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Andy E. Nystrom
Jan 25, 2011, 06:49 pm


2nd last List of Changes in Hardcovers

Introduction: 1-page entry not carried over

For the core section:

Background now History. Natural Abilities and Powers, Weapons, & Minions reworked as Abilities/Accessories. Most other categories removed and regular handbook categories (Vital Statistics, Physical Statistics, Power Grid --Power Numbers if ½-pagers-- for individuals) added. Symbols removed from main illo where applicable

Aegis & Tenebrous
Hardcover Volume: 9
Now Listed As: Proemial Gods
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text Changes: Known Members, Base of Operations, First Appearance added. History completely rewritten/expanded.
Graphic Changes: Old illos removed. 3 new captioned illos

Annihilus
Hardcover Volume: 1
Page Count: Increased from 1 to 3
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely rewritten/expanded.
Graphic Changes: Main illo less cropped. Old secondary illos removed. 3 new secondary illos (2 captioned)

Baroness S’Bak
Hardcover Volume: 2
Page Count: Reduced from 1 to ½
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely rewritten.
Graphic Changes: Background removed from main illo; 3 secondary illos removed, 1 cropped

Blastaar
Hardcover Volume: 2
Page Count: Increased from 1 to 2
Text Changes: History greatly rewritten. Abilities/Accessories paragraph rewritten somewhat with two new paragraphs.
Graphic Changes: 3 secondary illos removed, 1 less cropped, 1 added

Cammi
Hardcover Volume: 2
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely rewritten.
Graphic Changes: Background and foreground removed from main illo, leaving just Cammi himself; secondary illos removed

Death
Hardcover Volume: 3
Page Count: Increased from 1 to 2
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely revised and expanded.
Graphic Changes: One secondary illo removed, 2 partly cropped but partly de-cropped, 1 de-cropped

Devos the Devastator
Hardcover Volume: 3
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text Changes: History mostly revised and expanded. Abilities/Accessories complete revised and expanded.
Graphic Changes: Background removed from main illo. 1 secondary illo cropped, 3 removed.

Drax the Destroyer
Hardcover Volume: 3
Now Listed as: Drax
Page Count: Increased from 1 to 2
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely revised and expanded.
Graphic Changes: Main illo replaced with new one. 1 secondary illo cropped, 1 de-cropped, 2 removed.

Eradica, Extermina & Extirpia
Hardcover Volume: 1
Now Listed As: Annihilus’ Queens
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely rewritten/expanded.
Graphic Changes: Old illos cropped (particularly Eradica) and captioned. Secondary illos removed

Fallen One
Hardcover Volume: 4
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text Changes: 1st History paragraph split in 2 (second paragraph somewhat rewritten); 2 sentences added to end of 2nd paragraph. Abilities/Accessories revised/expanded.
Graphic Changes: Main illo background removed but body no longer cropped; one secondary illos less cropped; other 3 secondary illos removed

Firelord
Hardcover Volume: 4
Page Count: Increased from 1 to 2
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories greatly revised/expanded.
Graphic Changes: Main illo background removed but body/staff no longer cropped; one secondary illo less cropped; other 3 secondary illos removed, new secondary illo added.

Gabriel the Air-Walker
Hardcover Volume: 4
Page Count: Increased from 1 to 2
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely revised/expanded.
Graphic Changes: Old illos removed; new main illo and 4 new secondary illos (3 captioned)

Galactus
Hardcover Volume: 4
Page Count: Increased from 1 to 5
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely revised/expanded.
Graphic Changes: One secondary illo less cropped/background removed/captioned; other old illos removed; classic Handbook main illo and 4 captioned secondary illos added, followed by 20 headshots of how Galactus is viewed by various races.

Gamora
Hardcover Volume: 4
Page Count: Increased from 1 to 2
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely revised/expanded.
Graphic Changes: Background removed from main illo; secondary illos removed, replaced with 2 new ones (1 captioned)

Glorian
Hardcover Volume: 4
Page Count: Increased from 1 to 2
Text Changes: History completely revised/expanded. Abilities/Accessories greatly revised/expanded.
Graphic Changes: Background/use of power removed from main illo; classic Handbook illo no longer cropped; other secondary illos removed, replaced with 2 new ones (1 captioned).

Korath the Pursuer
Hardcover Volume: 6
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely rewritten/expanded.
Graphic Changes: Background removed from main illo, which is no longer cropped. Old secondary illos removed; 3 new ones (2 captioned).

Moondragon
Hardcover Volume: 7
Page Count: Increased from 1 to 3
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely rewritten/expanded.
Graphic Changes: Old secondary illos removed, replaced with 3 new ones.

Morg
Hardcover Volume: 7
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely rewritten/the former expanded.
Graphic Changes: Secondary illos removed.

Nebula
Hardcover Volume: 8
Page Count: Increased from 1 to 2
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely rewritten.
Graphic Changes: New main illo (old now secondary); old secondary illos removed; 1 new secondary illo

Tana Nile
Hardcover Volume: 11
Page Count: Increased from 1 to 2
Text Changes: History completely rewritten/expanded. Abilities/Accessories most revised/expanded
Graphic Changes: Background removed from main illo; old secondary illos removed; 5 new secondary illos (1 captioned)

Nova
Hardcover Volume: 8
Now Listed As: Nova (Rider)
Page Count: Increased from 1 to 4
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely rewritten/expanded.
Graphic Changes: Old secondary illos removed; 8 new secondary illos (4 captioned)

Omega Core
Hardcover Volume: 8
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text Changes: Former Members added. Planet of Operations reworked as Base of Operations and slightly revised. History completely rewritten.
Graphic Changes: Main illo now captioned. Secondary illo added. One headshot removed, the other 3 now captioned.

Paibok the Power-Skrull
Hardcover Volume: 8
Now Listed As: Paibok
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely rewritten.
Graphic Changes: New main illo (old now secondary); old secondary illos removed; 1 new secondary illo

Phyla-Vell
Hardcover Volume: 9
Page Count: Increased from 1 to 2
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely rewritten.
Graphic Changes: Old illos removed; new captioned main illo and 3 new secondary illos (2 captioned)

Praxogora
Hardcover Volume: 9
Page Count: Reduced from 1 to ½
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely rewritten.
Graphic Changes: Secondary illos removed.

Preak
Hardcover Volume: 9
Page Count: Reduced from 1 to ½
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely rewritten.
Graphic Changes: Secondary illos removed.

Quasar
Hardcover Volume: 9
Page Count: Increased from 1 to 4
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely rewritten/expanded.
Graphic Changes: Old main illo now secondary. Old secondary illos removed; 7 new secondary illos (3 captioned)

Ravenous
Hardcover Volume: 9
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely rewritten.
Graphic Changes: Old illos removed; new main illo and captioned secondary illo

Red Shift
Hardcover Volume: 9
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text Changes: History mostly revised/expanded (some old text still present). Abilities/Accessories greatly revised/expanded.
Graphic Changes: Old main illo now secondary and less cropped; one of the secondary illos now main illo and also less cropped (background removed), other 3 removed.

R’Kin
Hardcover Volume: 9
Page Count: Reduced from 1 to ½
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely rewritten.
Graphic Changes: Main illo reversed and background removed but less cropped. Secondary illos removed.

Ronan the Accuser
Hardcover Volume: 9
Page Count: Increased from 1 to 3
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely rewritten/expanded.
Graphic Changes: Old illos removed; new main illo and 3 new secondary illos

Admiral Salo
Hardcover Volume: 11
Now Listed As: Salo
Page Count: Reduced from 1 to ½
Text Changes: History completely rewritten/abridged. Abilities/Accessories mostly revised/abridged
Graphic Changes: Old illos removed; new only illo

Silver Surfer
Hardcover Volume: 10
Page Count: Increased from 1 to 4
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely rewritten/expanded.
Graphic Changes: Old illos removed; new main illo and 7 new secondary illos (4 captioned)

Skreet
Hardcover Volume: 10
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text Changes: History considerably revised/expanded. Abilities/Accessories somewhat revised
Graphic Changes: Old illos removed; new main illo and 2 new secondary illos

Spirit
Hardcover Volume: 11
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text Changes: History greatly revised/expanded. Abilities/Accessories somewhat revised
Graphic Changes: New main illo (old one removed); 3 secondary illos removed, 1 cropped

Stardust
Hardcover Volume: 11
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely rewritten
Graphic Changes: New main illo (old one now differently cropped as secondary illo); secondary illos removed

Star-Lord (Quill)
Hardcover Volume: 11
Page Count: Increased from 1 to 3
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely rewritten/expanded.
Graphic Changes: Old illos removed; new main illo and 7 new secondary illos (3 captioned)

Stellaris
Hardcover Volume: 11
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text Changes: History moistly revised/expanded. Abilities/Accessories greatly revised
Graphic Changes: Main illo less cropped/background removed; old secondary illos removed; new secondary illo

Kl’rt the Super-Skrull
Hardcover Volume: 11
Now Listed As: Super-Skrull
Page Count: Increased from 1 to 4
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely rewritten/expanded.
Graphic Changes: Main illo less cropped; Old secondary illos removed; 8 new secondary illos (2 sharing caption and 4 more captioned)

Talos the Untamed
Hardcover Volume: 11
Now Listed As: Talos
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories mostly revised/expanded.
Graphic Changes: Main illo now secondary. One secondary illo less cropped/background removed to make it the new main illo; other secondary illos removed

Terrax the Tamer
Hardcover Volume: 11
Page Count: Increased from 1 to 2
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely rewritten/expanded.
Graphic Changes: Old illos removed; new main illo and 3 new secondary illos

Thanos
Hardcover Volume: 12
Page Count: Increased from 1 to 5
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely rewritten/expanded.
Graphic Changes: Main illo slightly less cropped/background removed. Old secondary illos removed; 9 new secondary illos (4 captioned)

Zarek
Hardcover Volume: 14
Page Count: Unchanged at 1
Text Changes: History and Abilities/Accessories completely rewritten/the former expanded.
Graphic Changes: Main illo less cropped; old secondary illos removed; 2 new captioned secondary illos

Alien Races section: Only races that had appeared in other books at the time carried over. Most stats removed beyond Average Height (now Height – in some cases it’s Average Length that’s now Length), Eyes and Hair (note that not all races have the Hair stat in the Files book). While an argument could be made that Notes are now History or Traits, they’re not really written the same (if you think they are, treat as “completely rewritten/expanded”). Vital Statistics (Known Members, Base of Operations, First Appearance), Traits, Weight, History added. Eyes now colour instead of number. The “Alien Races:” section of entry name removed (e.g. Alien Races: Badoon is now “Badoon”)

Alien Races: Badoon
Hardcover Volume: 1
Page Count: Increased from ¼ to 2
Additional Text Changes: Hair revised.
Graphic Changes: New main illo (old illo removed). 5 new captioned secondary illos

Alien Races: Ballurians: ¼ page entry not carried over

Alien Races: Brood
Hardcover Volume: 2
Page Count: Increased from ¼ to 2
Additional Text Changes: None. Note that Skin is carried over but there is no Hair category even in the hardcover
Graphic Changes: New main illo (old illo removed). 3 new captioned secondary illos

Alien Races: Centaurians: ¼ page entry not carried over
Races: Korbinites: ¼ page entry not carried over

Alien Races: Kree
Hardcover Volume: 6
Page Count: Increased from ¼ to 5
Additional Text Changes: Height, Eyes, Hair not carried over.
Graphic Changes: Old illo less cropped. 5 new captioned secondary illos (one has five more captioned secondary illos imbedded) including classic Eliot R. Brown specs. 48 new headshots with occupations and first appearances

Alien Races: Luphomoids: ¼ page entry not carried over
Alien Races: Rigellians: ¼ page entry not carried over

Alien Races: Shi’ar
Hardcover Volume: 10
Page Count: Increased from ¼ to 5
Additional Text Changes: Height, Eyes, Skin revised; this entry only number of eyes still included; Hair not carried over.
Graphic Changes: Old illo less cropped/background removed, now secondary illo; new main illo and 6 new captioned secondary illos. 48 new headshots with occupations and first appearances

Alien Races: Skrull
Hardcover Volume: 10
Now Listed As: Skrulls {plural}
Page Count: Increased from ¼ to 5
Additional Text Changes: Height, Eyes, Hair not carried over.
Graphic Changes: Old illo less cropped, now secondary illo; new main illo and 5 new secondary illos (3 captioned). 48 new headshots with occupations and first appearances

Alien Races: Spartoi: ¼ page entry not carried over
Alien Races: Terrans: ¼ page entry not carried over

Alien Races: Titans [Eternals of Titan]
Hardcover Volume: 4
Now Listed As: Eternals
Page Count: Increased from ¼ to 4
Additional Text Changes: Height, Eyes, Hair not carried over.
Graphic Changes: Old illo removed. 2 new illos (one captioned). 45 new headshots with occupations and first appearances

Alien Races: Xandarians: ¼ page entry not carried over
Alien Races: Zenn-Lavians: ¼ page entry not carried over
Alien Races: Zen-Whoberis: ¼ page entry not carried over


Eduardo M.
Jan 25, 2011, 08:07 pm
Rigelians may have missed the Hardcovers but they did get an entry in 2010 in A-Z Update #3


Andy E. Nystrom
Jan 25, 2011, 08:17 pm 

Eduardo M. wrote:

Rigelians may have missed the Hardcovers but they did get an entry in 2010 in A-Z Update #3

True enough. At some point down the road I might tackle characters from this book, Marvel Monsters, etc who had entries in the newest Update books. For now I'm just tackling the hardcovers but that's certainly something to consider in the future.


bigvis497
Jan 25, 2011, 10:39 pm

Would you count the Centurions in this group? They got an Annihilation Files entry in one of the sattelite books, I think it was Annihilation Nova #2. There were quite a few profiles in those prologue mini-series done in the exact same style as the Nova Corps Files book. I think Centurions was the only "exclusive" profile to make it to the hardcovers.


Roger Ott
Jan 25, 2011, 10:48 pm

Luphomoids got an entry in HC vol. 6


Andy E. Nystrom
Jan 27, 2011, 11:19 am 

Roger Ott wrote:

Luphomoids got an entry in HC vol. 6

Sorry about that!

Alien Races: Luphomoids
Hardcover Volume: 6
Page Count: Increased from ¼ to 1
Additional Text Changes: Skin rather than Hair carried over. Height, Eyes, Hair revised.
Graphic Changes: Old illo less cropped, now captioned; new captioned secondary illo