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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Marvel's "All in one"edition
Comment: 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.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Wonderful reference, marred by serious typographical errors
Comment: 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.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Marvel Encyclopedia a 'must-have'
Comment: The Marvel Encyclopedia is a fantastic compilation of the characters inhabiting the Marvel universe.
It was interesting reading the backgrounds on the wide array of characters as well as where they
first appeared (what issue, year, etc.). The more popular characters (Wolverine, Venom, Spiderman,
etc.) are usually given one to two pages for their own history and rightly so. There's more of a
following and interest in someone like Venom's history as opposed to a lesser known villain that
lasted 3 issues in 1974 (and thus is given a postage stamp-sized blurb). Also, I would have to say
the deal on Amazon was great. It was $26 here versus a $40 price tag I saw at a local chain book
store.

Customer Rating:
Summary: awesome
Comment: this book is full of cool things and i really like it and i just love this book . it is so fun to
read.

Customer Rating:
Summary: The Marvel Encyclopedia
Comment: My son Jarett is 8 yrs old and very much into marvel super heros and especially the villians!!! This
book is so detailed and so wonderfully illustrated. We can't believe you can learn so much about
one charater in a paragraph or just one page. You will find out things you did not know. For
example, what happened to Mary Jane Watsons mother!!!! But the best part is my son carries this
huge book around wherever he goes. He reads in the car back and forth to karate practice and even
sits on the couch and reads instead of TV or nintendo DS all the time!!!! He has not put it down
since he recieved it. In fact, he put on his Christmas wish list the DC encylopedia next!!!! Thank
you marvel for making such a wonderful and interesting book even a mom can enjoy with her son!!!!