Marvel Avengers: The Ultimate Character Guide Author: Alan Cowsill | Language: English | ISBN:
0756667402 | Format: EPUB
Marvel Avengers: The Ultimate Character Guide Description
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"(This) fun-to-thumb through guide provides a quick glance at the visually stunning and creatively imagined individuals (enhanced humans, aliens, gods, androids, and more) that people the Avengers universe." – School Library Journal
A YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers for 2012.
- Age Range: 8 - 17 years
- Grade Level: 3 - 12
- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: DK Publishing (October 1, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0756667402
- ISBN-13: 978-0756667405
- Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
The Avengers, the most widely known team of superheroes in the Marvel Universe, made their comic book debut in September of 1963 in their first eponymous publication series The Avengers #1, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in response to DC Comics' Justice League of America. This first incarnation consisted of founding members Ant-Man, Iron Man, Thor, the Wasp and the Hulk, and has since had a vast array of the Marvel superhero community on their roster, as well as several splinter groups and off-shoots (such as the West Coast Avengers and, more recently, the New Avengers). Over the many years of various Avengers-related titles and storylines, with an increasing roster number and rogues gallery, it is fair to say that compiling a database of such for the mass market would be no easy feat. In fact, for that such publication, it is probably best to explore 'The Marvel Encyclopedia', that contains a vast amount of information pertaining to each character within the Marvel Universe, not just focusing on the Avengers, but other teams, solo adventurers etc.
The 'Avengers Ultimate Character Guide', originally released by DK in 2010 and, again, in 2012 (the edition on which this review is based) only partially lives up to its name, with over 200 character profiles presented in alphabetical order from Amadeus Cho to Yondu. Let it be stressed that this most certainly is not a guide to each and every character within the Marvel Universe. DK has released a picturesque character guide focusing on the Avengers team within Marvel lore, and this does not involve information and people from other teams and publications therein. Such a feat would most definitely require a lot more than two hundred pages to do so.
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