Saturday, December 09, 2006

Comic Report: The Very Best of Marvel



Another Half Price Books find, this 1991 graphic novel has a selection of Marvel's famed writers and artists picking their favorite stories.

The FF vs. Doom, Daredevil vs. Namor, The X-Men vs. Magneto -- for the most part these are classic smackdowns. A Fantastic Four story focusing on The Thing offers a nice counterpoint, and an early Spider-Man story where he crashes a party and battles the Human Torch is just fun.

A redone origin for Thor was a nice historic issue, but I'll stick with the Norse god version. But all all good, solid stories. Of course they are -- they're the "very best"!

A nice peek into Marvel's past.

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