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1 Overview 1960s Avengers, Spider-Man variant costumes, X-Men's 1st & 2nd team
Heroes Elektra's assassin abilities, Red Hulk, Silver Fox, Weapon X, Wolverine, Wolverine's mutant powers²
Villains Lizard / Locations Baxter Building² / Tech Infinity Gauntlet / Real Marvel Fantastic Four's 1st appearance
(includes folder) 2 Overview 1970s Avengers, Spider-Man, Spider-Man's genetics², Gwen Stacy, Skrulls, Symbiote, X-Men's 3rd team & New Mutants
Heroes Rogue's mutant powers, Winter Soldier, Wolverine's variant costumes
Villains Dormammu / Locations - / Tech Avengers Quinjet² / Real Marvel Stan Lee | ||
The Marvel Fact Files are a series of encyclopedic guide which detail the fictional universe featured in Marvel Comics publications. The magazine series is published in the UK by Eaglemoss Publications starting in 2013.
The magazines are published in a similarly way as the Master Edition of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Each issue is a shrink-wrapped pack of double-sided loose-leaf pages (only glued together for transport). A three-ring vinyl binder was also released for the pages to be inserted into and is regularly distributed with the magazine.
Subscribers receive three other pieces of memorabilia and also special issues throughout the year with extra figures like the mega-specials of The Classic Marvel Figurine Collection. The online service, based in the UK, prohibits the items to be sold directly to American buyers, however the magazines can be obtained through several comic book speciality stores in the United States and in Europe. The collection was announced to be ending with issue 100 at first but was prolonged to issue 150 in 2015 and to issue 200 in 2016. Eaglemoss have added 50 more issue for 2017, taking the issue total to 250.
The Marvel Fact Files where translated into Italian and Spanish, the latter received a 70 issues hard cover edition.
Credits
Editors in order of stewardship: John Tomlinson, Sven Wilson, Matt McAllister
Art Editors: Colin Williams, Dan Rachael