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Andy E. Nystrom wrote:
When creating character or index profiles have there been times when two stories contradict each other (beyond different clothing/dialogue) but can't been explained away by alternate realities/successor characters or other simple means, and you've just had to gloss over the contradiction to avoid a really complicated explanation?
I think that might have happened with Brother Voodoo and the death of one of his supporting characters.
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Given that when Barry Windsor-Smith drew Conan, he gave him the same look that he previously did Starr the Slayer, could Marvel still use Starr with the same look, since Marvel published the Starr story first?
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Oh, hello! Anybody still here? Thought of another question: the most recent "full set" of Handbooks, the A-Z from 2008-2010 (wow, 15 years old already) later got a softcover edition in 2012, which I've heard has some differences from the hardcovers. Could you give me a run-down on what those are, or just "cliff notes" if it's a whole lot?
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The softcovers only reprinted the first 5 volumes of the hardcovers before the series was cancelled. The major difference is that each softcover volume adds 16 pages of profile updates in the back. Other changes are pretty minor. RVCousin made a list of the changes in Vol. 1, and changes in the other 4 volumes are similar.
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The softcovers only reprinted the first 5 volumes of the hardcovers before the series was cancelled. The major difference is that each softcover volume adds 16 pages of profile updates in the back. Other changes are pretty minor. RVCousin made a list of the changes in Vol. 1, and changes in the other 4 volumes are similar.
Thanks! Thought of another question too - what's the deal with the two characters called Venus? For some reason I always thought that the Golden Age one was or was later retconned to be a Siren impersonating Aphrodite, but according to the Handbooks the Golden Age one IS Aphrodite herself and the Siren first appeared in 2005.
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Thanks! Thought of another question too - what's the deal with the two characters called Venus? For some reason I always thought that the Golden Age one was or was later retconned to be a Siren impersonating Aphrodite, but according to the Handbooks the Golden Age one IS Aphrodite herself and the Siren first appeared in 2005.
Good question..I wonder if this is an instance where some of Venus' earliest appearances *could* be the siren but Agents of Atlas #1 was the first *confirmed* appearance of her. It might simply be, since we know that some appearances of Venus are Aphrodite, that until a particular story is explicitly retconned, it has to be assumed to be the goddess. Just as Angela (Asgardian)'s first appearance was listed as her Marvel debut since it hasn't been confirmed if her pre-Marvel appearances are canon. But that's just a guess on my part.
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