Seth Poppel, a lifelong collector, is the media’s go-to guy for yearbooks of the stars—from Patti Smith (“Class Clown”) to Ruth Bader Ginsburg (“twirler”) to Leonardo DiCaprio (“Most Bizarre”).

The Expanse had plenty of source material to work through as the series is based on a series of nine novels from James S. A. Corey, which is the joint pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. There ...