Books : The DC Comics Encyclopedia

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Rating:

- Best DC character resource
This book is an awesome resource for any one looking into characters in the DC Universe. The book covers nearly every character the company has published, and is a good source of info for the most obscure of characters. The book is fairly up to date. At the time of publishing, it had a character's death announced before it even happened in the comics!! This book is the new Who's Who of the DCU.

Rating:

- D C Comics Encyclopedia
The book is better than I had expected. Completely satisfied

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- Who's Who in hardcover
While the DC Comics Encyclopedia can be very useful in tracking down obscure old characters currently appearing in DC's "52" event (it has entries for Devilance the Pursuer, Beefeater and The Inferior Five, for example), it's not really an "encyclopedia" in the truest sense of the term. If you wanted to look up information, for example, on important DC Universe locales you might find a paragraph or two on Opal City and a page on Metropolis, but ultimately anything besides just characters finds itself limited to a two-page spread (Teams, Vehicles, etc). The result is that this book is not so much the encyclopedia I was hoping for as it is an updated (as of 2002) version of DC's landmark 1980s series "Who's Who." It's a useful resource, make no mistake, but ultimately not someplace you can go to find out about S.T.A.R. Labs or get a chart of cabinet positions during the Luthor Administration. For those things, you need the Internet.

Rating:

- Good by for fans
Good information and very nice to see descriptions of some of the lesser knowns. Helps clear up some things about continuity, but summaries seem brief for the main characters.

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- DC, I still don't get them.
I am a marvel fan. I like DC, but I am not a die hard fan. DC is fantasy. Marvel less fantasy.(At least after that 90's weirdness.)I love Batman and Superman, but the rest of the DC Universe is out three. In the Justice League cartoon, Doomsday was just an alien who wanted a fight. According to this Encyclopedia, he was created on Krypton (Which makes his body able to kill Superman) and was sent into space in a suit he could not escape from. He lands on Earth and spends hundreds of years trying to break free. He finallly does and digs his way to surface. Instead of celebrating, he kills Superman. Wow! Get this book if you like things like this. Personally, DC leaves a bad taste and I can only take so much at one time.

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