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Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. I am a huge fan of DC Comics! I love this book wholeheartedly. This book allows the readers to get know each character in DC Comics. If you are a fan of DC Comics then I would massively recommended you to read this book.
View 2 comments. Jul 25, Mark rated it liked it. I know that all of this info is available on DC Wikia and other sources. But overtime, and reboots, I fell away. I read the occasional trade now. Very nice primer on where their universe stood a year ago. The two groups do face each other during the primary run of that title. Hmm Moments: This mentions the end of Nu52 and the beginning of Rebirth.
Wonder how out of date some of these entries already are. The updated Alpha Centurion sounds a bit like Aztek. Reading this makes me want to start writing fan fic again. Not that I will. Nov 26, Douglas Gibson rated it really liked it. I loved this book!
The only thing preventing me from giving it an "it was amazing" rating is that for the fact that for most of the characters the majority of the information comes from the New 52 reboots which I understand was the most current incarnation at the time this was written. But I would have preferred for characters that have 30 plus years of history which is the majority of the characters in the book that their complex backgrounds and histories would have been given more than a f I loved this book!
But I would have preferred for characters that have 30 plus years of history which is the majority of the characters in the book that their complex backgrounds and histories would have been given more than a few sentences in a text box called "For the Record. I have used it over a dozen times to look up characters and find clarification as I read my comics. I guess they'll be writing another edition in a year or two to help clarify all the reboots that occurred to the continuity after Rebirth.
May 24, RumBelle rated it it was amazing Shelves: nonfiction , favorites. I read the first version of this that was published in , and loved it.
Reading this updated edition was all the more enjoyable. It added newer information about the characters, and their story-lines, up through The art was, as always, impeccable.
Reading superhero, and super-villain, character biographies is always enjoyable for me. This book allows you to better understand the characters that inhabit the world of DC comics.
Every character you read about is interesting, and intriguing I read the first version of this that was published in , and loved it. Every character you read about is interesting, and intriguing.
Aug 27, Ben Truong rated it it was amazing Shelves: comics , reference , superheroes. One could tell who wrote which entry by their initials provided above. DC Comics Encyclopedia is a colorful visual encyclopedia with entries varying in length from an eighth of a page for a minor character with half-page spread, full page spread, two-page spread for the major character depending on how prominent they are and two two-page spread four pages to the Trinity Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman.
Each entry from A. New 52 , their power and abilities, and the allies, enemies, and associations. Their entries are short and concise to give a sense of the superhero, super-villain, and team in question. It is primarily focused on the rebooted version of the characters, but in many entries, they mentioned the previous incarnations. Aside from the encyclopedia and the entries itself, there is a two-page spread about the history of the DC Universe from the Golden Age of Comics to the current age — the Modern Age.
There are, as mentioned, a host of unknown good and bad guys who are just waiting for the right storyline that will catapult them to fame and notoriety, like Man-bat, the Inferior Five, Mad Harriet, and Professor Ivo, to name a few. For people of color who love a good or bad! The DC Comics Encyclopedia is one amazing book. Coverleaf: 0. Full Online. Solomon Full Epub. Full Pages. Gladding Full Online. McMaster Full Books. File Name: the dc comics encyclopedia pdf. Account Options.
Find out details on the various sets and where each minifigure appears, as well as their special weapons, cool gadgets, and amazing vehicles. All Rights Reserved. Is Superman the strongest Super Hero alive? Where is Wonder Woman from? Is Darkseid the most evil Super-Villain ever? Who is the fastest man alive? Who are Batman's allies? Have to know the answers to these questions?
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