4. Correct. Spirit of '76 actually died as Cap, while the Patriot briefly used the identity one last time a little while before dying of cancer, confirming that to be his last costumed identity.
10. Correct. skippcomet was basically right about the Bibliography, but Significant Issues was the actual term used.
 

One quick question:
Which characters appear twice on the covers of the Deluxe run? Note that this is not a reference to characters able to duplicate themselves, such as Multiple Man.

All questions relate to the Premiere hardcover series, though of course the hardcovers tie into other handbooks. As shorthand, when I discussed profiles being brought over from earlier handbooks, it’s assumed there were likely revisions, so I don’t necessarily mean they were brought over untouched. I came up with 16 questions. So next time I screw up a non-themed trivia set, the replacement question has already been asked. ;)

1. Which team name, derived from three different earlier Handbooks, thus resulted in three team entries? So not a case of an existing team name being split in three, but three profiles from an earlier handbooks all making it in to the hardcover?
2. This entry, when brought to the hardcovers, was split into four profiles, exactly one of which is a four-pager.
3. When this Marvel Pets entry was brought to the hardcovers, it was expanded to a full page, with lots of headshots added.
4. This profile in volume 2 was actually reduced in size when moved over to the hardcovers.
5. While most entries whose names began with a number (as opposed to a word that spells out a number) were in volume 1, which entry was an exception to this?
6. Which was the first letter not to have any ½-pagers?
7. Members of which team were switched from code names to real names for their hardcover profiles?
8. What did the three 21st century Handbooks that did not make it into the hardcovers despite being published before the hardcovers have in common?
9. For one Handbook where about half the book made it into the hardcover, what did most (not all) the profiles that made it over have in common?
10. Which book published while the hardcovers were in progress  required its entries to be reformatted to proper Handbook format before appearing in the hardcovers?
11. Which early team profile was derived from a single paragraph from a pre-hardcover profile?
12. For which character was an entry devoted to their costumes simply folded into the character’s own profile when moved to the hardcovers?
13. If you remove the dust jackets, what colour is the letting on the cover for most volumes?
14. For what entry was an entire page from the Deluxe Edition turned into an entire page in the hardcovers?
15. Under which of his many code names (or real name) can you find a profile for Henry Pym?
16. In one case two characters pre-hardcover were listed under the same name even though it was incorrect for one of them, but this was corrected when they were split off into separate entries for the hardcovers. Which two characters?
 

Andy E. Nystrom wrote:

Loki wrote:

One quick question:
Which characters appear twice on the covers of the Deluxe run? Note that this is not a reference to characters able to duplicate themselves, such as Multiple Man.

Hmm, playing fair and going by memory and not actually looking at the covers, I think the Beast was one of them. I know why characters would be on two covers, it's just hard to visualize specific characters from memory.

Beast is, indeed, one of them.

Andy E. Nystrom wrote:

All questions relate to the Premiere hardcover series, though of course the hardcovers tie into other handbooks. As shorthand, when I discussed profiles being brought over from earlier handbooks, it’s assumed there were likely revisions, so I don’t necessarily mean they were brought over untouched. I came up with 16 questions. So next time I screw up a non-themed trivia set, the replacement question has already been asked. ;)

1. Which team name, derived from three different earlier Handbooks, thus resulted in three team entries? So not a case of an existing team name being split in three, but three profiles from an earlier handbooks all making it in to the hardcover?
2. This entry, when brought to the hardcovers, was split into four profiles, exactly one of which is a four-pager.
3. When this Marvel Pets entry was brought to the hardcovers, it was expanded to a full page, with lots of headshots added.
5. While most entries whose names began with a number (as opposed to a word that spells out a number) were in volume 1, which entry was an exception to this?
6. Which was the first letter not to have any ½-pagers?
7. Members of which team were switched from code names to real names for their hardcover profiles?
9. For one Handbook where about half the book made it into the hardcover, what did most (not all) the profiles that made it over have in common?
11. Which early team profile was derived from a single paragraph from a pre-hardcover profile?
12. For which character was an entry devoted to their costumes simply folded into the character’s own profile when moved to the hardcovers?
 

1. Omega Flight?
2. Hyperion
3. Ant-Man's Ants
5. 8-Ball
6. Q
7. The Runaways (not to be confused with the band of the same name)
9. They were entries on members of the multiverse-hopping Exiles
11. Battle-Axis
12. Spider-Man (Parker-616)

#14 is bit confusing.  Why would turning "an entire page from the Deluxe Edition...into an entire page in the hardcovers" be unusual?

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Andy E. Nystrom wrote:

11. Which early team profile was derived from a single paragraph from a pre-hardcover profile?
 

Ah, I think I know which entry you mean. However, if it is the entry that I think it is, I wrote it, so I don't think it is fair for me to answer this one. I'll wait until the correct answer is given to confirm.

Last call for my questions. Here's what's left on the board:
1. Which team name, derived from three different earlier Handbooks, thus resulted in three team entries? So not a case of an existing team name being split in three, but three profiles from an earlier handbooks all making it in to the hardcover?
4. This profile in volume 2 was actually reduced in size when moved over to the hardcovers.
5. While most entries whose names began with a number (as opposed to a word that spells out a number) were in volume 1, which entry was an exception to this? [Aside from 8-Ball]
11. Which early team profile was derived from a single paragraph from a pre-hardcover profile?
13. If you remove the dust jackets, what colour is the letting on the cover for most volumes?
14. For what entry was an entire page from the Deluxe Edition turned into an entire page in the hardcovers?
16. In one case two characters pre-hardcover were listed under the same name even though it was incorrect for one of them, but this was corrected when they were split off into separate entries for the hardcovers. Which two characters?

Andy E. Nystrom wrote:

I still won't cheat with Loki's question by looking at the covers, but I know the answers all involve limbs overlapping between the right side of the front cover for one issue and the left side of the following issue. Sometimes the limbs act as a sneak peak of who's to come next issue, other times they act as a reminder of who was in the previous issue. So essentially #1-15 joined together make up one extremely wide poster. With the first series the images eventually went back to the left below an earlier issue, but with Deluxe it was always across.

Nope, it's not the limbs - it's full on appearing twice. And since time is up, the answer is: Beast, Cyclops, Marvel Girl and Iceman. 
Here's Beast

Here's Cyclops

Iceman

and Marvel Girl
And here are all four again, together as X-Factor

No Angel. Not sure without checking if he was dead at the time.

Andy E. Nystrom wrote:

That my guess being correct was just a coincidence since you weren't counting limbs; I had forgotten about X-Factor but had recalled seeing Beast's foot on the cover of #1. I just checked the entry and it was before the plane explosion. Most likely it was a space thing that caused him to be omitted.
 

Actually, I just noticed that he's on the cover with X-Factor - his wings are visible at the top, where the page overlaps with #1 and the letter A. So that might be the reason - it's weird enough to have the others repeated, but for Angel to appear twice on the same cover?!?

In order to make it faster for me to come up with questions from memory, I'm including Index questions this time. Which of course means that anyone else is also free to ask index questions.

1. What is Fight Man’s page count in the hardcovers?
2. In which handbook did the amnesiac Skrull Captain Marvel first get a profile?
3. The back pages of which series are generally considered to be where the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe first started.
4. The First Appearance listing for one character in the most recent (five issue) Update series overlooked a single panel appearance decades earlier. Which character?
5. Which major character in the 2008 Iron Man movie didn’t get a profile until the Incredible Hulk/Iron Man 2 Guidebook?
6. Who was most prominent in the front cover to Master Edition #1?
7. Who was the first Superman analogue to get a profile in a Marvel Handbook?
8. A future Thor first got a full profile in Update ’89 under what name?
9. Under what name was the Red She-Hulk first profiled in a Handbook in any sort of way?
10. Which character described as deceased in their ¼-page Squadron Supreme sub-entry subsequently turned up alive?
11. What was the most recent Index trade devoted to?
12. Who wrote the earliest Index titles published by Marvel?
13. Which villain who shares the same code name as heroes first got an entry in the hardcovers? Three heroes with the same name have also gotten Handbook profiles but no other villains.
14. Which Eternal got an entry in Golden Age 2004 and under what name?
15. Which Baghdad analogue got an Appendix entry in Marvel Atlas #2?
 

For which character who has an Index tpb devoted to him were a significant number of his solo stories actually covered in another character's Index trade, and who is that second character?
 

Where can the largest entry for Midtown High School be found?

zuckyd1 wrote:

For which character who has an Index tpb devoted to him were a significant number of his solo stories actually covered in another character's Index trade, and who is that second character?
 

Many of Captain America's adventures were in the Iron Man trade under Tales of Suspense.

zuckyd1 wrote:

What reference work contained a section titled "Alternate Earths Appendix"?

Hmm, while a number of reference works have such an Appendix, I think it was the Fantastic Four Encyclopedia that used that specific title.
 

Loki wrote:

Aquarian.
 

Correct. Easy to overlook him because his powers as Aquarian are a bit different, but as Wundarr he was definitely a Superman analogue in terms of powers, and of course his Superman-like origin hasn't changed.
 

Andy E. Nystrom wrote:

zuckyd1 wrote:

8. Jane Kincaid?

8. Very close, just need to tweak the answer a little.

Jane Foster Kincaid?