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Title: Essential Captain America (Volume 2) by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Jim Steranko ISBN: 0-7851-0827-0 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.95 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A great companion piece for a great graphic novel
Comment: As great as this graphic novel was by itself, I know of one helluva great companion piece in the form of a book entitled "The Adventures of Darkeye: Cyber Hunter" whose odd manner of having log-entries over chapters seems almost like the script for a graphic novel, even though it is in the science fiction/high-tech and cyberpunk genre along with books like "Cryptonomicon", "Snow Crash", "Prey", and "Altered Carbon". Very fast-paced and visual as well as being very exciting due to its action-packed pages.
Rating: 2
Summary: Great artwork, but the stories don't work
Comment: Captain America goes up against vast super-scientific organizations who sport some astonishing weapons. This gives Jack Kirby a chance to draw some brilliant fantasy environments. His illustrations of high technology, while far from scientifically accurate, are a kind of mythical representation of the modern world.
However, it's hard to get around the fact that Captain America is an acrobat whose only weapon is his shield. He's really out of place in these stories. It takes the whole Avengers to defeat a foe like the Living Laser or the Swordsman, but Captain America can single-handedly topple an organization made of hundreds of men, all of them armed with sophisticated firearms?
Rating: 3
Summary: A nice way to complete a collection
Comment: So there's no way I'm ever going to buy these as actual comics. Wanting to complete my collection, the "Essential" series is a nice way to read up on stories that were published before I was collecting. (Indeed, in this case, before I was born.)
This is cheaply printed and bound, (Mind you this is not necessarily a criticism) the B&W art starts to hurt your eyes after a few pages. Some of these stories are so badly dated that they're barely worth reading anymore.
If you're a fan, you need this, but don't expect any of it to surpass the mediocre.
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Title: Essential Daredevil: The Man Without Fear by Stan Lee, Wallace Wood, John Romita, Gene Colan, Wally Wood ISBN: 0785109498 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Stan Lee Presents the Essential Avengers, Vol. 1: Avengers #1-24 ("Marvel Essentials" Series) by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Don Heck ISBN: 0785107010 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: ESSENTIAL THOR by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby ISBN: 0785107614 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: 28 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Essential Iron Man by Stan Lee, Don Heck, Al Hartley, Larry Lieber ISBN: 078511002X Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Essential Avengers, Volume II by Stan Lee, Don Heck, Roy Thomas ISBN: 078510741X Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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