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Andy E. Nystrom

Jan 29, 2010, 12:13 am

I swear I'm not actually trying to start a bunch of new threads on older Handbooks. It's just that the older Handbooks that happened to be completely covered now by the hardcovers also happen to be ones with no prior listings (in constrast Teams 2005 does have an existing thread but there's still entries that haven't migrated over yet to the hardcovers). This was one of the more backlogged books, so everyone from Mister Fear-on is newly looked at.

Daredevil 2004 Entries – List of Changes in the Hardcovers

All: Known Aliases now called Aliases. Marital Status and Distinguishing Features removed; Powers & Abilities and Paraphernalia merged as Abilities/Accessories. Significant Issues info from back of book removed.

Black Widow
Hardcover Volume: 1
Now Listed As: Black Widow (Romanova)
Page Count: Increased from 3 to 4
Text Changes: Vital Statistics and Abilities/Accessories expanded, History revised.
Graphic Changes: Both illos removed; new main illo and 5 new secondary illos

Bullseye
Hardcover Volume: 2
Page Count: Increased from 2 to 3
Text Changes: Vital statistics revised/expanded. History and Abilities/Accessories considerably revised/expanded. Weight revised.
Graphic Changes: 7 new secondary illos (1 captioned).

Daredevil
Hardcover Volume: 3
Page Count: Increased from 5 to 6
Text Changes: Vital Statistics revised. History: 3rd and 4th paragraphs merged; starting from paragraph reading “Foggy hired…” changes become a lot more extensive, though a lot of old material still present. Last two pages of new History text all new, but all new text shows up throughout. Abilities/Accessories also interweaves a lot of old and new text. Strength decreased, Energy Projection on Power Grid revised.
Graphic Changes: Old Matt Murdock illo removed, replaced with new one and 9 other new secondary illos (all captioned, though 2 share the caption). The Eliot R. Brown-drawn Daredevil’s Billy Club entry from #15 of original series added.

Milla Donovan
Hardcover Volume: 3
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text Changes: Vital Statistics revised. History completely revised. Abilities/Accessories a little reduced. Speed on Power Grid revised.
Graphic Changes: New secondary illo.

Echo
Hardcover Volume: 3
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text Changes: Vital Statistics revised. Final History paragraph revised and expanded.
Graphic Changes: New captioned secondary illo.

Vanessa Fisk
Hardcover Volume: 4
Page Count: Unchanged at 2
Text Changes: Last 2 sentences of History removed, but new large final paragraph added. Fighting Skills on Power Grid revised.
Graphic Changes: None.

Gladiator
Hardcover Volume: 4
Page Count: Increased from 2 to 3
Text Changes: Vital Statistics a bit revised. History completely revised/expanded. Abilities/Accessories revised.
Graphic Changes: Original illo less cropped. 3 new secondary illos (1 captioned).

Hand
Hardcover Volume: 5
Page Count: Increased from 1 to 4
Text Changes: Members and Base of Operations added. History considerably revised and expanded (some portions of original text still intact)
Graphic Changes: Old illos removed. New main illo plus two captioned secondary illos and 54 Headshots with First Appearances.

Jessica Jones
Hardcover Volume: 6
Page Count: Unchanged at 2
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories revised/expanded (the former greatly).
Graphic Changes: Old illos removed; new main illo and 2 captioned secondary illos.

Kingpin
Hardcover Volume: 6
Page Count: Increased from 3 to 4
Text Changes: Vital Statistics revised. History greatly revised/expanded, though a lot of the old text still present as well. 3rd and 4th Abilities/Accessories paragraphs revised/expanded.
Graphic Changes: 4 new secondary illos

Mister Fear
Split into: Machinesmith, Mister Fear (Cranston), Mister Fear (Fagan), Mister Fear (Drago)
Hardcover Volume: 6 Machinesmith, 7 Mister Fear (Cranston/Fagan), 8 Mister Fear (Drago)
Page Count: originally 2; now 2 Machinesmith, 2 Mister Fear (Cranston), 1 Mister Fear (Fagan), ½ Mister Fear (Drago)
Text Changes: All: Vital Statistics revised; History and Abilities/Accessories completely rewritten. Machinesmith: Physical Statistics a bit revised, Power Grid completely revised. Mister Fear (Cranston): Intelligence on Power Grid revised. Mister Fear (Fagan): Hair revised. Energy Projection on Power Grid revised. Mister Fear (Drago): Intelligence, Energy Projection, Fighting Skills on Power Numbers (formerly Power Grid) revised
Graphic Changes: Old illo only used for Mister Fear (Drago); Machinesmith; new main illo and four new secondary illos (2 captioned). Mister Fear (Cranston): new main illo and 6 new secondary illos (1 captioned). Mister Fear (Fagan): new main illo and new secondary illo. Mister Fear (Drago): New secondary illo

Foggy Nelson
Hardcover Volume: 8
Page Count: unchanged at 2
Text Changes: Vital Statistics revised. History mostly revised/expanded. Abilities/Accessories a little revised/expanded
Graphic Changes: Old illo removed; new main illo and 2 new secondary illos

Owl
Hardcover Volume: 8
Page Count: unchanged at 2
Text Changes: Occupation, Citizenship, Group Affiliation revised. History mostly revised/expanded. Abilities/Accessories completely revised/expanded
Graphic Changes: 5 new secondary illos

Karen Page
Hardcover Volume: 8
Page Count: unchanged at 2
Text Changes: Known Relatives and Education revised. History mostly revised/expanded. Abilities/Accessories rewritten. Fighting Skills on Power Grid revised.
Graphic Changes: old main illo removed, replaced with new one

Purple Man
Hardcover Volume: 9
Page Count: unchanged at 2
Text Changes: Group Affiliation revised. Older History paragraphs a little revised, with paragraphs merged; new final paragraph. Abilities/Accessories slightly revised. Energy Projection on Power Grid revised.
Graphic Changes: 3 new secondary illos (1 captioned)

Sammy Silke
Hardcover Volume: 10
Page Count: unchanged at 1
Text Changes: Vital Statistics revised. History almost completely rewritten. Abilities/Accessories a little expanded.
Graphic Changes: None

Stick
Hardcover Volume: 11
Page Count: unchanged at 2
Text Changes: Aliases revised; Group Affiliation tweaked. History and Abilities/Accessories completely rewritten. Speed and Durability on Power Grid revised.
Graphic Changes: 5 new secondary illos (2 captioned)

Stilt-Man
Hardcover Volume: 11
Page Count: unchanged at 2
Text Changes: Vital Statistics revised. History completely rewritten. Abilities/Accessories greatly revised. Hair revised. Intelligence, Durability, Fighting Skills on Power Grid revised.
Graphic Changes: main illo now secondary; new main illo plus 3 new secondary illos (1 captioned)

Turk
Hardcover Volume: 12
Page Count: unchanged at 1
Text Changes: Identity, Known Relatives, Group Affiliation revised. History mostly revised/expanded. Abilities/Accessories and Power Grid revised.
Graphic Changes: two new secondary illos

Typhoid
Hardcover Volume: 12
Page Count: increased from 2 to 3
Text Changes: Vital Statistics revised/expanded. History completely rewritten. Abilities/Accessories greatly revised. Energy Projeciton on Power Grid revised.
Graphic Changes: 6 new secondary illos (3 captioned)

Ben Urich
Hardcover Volume: 12
Page Count: unchanged at 2
Text Changes: Vital Statistics revised. History completely rewritten. Abilities/Accessories a little revised. Intelligence and Fighting Skills on Power Grid revised.
Graphic Changes: New secondary illo




Sidney Osinga

Jan 29, 2010, 12:39 am

You labeled Stick as Sammy Silke.




Eduardo M.

Jan 29, 2010, 08:53 am

The page count for the Hand actually went up to 4.




Andy E. Nystrom

Jan 29, 2010, 11:40 am

Thanks for the corrections thus far. I changed the format for readability and i suspect that will make errors more visible too.  A shame you can't edit pots after a certain amount of time. Will wait until enough corrections occur or eough time passes, then repost a more accurate version (ditto Alnerate Universes and any other such thread). Luckily I can edit posts on my blog right away so I'll update those versions of these posts ASAP.




Andy E. Nystrom

Oct 29, 2013, 10:27 pm


I cleaned up the above.