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Title: Crisis on Infinite Earths by Marv Wolfman, George Perez ISBN: 1-56389-750-4 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (51 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A mixed bag depending on the reader
Comment: Way back in 1985, the editors at DC Comics realized they had a bit of a problem. Since the the beginning of DC Comics, there had been a huge number of alternate multi-verses containing differing Earth's (Earth 1, Earth 2, Earth X, etc.) and different heroes and villians as well. Enter Marv Wolfman, the writer who would create the villian The Monitor who would destroy the countless universes and change the face of the DC universe for years. This entire huge 12 issue series is collected here and is an epic in every sense of the word. Here we witness the deaths of the original Supergirl and the Barry Allen Flash, along with countless other lesser known older age DC characters. George Perez' art is nicely done, but Wolfman's dialogue among the heroes and the storyline in general is just so cliche for a comic story (then again, I shouldn't expect anything different considering this is a major mainstream comic series) that some readers may be turned off. Not to mention the inclusion of many characters from the 1940's, 50's, and 60's are here as well, and younger comic fans will care less about what happens to them. All in all, Crisis on Infinite Earths is an epic collection that is essential for any DC fanboy, but that's just about it.
Rating: 4
Summary: A History making Mini-series
Comment: I was one of the people who purchased the limited printed hardcover version of this book. At the time, there were no plans to publish this trade paperback version. Having read Crisis when it first came out, I wanted to have a copy with clean printing to keep for posterity.
Crisis tells the classic, history making event that reshaped the DC Universe. This storyline takes DC's various Earths and consolidates them into one, seemless history. While the story can be disjointed in a few places, it does an incredible job bringing all the various characters together. And George Perez does an outstanding job in ilustrating practically every character that ever appeared in a DC comic up to 1985 (when the story was first published).
Even for the price, this trade paperback is worth the cost. If you have a sense of comic book history and are a big fan of the DC universe, this is a must book.
Rating: 2
Summary: Lot's the drawings and no story....
Comment: So why did DC do this story? According to Marv Wolfman, it was an effort to make the books easier for readers to follow. Destroy all the various DC universes and just create one where all the characters live. Great idea right? Nope. From day one, this series was plauged with trying to cramp too many stories into one book and wrap up as many unfinished stories as they could. It gave me a headage just trying to keep up with the 12 different sub-plots going on each book. There were several characters like Supergirl who died in action....and many of the surviving characters had their names, origins, and powers either altered, changed, or compltedly revamped. In the end, only about five of the DC heroes emereged with their origins and their characters more or less intact; Superman,Batman,Wonder-Woman, Green Lantern, and the Flash. I guess you could say they were the only real survivors, the rest of the DC heroes were all new characters from the inside/out and they really were and still are bad ideas that make for poor reading.
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Title: Crisis On Multiple Earths, Vol. 1 by Mike Sekowsky, Gardner Fox ISBN: 1563898950 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: History of the DC Universe by Marv Wolfman, George Perez ISBN: 1563897989 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Kingdom Come (Graphic Novel) by Mark Waid, Alex Ross ISBN: 1563893304 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Crisis on Multiple Earths, Vol. 2 by Gardner Fox ISBN: 1401200036 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: JLA: Tower of Babel (Book 7) by Mark Waid ISBN: 156389727X Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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