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| The Marvel Encyclopedia | 
 enlarge | Authors: Daniel Wallace, Tom Brevoort, Andrew J. Darling, Tom Defalco, Peter Sanderson, Michael Teitelbaum
Publisher: DK ADULT
Category: Book
List Price: $40.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (76 reviews)
Sales Rank: 760
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1ST
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.6
Dimensions (in): 12 x 10 x 1.2
ISBN: 0756623588
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.597303
EAN: 9780756623586
ASIN: 0756623588
Publication Date: October 16, 2006
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Product Description
Marvel Comics' character roster boasts some of the best known and most popular characters ever conceived-heroes that are international household names, both as comic book stars and movie stars, such as Spider-Man, the Hulk and Wolverine. This unique, one-volume encyclopedia contains more than 1000 of Marvel's greatest, with full details of their powers and their thrill-packed careers. The encyclopedia's range of spectacular art features eye-popping work by Marvel's finest artists, while the authoritative text is supplied by a team of top Marvel comic book writers. In addition, double-page features, illustrated with classic covers, trace the fascinating story of Marvel Comics through the decades. The Marvel Comics Encyclopedia is an essential book both for new fans and for those who grew up loving the excitement, heroism and humor of the Marvel Universe. Includes a foreword by Stan Lee.
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 Very poor, cheesy and generic new age animation November 3, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
While this book is somewhat entertaining to flip through, the new style of generic artwork and animation ruins the experience. Gone are the old type illustrations and artwork of these characters from the original artists of the 60's, 70's, 80's and even 90's. They have all been replaced by crappy updated "ultimate" style animations and CHEESY artwork that really is sub-standard in appearance. Most of these characters drawings are very simplistic in their quality and presentation. It is very difficult for old Marvel fans like me to tolerate these low quality renditions. Just not acceptable. Skip it unless you must have it.
 i looooove you October 31, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
so cool. am so impressed with this, a great gift idea or addition to any book collection. highly recommend it
ABSOLUTELY, DEFINITELY A MUST-HAVE FOR ALL MARVEL FANS! October 30, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Like the average child once, I read comic books, especially marvel comic books. Marvel IMO has the most extensive comic books characters, both hero and villain, ever written. This encyclopedia will open your eyes to all of those characters, educating you on just about every little detail you need to know about them. I was truly excited (and fascinated) upon receiving this book. Although I read a lot of comic books when I was a child, I was totally unaware of the other characters. This book gave me an insight of the extensiveness of the Marvel World. It is truly a work of art. One of this books you must have (and will read from time to time).
Great Marvel's "All in one"edition October 20, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this book as a gift for my 14 years old son. He loves it. If you like comics, or if you are passionate fun of Marvel's best characters having this book IS A MUST.
 Wonderful reference, marred by serious typographical errors September 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I got this book for my birthday and I'm really, really glad that I got it. Want to get that out of the way first. As a basic reference source it's excellent as a geeky coffee table book it's pretty much without peer. It's on my desk at work and at least once a day I get into a vigorous debate or pleasant conversation about Marvel and Marveldom. On a personal level, as the only guy in my neighbourhood who collect all of OHOTMUDE (seriously, the comic guy got one copy of each issue and kept it behind the counter for me), it's just a fun read.
Unfortunately, while it could have been much more than that, it's really just a fun read.
There are numerous typographical errors, about one every two pages or so. Either the origin issue is wrong, a word is badly misspelled or, as is the case with the entry for the Soviet Super Soldiers, the majority of the illustrated heroes are labelled as "Undefined" when even this casual comic book fan can remember most of the names. It just didn't go through a final editing spit-and-polish and it shows.
Definitely a book that belongs in the collection of your average comic book geek, but it could have been quite a bit better.
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