DC Comics Ultimate Character Guide New Edition

If superb heroes are your thing then this book is excellent. Obviously aimed at kids. I'd never heard of most of the characters but that's no surprise as I couldn't be less interested. Excellent quality book, perfectly proportioned for a small person.

My son loved this...He’s a huge DC fan and this book has every fact he would ever want to know about his favourite heroes and villains.

A gift for a DC comic fan

Well' after reading the above comprehensive reviews, I thought I would do one that is hopefully more helpful to those wishing to know more before committing. Before that 'Amazon' please have a new policy for submitting reviews. A review should be a review of product, not on your service or condition of item, other forums for that. Anyhow' my review. This edition is 'slightly expanded from the 2011 edition, but as can see from samples does follow same format. The book's dimensions are smaller, which frankly is better for 'space' reasons. Though text is still discernible & colours vibrant. I think the odd character study is lifted directly from previous edition, whilst others are different artwork, sometimes because of a new version of a character. However what is puzzling is the choices of entries. Is the book, an overview of the existing DC Universe continuity or just general character guide? For example, presently the Justice Society of America is not present in continuity, but they are here. Some of the individual entries are dropped, whilst others remain? No 'Hourman' but still 'Doctor Mid-Nite.' Will Payton' Starman is substituted by Jack Knight, and yet the Justice League entry is the Synder version. Don't match, any newcomer delving into the DC Universe is initially going to be very confused about it all, if using this as a guide! 'The New Age of Heroes' line of characters, why omissions? 'The Silencer' by far the most popular and Isn't included where as 'Damage, Brimstone & Sideways (whose runs are done) are!? We get the individual character studies for 'The Terrifics' but not the group? The Titans get both? Where's the 'Justice League Odyssey' or 'Dark' for that matter. None of the alternative Batmen? The compiling does leave a lot to desire with this book. Yes, beautifully produced, but not a comprehensive coherent guide to characters 'presently' existing within the DC Universe. Strange inclusions & Omissions. A little bit more thought to the final product would had produced something both die-hard & casual readers' both could had appreciate. A bit of a mish-mash. Score: Between Seven & Eight out of Ten.

Great pictures and loved the details

Great little addition to my set. Brilliant pictures and well worth the money. Would make a great gift for a DC fan

I really like the excellent artwork, maybe not some many awesome characters as marvel but really still like it.

Phenomenally cool!

Hele knappe strip/boek met wederom zwakke verpakking. Amazon snapt nog steeds niet dat een goede prijs EN een goede verpakking gezond zouden zijn voor de omzet.

carino

I needed a book for reference in some art work. DC characters are my favorite & it’s cool getting to know those that I don’t know. The price on this book was very good compared to others. It’s great quality in every way. One point is that it’s much smaller - thinner - than I had expected. That’s just my issue. They cover most the uDC Characters but it’s not as thorough as the larger mega-pages books I have on other graphic novel/comic characters. Regardless, the book is a hard cover-like the really hard school book type covers with the sharper edges, ha! Perfect for my book shelf - the art, the descriptions, the layout are all excellent and it has helped me with the projects which I needed it.

Material de qualidade, boas ilustrações, em sua maioria. Em inglês. Cada página apresenta brevemente um personagem da DC. Recomendo.

Great art work and descriptions of the characters. Fun to read and look up characters with my kids when watching DC shows!