Excalibur #16 today and there are mad retcons being made. Makes some of the entries in the handbook feel old hat.

Peril of any handbook. No matter when you publish, there's always a risk that the very next issue a character appears in we get a retcon that changes things.

Always remember the gold standard: Barry "The Flash II" Allen received an entry in the original WHO'S WHO, issue #8 to be exact, one month before he died in CRISIS #8.  I mean, they weren't going to spoil that story, but it was a pretty major status quo change that made his entry immediately out of date.

Tom Thumb (Earth-712's Squadron Supreme member)

Charles Rider (father of Richard and Robert Rider)

Qermit (frog-like other-dimensional alien, member of the Silver Legion, Silver Surfer character)

Andy E. Nystrom wrote:

This quiz is on the 1980s-1990s Suicide Squad series
1.What mini-series did Suicide Squad spin out of?
2.An issue of what other title led into the first issue?
3.Which two characters were also in the 1960s adventures?
4.Captain Boomerang once posted as who?
5.Which Atom was a member of the Suicide Squad?
6.Who considered voluntarily being killed by Deadshot, but later changed their mind?
7.Which tie-in with a high body count consistently mostly of non-regular members?
8.Who did Captain Boomerang refuse to rescue on the team’s second mission (after the above mini-series) because they taunted him?
9.Who did the Duchess turn out to be?
10.What was the name of the helicopter?
11.Which reformed villain moved on to his own series after a mission?
12.Who was the most prominent Batman villain to do at least one mission with the team?
13.Who were the two writers on this run of the series (ignoring tie-ins)?
14.Who was the original artist of the series?
15.Which mini-series spun out of the series?
16.Who returned from their seeming demise in another title in the second issue?
17.Which relatively harmless prank did Captain Boomerang pull on the team for a time?
18.Which Charlton hero had an extended stint on the team?
19.Which hero’s foes constituted a large number of the series’ casualties (even more if count the tie-in from question 7)?
20.Which member of the Squad was a Firestorm character who originally was more of a nuisance than a flat out villain?
21.Whose membership was later negated by a Vertigo series (or at the very least means the team somehow acquired an earlier version of the character)?
22.Which villain group did the team face in #1-2?
 

7. Doom Patrol/Suicide Squad #1
10. Sheba
17. Throwing pies into people's faces (he threw suspicion off of himself by using a boomerang to throw a pie into his own face)
19. Firestorm
20. Cliff Carmichael, AKA the second Thinker

Bonus question:  Which two characters from #7 have been annou

41. Sandman
42. Sandy the Golden Boy

slevin87 wrote:

Got my copy delivered to my Kindle last night. Here's who is covered with page counts:

Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur/A) (3)
Broo (3)
Captain Britain (Brian Braddock) (3)
Captain Britain (Elizabeth Braddock) (6)
Cypher (3)
Gloriana (Meggan Braddock) (3)
Gorgon (Tomi Shishido) (2)
Krakoa (8)
Moira MacTaggert (3)
Magik (Illyana Rasputina) (4)
Wolverine (Logan/James Howlett) (5)
X-Men (10)

Overall, I thought it was well-done, but I was disappointed that apart from Broo it was all updates for previous entries, and only twelve entries total. But that's just me.

I can understand being disappointed by mostly updated entries and relatively little in the way of completely all-new material, but I think handbook fans need to keep some things in mind.  (And I speak as a fellow fan, and not on behalf of anyone involved with the production of the handbooks.)

1.  Ever since the end of the hardcover series ten years ago, the X-Men corner of Marvel is the largest ongoing and active corner that has nonetheless seen very little dedicated handbook coverage even as Handbook content became more sporadic.  Outside of the Phoenix Force Handbook (which itself had a broad reach), the most X-related content could be found in the back of a handful of X-centric trades, and most of THAT was just new and fully updated versions of previous entries, such as on Rogue, Legion, Blindfold, or Cable.  I think the only brand-new entries were on Loa, Indra, the Neo, and the Children of the Vault.  Meanwhile, thanks to the movies, Avengers-related content received the bulk of attention.

2.  The new handbook format, with its larger physical page-space requirements for both art and text, has meant fewer actual entries per handbook ever since it was introduced in 2016's All-New All-Different handbook.  We got spoiled by handbooks with 30-40 entries in the old format; now we've been averaging around 20 enties.  Also, no more half-page entries.

3.  Also with the newer format has