To err is human and so, despite rampant rumours I’m robotic, I can prove my humanity every now and then! Today will be a collection of quick corrections or elaborations on previous posts, in no particular order.
This first correction is actually really embarrassing.
Growing up I pawed over my copy of 2003’s Marvel Encyclopedia Vol. 4:
Spider-Man so much many of the pages have come out. So, I have no excuse
for misattributed the reveal of the Rhino’s real name of Aleksei
Mikhailovich Sytsevich to The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe:
Hulk 2004! This name was likely conceived by members of the www.spiderfan.org who contributed profiles,
with my best guess being Mike
Fichera who worked on the Rhino’s
profile for that website and gets a mention in the ‘thanks’ for the Encyclopedia.
Another slightly humiliating error on my part as it’s another
I should have caught relatively easily. I spent the entirety of my post about Aunt
May trying to differentiate between the various ‘May’s’ present
in some stories when I could have simply called Peter’s
aunt by her full first name ‘Maybelle,’ which we learned back in 1997
in Amazing Spider-Man #-1 written by none other than MC2
co-creator Tom Defalco himself!
In Hank Pym’s profile post I stated he was first
referenced and seen in flashback in A-Next #2. While he does make his
first on-panel appearance in A-Next #2, he’s mentioned first briefly in A-Next
#1 in an exchange between Scott and Cassie Lang.
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As I re-visit previous posts or discover new information, I’ll
likely put together another ‘Oops’ post. Let me know if you have come across
any mistakes I’ve made!
Until I attain my perfect form after absorbing two sibling
cyborgs, I remain
frogoat
Ah the Marvel Encyclopedias of the early 2000s. Still have them and yeah still enjoy them especially the Spider-Man volume.
ReplyDeleteYeah I still remember how the main Spider-Man titles of the time would avoid any acknowledgements of the Clone Saga or events tied to with the first Marvel Encyclopedia following suit as noted by Norman Osborn's history.
And then we rejoiced when Spider-Man's volume covered anything up to the present including stuff like Ben Reilly, Kaine, Alison Mongrain and young May both 616 and 982.
Good times.
I still have my copy on my shelf too. A fantastic introduction to the Spidey mythos. Thanks for commenting!
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