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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781563891533
ISBN: 1563891530
Label: DC Comics
Manufacturer: DC Comics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: May 01, 1995
Publisher: DC Comics
Release Date: May 01, 1995
Studio: DC Comics
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`Power of Shazam' is a truly unique piece of art. This short graphic novel features a young, muscular, Fred MacMurry lookalike fighting a young, muscular, Boris Karloff lookalike, with results that are thrilling and wondrous as opposed to ridiculous. The success of this peculiar narrative form in this case is due to the virtuosity of artist/writer Jerry Ordway and the fact that the comic strip is still a place where anything can happen (CGI has brought cinema closer to achieving this, but as of ... Read More
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Thanks to all the reviewers who bought this book and liked it well enough to write. It was a labor of love for the author,trying to recapture the thrills of the 1940's Republic Pictures serial and has had a nice long shelf life. If you like this, please seek out the comic book that followed, or request that DC comics collect those issues into trade collections. Thanks, JerAdventures of Captain Marvel
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thi book was on great condition and was send to very quickly
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I LOVE Cap Marvel. Which is why I was a bit dissapointed with this read. The art is fine. Nothing to marvel at. I finished in twenty minutes. I personally love long reads, so don't let that deter you. I guess I've just been so spoiled lately to titles like "Identity Crisis" and "Astonishing X-Men," and "Y, The Last Man," that I was hoping for something on that grand of a scale.
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Captain Marvel would have to be one of my most favorite superheroes in the DCU. Not only is he nearly as old as Superman in how long he has been around. Captain Marvel to me represents every childs imagination. While your outside playing superheroes (for those of us that did) we were imagining that we were "growing" up and being a Superhero. Not just becoming someone else with powers. Well, at least I did.
Captain Marvel is the corner stone to the childs imagination it taps into ... Read More
