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Summary: Hulk: The Impressive Guide
Review: I got this for Christmas and just finished reading it. The format of this book is great. It starts with basic information on Bruce Banner, The Hulk, Hulk's powers, Betty Banner, and a few other main characters throughout Hulk's history. Then it is broken down into decades starting with the 1960's and going up through the 2000's. Each decade details major events, allies, and of course enemies of the Hulk. This set-up is perfect. The art is taken mostly from the comics and there are samples of pages added featuring the spotlighted character. All in all this is well worth the price for a fan of The Hulk.
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Summary: Hulk: The Impressive Guide
Review: I got this for Christmas and just finished reading it. The format of this book is great. It starts with basic information on Bruce Banner, The Hulk, Hulk's powers, Betty Banner, and a few other main characters throughout Hulk's history. Then it is broken down into decades starting with the 1960's and going up through the 2000's. Each decade details major events, allies, and of course enemies of the Hulk. This set-up is perfect. The art is taken mostly from the comics and there are samples of pages added featuring the spotlighted character. All in all this is well worth the price for a fan of The Hulk.
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Summary: Hulk Guide Great Recap of History
Review: Mr. DeFalco's latest Guide for the Incredible Hulk shows a tremendous amount of research and skill in editing in focusing on the history and surrounding chararacters of the Hulk mythos. I confess this is my first Marvel DK Book, that I've looked at. Previously, I've spent more time examining the DC ones, (Superman, Batman, the Justice League, etc). And I have to confess that background gives me a slant. Unlike DC, Marvel did not trash or recon its history as extensively as the Superman Group did in the mid-eighties, so their continuity is far more coherent than in DC. I confess I love that. It's a good read. Mr. Defalco covers the major storylines, with recommendations on some of his best-loved favorites. There were a few two-age spreads that I thought could have been used for more textual information. But that's just my humble opinion. Of course, this is to tie-in with the upcoming Hulk movie release (smart move, wait till a major publicity event is coming to relaunch books like these). I look forward to more such books from both DC and Marvel. From Marvel: The Fantastic Four and Daredevel, From DC: Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel. Not bad. JThree carolyn@dia.net
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Summary: Incredible Hulk Great and Extenstive
Review: This is the first of the Marvel Guides I've commented on. In the past, I've focused primarily on the DC titles (Superman, Batman, JLA), but this is the first real Marvel one. Someone I've skipped the Spider Man and X-Men ones. Hey, A guy can't afford everything. Anyway, I got an early copy of the text yesterday, and I must say Mr. Defalco did his homework and research really well. The Visual Guide covers most of the highlights of the Hulk's 40 year career. The one advantage that the Marvel Books have over DC, is they don't have to worry about all the revisionism problems that DC ran into in the mid 80's when Superman and a few other character's history got rewritten. So in effect, the Marvel history is far more coherent, and doesn't have all the "glitches" the DC texts have. As for this one, I loved the set up, and how the chapters were broken up. The major characters, and events were mentioned. Somehow I had the idea that the Bill Bixby/Lou Ferrigno tv version would get a few pages. But I was mistaken, this was a comics only Guide. Still, it's a great overview, and the DK books have really helped give a general idea of the high points in the Hulk Comics. And the afterword points to some of the best stories. I look forward to more of these books both from Marvel and DC. In particular, the Fantastic Four, Daredevil. And from DC, Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel and a few miscellaneous characters. One side bar, is there any way, future versions of these books, can focus all the various incarnations of the characters from film, television, and cartoons.
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Summary: A Great Guide
Review: Tom DeFalco does a great job again (as he did with Spider-Man The Ultimate Guide), and I consider this book the best Hulk encyclopedia out there. Precise, accurate, giving proper credit to all Hulk artists, major or not, with tons of great images, easy-and-fun-to-read, in summary, a great buy. I could not say the same about the Hulk Marvel Encyclopedia by Kit Kiefer, which is a true dissapointment, a 3/5 stars book (tops), deserved by the great artwork on it, and the sections about Hulk merchandising, the TV series, and the 2k3 movie. Kit's book is sometimes inaccurate (for ex., it says that on the first issues, Banner changed into the Hulk when he was asleep, page 28, but it was nightfall that triggered the changes), calls the Hulk a 'keep-it-simple-stupid-character' (page 22), ridiculizes Peter David's run saying about his comics: 'they were not the Hulk', does not even mention Sal Buscema, the most prolific Hulk artist of all, but does mention his late brother John who probably did 3 issues maximum. It's your money, but I suggest you get DeFalco's guide, a true homage to the incredible Hulk.
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Summary: Defalco has a real ego....
Review: well, this book appears to have been DeFalco's attempt to say everything wrong about which writer and artist did with the Hulk over the years. Other then the Lee/Kirby issues, DeFalco seems to belive that no one else ever did the book or charecter justice. Please Mr. DeFalco, put it to bed.
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Summary: Defalco has a real ego....
Review: well, this book appears to have been DeFalco's attempt to say everything wrong about which writer and artist did with the Hulk over the years. Other then the Lee/Kirby issues, DeFalco seems to belive that no one else ever did the book or charecter justice. Please Mr. DeFalco, put it to bed.
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