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Title: Essential Captain America by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Gil Kane, George Tuska, Dick Ayers, John Romita, Jack Sparling ISBN: 0-7851-0740-1 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.89 (18 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Essential Cap stories
Comment: This book covers one of the most interesting periods in Cap`s career. He`s on his own from the Avengers, as far as his own series, and the focus is all Cap! This book really gives you the essential early history of one of Marvel`s eternal heroes. The fact that it even flashes back to Cap`s origin and covers a smattering of WW II stories is key. You get to see both era`s of Cap, and it really shows how little he`s changed. I`ve always been a fan of Cap`s early days and love Tales of Suspense and anything to do with vintage Cap. Seeing Bucky is a bonus too! And of course, this book contains essential Red Skull stories too! (His War years and how he survived to the modern era, as well as his wildest world conquering schemes ever! ) This book has it all. These issues are a must read for any Cap fan. I also recommend The Classic Years Vol.1. Both give you the history of Cap in it`s original format. My only complaint is that some of the pages were copied from finished artwork, rather than the original uncoloured plates. This creates a inconsistency in the flow of certain stories, but at least every panel and page is there. So I can`t complain too loudly. It`s still a treasure!
Rating: 4
Summary: Cap's Greatest Battles
Comment: Although one would expect Captain America to be be the spearhead in the 60s Marvel battles with Communism, there is only one story in this book with a Communist villain. For the most part, Cap is shown battling sinister organizations and remnants of the Nazis. And Battle he does, Kirby shows more kinetic energy in these stories than any of the other series he worked on. Perhaps it was the fact that his connection with Cap goes back to the 40s. Every story shines with drawings of Captain America flipping, jumping and slamming his way through battle after battle. And we get classic stories from the 60s-the Sleepers, Nazi superweapons programmed to arise in the 60s, The Cosmic Cube, the most powerful device in the universe. Add to this great villains like the Red Skull, Zemo, the Adaptoid and Modok. I only have one quibble with the book, the starkness of the black and white art does not allow us to see Cap is risking his neck to rescue a black Air Force pilot from Vietnam-the pilot is white here. In many pages, the Black Panther when out of costume is white. The only inkling we get that the greatest of the black superheroes is actually black comes because some of the pages had to be photocopied from actual comics. The Panther was a groundbreaking character in comics but his relevance is almost lost in this anthology.
Rating: 2
Summary: Great artwork, but the stories don't work
Comment: Captain America goes up against vast super-scientific organizations who sport some astonishing weapons. This gives Jack Kirby a chance to draw some brilliant fantasy environments. His illustrations of high technology, while far from scientifically accurate, are a kind of mythical representation of the modern world.
However, it's hard to get around the fact that Captain America is an acrobat whose only weapon is his shield. He's really out of place in these stories. It takes the whole Avengers to defeat a foe like the Living Laser or the Swordsman, but Captain America can single-handedly topple an organization made of hundreds of men, all of them armed with sophisticated firearms?
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Title: Essential Daredevil: The Man Without Fear by Stan Lee, Wallace Wood, John Romita, Gene Colan, Wally Wood ISBN: 0785109498 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Stan Lee Presents the Essential Avengers, Vol. 1: Avengers #1-24 ("Marvel Essentials" Series) by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Don Heck ISBN: 0785107010 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Essential Avengers, Volume II by Stan Lee, Don Heck, Roy Thomas ISBN: 078510741X Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Essential Iron Man by Stan Lee, Don Heck, Al Hartley, Larry Lieber ISBN: 078511002X Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: ESSENTIAL THOR by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby ISBN: 0785107614 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: 28 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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