Addendums and Errata (May 2024)

 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.

 

Rhino in the MC2

 

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.

 

Aunt May in the MC2

 

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!

 

Hank Pym in the MC2

 

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.

 

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

 

Wild Thing Handbook Correction

I'd like to preface this little post by saying I love the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe series and have a lot of respect for the hard work and dedication of the people who work on it's various entries. I'm also aware that there are time and space constraints and that no one is infallible and errors sometimes slip by unnoticed. So, with all that said, here's a really pointless correction I'd like to make.

So, in All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #12 (published in 2006) Wild Thing received a full-page entry. Now, I could point out the obvious error in the entry where Rina's place of birth is listed as 'Howlett Bay, Canada' but that's clearly a typo and is later corrected to 'Hudson Bay, Canada' when the entry was reprinted in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z Vol. 13 (published in 2010). Here's the original entry for reference:

What's not corrected in the updated entry is the mention of Colin Brewster's familial relationship to Cameron Bryce-Jones. Anyone who's read my Bryce-Jones Family Tree post will know that I did not include Colin as a member of that family. Yet, there it is in black and white:

If Colin and Cameron were related it would make the entire Wild Thing series very awkward, considering Cameron acted like the two were dating. So what gives? I believe the writer of Wild Thing's entry misinterpreted this scene from Wild Thing #5 where Rina questions Colin about his relationship with Cameron:

There you have it, Colin and Cameron are not related but have known one another since they were children and their parents are all friends. Oh, and the two aren't dating either, Rina! Hopefully that clears that matter up.

Until I find something more important to nitpick, I remain

frogoat