The Avengers: The Ultimate Guide to Earth's Mightiest Heroes! Book Review

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The Avengers: The Ultimate Guide to Earth's Mightiest Heroes! Book Review

About the Book: Comic fans, young and old, can now learn everything there is to know about Marvel's very first Super Hero team, The Avengers. Making their very first appearance in The Avengers #1 in September of 1963, The Avengers have been known as the "Earth's Mightiest Heroes" ever since!

Full of stunning comic book art, DK's Avengers: The Ultimate Guide to Earth's Mightiest Heroes allows readers to discover the backstories, powers, allegiances, and archenemies of each member of this spectacular Super Hero team including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hawkeye, and many more.

Did you know Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) was born on Long Island? Or that Captain America's uniform is made of a fire-retardant material? With engaging information full of interesting character facts and a dynamic and innovative page design, Avengers: The Ultimate Guide to Earth's Mightiest Heroes is guaranteed to WOW even the most die-hard Avengers fans.

Our Take: The Avengers is the biggest movie of the year!   Any good comic book fan already knows about the fantastic guides that DK books puts out on a regular basis.  This new Ultimate Guide to the Avengers is more of the same great goodness!  The book takes apart the key characters, story arcs and formations of this famous Marvel Comics team.  You get detailed histories, key comic books and arcs to read and more.  Tons of great and full info and color pics from the various eras of the comic books.  I never was much on the Avengers growing up, but these new Marvel movies have sold me!  This book was a great way for me to catch up on these legendary team.  

Where to Buy: Amazon.com

Complete Price Guide to Watches 2012 Book Review

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Complete Price Guide to Watches 2012 Book Review

About the Book: The most reliable and convenient guide to watches available, Complete Price Guide to Watches is the definitive guide for all levels of watch education and collection. From the amateur collector to the most prestigious auction houses, Complete Price Guide to Watches has something for everyone. This book not only provides accurate pricing on a plethora of watches and thousands of photographs for watch identification, but also historical information on a myriad of watchmakers, including company histories, movement identification, serial numbers, grade numbers, production dates and quantities. All of this information is accented by antique illustrations salvaged and lovingly reproduced from long-lost watch catalogs, advertisements and brochures. It is because of this attention to detail that Complete Price Guide to Watches has attained its near-legendary status as the go-to guide for all things watch-related.

Our Take: Now, why would one need a watch guide book?  Well, a number of reasons actually.  If you're a seller or a collector you may be looking to identify a certain piece..and if that is what you want to do, then this book is it!  The book gives a great guide in the beginning that helps you to identify the manufacturer, information on cases..adjustments...the inner-workings..and thats not even mentioning this HUGE pictoral guide!  Its nice and thick, but not so big that you can't take it with you out in the field.  We HIGHLY recommend this one.

Where to Buy: Amazon.com

Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide: Updated and Expanded Book Review

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Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide: Updated and Expanded Book Review

About the Book: Revised and expanded!

Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide, newly revised and expanded, reveals the story of the amazing Star Wars saga in full detail. 40 new pages help to explain every detail about Star Wars from the millennia-spanning history of George Lucas's long ago, far away galaxy to the Star Wars movies and ever-expanding range of books, novels, comics, and media. Packed full of interesting facts about the world of Star Wars merchandise and fandom, astonishing pieces of art, and full-color photographs, DK's compendium is the key to knowing ALL there is to know about the iconic brand that is Star Wars!

Featuring tons of all-new content including characters, storylines, vehicles, weapons, merchandise, news, and beyond:

• LEGO® Star Wars™ sets and minifigures
• Latest seasons of the ever-popular animated series, The Clone Wars
• The Force Unleashed video games
• Blue-ray release of Episode I: The Phantom Menace
• Updated galactic timeline and galaxy map
• And much, much more!

Our Take: We love Star Wars here at the Legion.  Who doesn't, right?  One of the things about a franchise that has been going strong for over 30 years is that it has a lot of different offshoots.  There is the original trilogy..then the prequels..then the two animated series and the numerous graphic novels...well how do you keep track of it all, unless you're a die-hard fanatic?  Well, thanks to DK and their in-depth guides, you can!   I don't even know how the writers of these guides can begin to compile this level of information and organize it all, but the combination of fantastic full-color images and great in-depth info have helped me to fill in a lot of gaps that I have as a fan of Star Wars..I've learned about characaters and events I didn't even know about!  This one is a great book for a Star Wars fan, young and old.

Where to Buy: Amazon.com

Spider-Man: Inside the World of Your Friendly Neighborhood Hero Book Review

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Spider-Man: Inside the World of Your Friendly Neighborhood Hero Book Review

About the Book: The ultimate web-slinger is back in this exciting and informative ultimate guide. Spider-Man: Inside the World of your Friendly Neighborhood Hero traces Spider-Man's entire career from his high-school beginnings as Peter Parker to his love affair with the enchanting Mary Jane.

With foreword by Stan Lee and full details of Spidey's powers granted from the bite of an irradiated spider, as well as significant adventures, battles, loves, allies, and enemies, this all-inclusive book has a strong focus on storylines and conflicts within Spider-Man's world. Come to find out how your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man came to be created in 1962 and how the character has developed over the years. Full of interesting facts and dynamic comic book art, Spider-Man: Inside the World of your Friendly Neighborhood Hero is the tell-all to the famous Amazing Spider-Man.

Our Take: We love comics here at the Legion.  Marvel...Dc..Darkhorse, we don't discriminate.  Spider-man is one of the most iconic Marvel heroes and this new DK book focuses on Spidey's extensive past.  DK is well known for producing great guides for cartoons and comic books.  This one, written by Matthew Manning, is masterfully produced and well put together.   He covers all of the key characters and key plots with ease and so well organizes the extensive amount of material that we can easily learn all we need to know to get caught up to modern-day Spidey!  A few of the characters, like Venom, have changed SO drastically in the past 15 years that you need book like this just to keep up!  We highly recommend this one, especially with the new Spider-Man film coming out soon...no better time to brush up on your friendly neighborhood webhead!

Where to Buy: Amazon.com