Marvel Spider-Man Character Encyclopedia New Edition

by Melanie Scott

Celebrate Spidey’s 60th Anniversary with this new edition Character Encyclopedia!

Spider-Man is one of the world's best-loved and most recognized super heroes, the spectacular star of the comic books. Released to coincide with Spidey’s 60th anniversary in 2022, the Spider-Man Character Encyclopedia New Edition profiles more than 200 timeless Spidey characters in alphabetical order.

Packed with original Marvel artwork and fascinating info, it's the perfect introduction to the web-slinger's amazing world.



- Vibrant original comic book artwork.
- Each character gets a single page and every profile includes an overview and amazing facts and stats.
- Key info about iconic heroes and villains, and their adventures in the Marvel Comics universe is contained in small, easily-read captions, ideal for younger readers.
- Data files include key character info such as strength, speed, and fighting skill.

Marvel Spider-Man Character Encyclopedia New Edition is a must-have volume for fans of Marvel characters from the comics, including younger fans who might be intimidated by larger, more complex Marvel titles.

Genres: Marvel

208 pages, Hardcover

Published November 1, 2022

Reviews

[Omri · Rating 2 out of 5]

My parents purchased this book for my children after we put it on a wish list for them. The book has great illustrations and fun background information on various characters. Unfortunately, there is lots of immodesty (I know, that’s expected in comic book culture) as well as homosexual references. They included the following blurb about Iceman: “ Bobby has come out as gay and for a time was in a relationship with Emma Frost‘s brother Christian.” (p. 74).
My wife recalls another instance or two of similar content, but cannot remember where exactly. The LGBTQIA+ agenda in this book is unfortunate. We returned the book and got another one instead. Also, in a quick search on Grok, this content didn’t show up, so I’m leaving this review especially so that other cautious parents are aware.

[Jamieb · Rating 2 out of 5]

I wasn't impressed with this at all. Even as something short, and for kids, it's disappointing. Not much effort was put into it all, with at least one character in costume having a label that seemed to be there just to fill space seeing as it said '_ wears a costume to conceal their identity'. I also noticed a couple obvious spelling and grammar mistakes that should have been caught during editing.

If the art had been better I might have been able to forgive it at a little, but that isn't any less disappointing than the rest of it. Some of the choices are poor given the quality of the work representing characters with decades of history, others have been resized/blown-up/cropped in such a way to leave them blurry, out of focus or rendered of poorer quality for having been made a size they were never supposed to be.

[Grace · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of good info and many characters I learned about the different friends and foes spider man has.

[Matthew Fleming · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very well-presented, and there's a lot of good stuff here. A lot of those number rankings are total nonsense though - it'll say in the bio 'super durable' and then have durability ranked at 1 or something.

Not enough X-Men, either, my son would say.