Marvel Cinematic Universe Guidebook: The Avengers Initiative

by Mike O'Sullivan

The official handbook of the Marvel Cinematic Universe takes you all the way through Phase One and to the dawn of Phase Two! Filled with fact sheets, movie-to-comic comparisons, behind-the-scenes art and production stills, this volume details the first eight blockbuster Marvel movies - from 2008's Iron Man to 2013's The Dark World. In-depth character profiles give you the whole story on heroes like Captain America, the Hulk, Black Widow, War Machine, Hawkeye and more! Deadly villains including Abomination, Loki, Red Skull and the Mandarin! Plus a universe of supporting characters like Nick Fury, Bucky Barnes, Peggy Carter and Phil Coulson! It's your indispensable guide to the MCU!
GUIDEBOOK TO THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE - MARVEL'S IRON MAN, MARVEL'S INCREDIBLE HULK, MARVEL'S IRON MAN 2, MARVEL'S THOR, MARVEL'S CAPTAIN THE FIRST AVENGER, MARVEL'S THE AVENGERS, MARVEL'S IRON MAN 3, MARVEL'S THE DARK WORLD

Genres: Nonfiction, Graphic Novels, Comics

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2017

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Reviews

[Saphirablue · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was so disappointing. :(

I expected to gain some more information and background on the characters of the various movies but that did not really happen. With every character, we get told the same story (of the movie) again and again. Some descriptions felt like they've just been copy & pasted from another character and just the names had been switched out. :( To end, I just skimmed everything. :(

The only new (to me) information we got, was the little box with information how that character fared in the comics. :(

[Jen · Rating 2 out of 5]

This would have been an AMAZING MCU reference guide if it had been 1. Larger, very slim and missing tons of people, plus the reference for each person is little more than a paragraph; 2. Up to date. This basically became obsolete the day it was published (unless there is a volume 2 in the works).

This stops at Thor: Dark World which means it only includes one Avengers film and one Captain America, plus no Black Panther.

Looking on Amazon there appear to be four other MCU guidebooks. Why are there so many, you ask?!? Because this one is tiny. 😒 I think the publisher should have waited just a tiny bit longer to fit more films into this book. This cam put in April, ‘It’s all connected’ came out the following Jan, ‘The good the bad and the Guardians’ came out Dec the same year, and the big Omnibus comes out in Oct. WTF should have waited for the Omnibus which apparently has some Infinity and BP, etc. and CIVIL WAR!

[Brian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Why did it take so long to get this book out?

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very in depth look at the MCU

[Candy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Quick read

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 4 out of 5]

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