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    <body><![CDATA[Back at my previous site (*cough*don’t mind the link, fellas!*cough*), I had written a glowing review of DK Publishing’s DC Comics Encylopedia. Then, a couple months back, I wrote another glowing review of their Guide to Conan. I had every reason to expect greatness from their new Marvel Encyclo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45517728">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up at the library to see how it compared to the old Marvel Universe.  It looks like it will be less dense, but covers some newer characters and plotlines.<br/><br/>...<br/><br/>Well, some of the choices for expanded entries are odd (I mean, do we need 2/3 of a page for Man-Beast?) ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62372528">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[if full of realy good background info and stuff that i never knew.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Good for ANY Marvel fan and better for any starting into it. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not a bad book - useful as a reference, *but* being a Marvel fan, I have to say that DK did a much better job with the DC Encyclopedia.  The Marvel Encyclopedia is lacking in detail and content such that die-hards (such as myself) must refer to the Official Handbook, begging the question: Why did th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6208">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure who approved the final copy, but well they need to get fired.  A lot of fun info, and for non fan boys it's a good read, but who other than fan boys are gonna buy a comic encyclopedia? Alot of errors, and omissions, shadowcat gets the same size entry as the living planet? whatever, stil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4005938">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is sweet for any fan of comics. The history of all the well known and relatively unknown comic characters of the Marvel Franchise. It has great illustrations, bios, stats, etc. Very in depth research was done for this.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite comic book characters to draw dc comics comes in a distant second.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Green Lantern is my match, but sadly, he is a DC Comics hero.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite encyclopedia ]]></body>
    
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