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The DC Comics Encyclopedia

    (DK)
™ and © DK Publishing Inc.

When Alex Ross does the wraparound cover for your book, you know it has to be good. Phil Jimenez, and the staff at DC have added yet another “must have” to the comics collectors’ book shelf. The DC Comics Encyclopedia is remarkably complete. With access to the archives, they have dug deep, and mined gold!

With encyclopedias, the temptations are to only highlight the most popular and well-known characters and information, to overwrite those entries, and to ignore the lesser known. But, Jimenez has resisted those ideas. Consider the following entries: Alias the Spider, Bibbo, the Captain Marvel family, Slam Bradley, Captain Compass, Congorilla, Golden Gladiator, and Hop Harrigan. Fairly insignificant in the DC universe, yet they are all here.

Artwise, DC has included an incredible array of talent, and provided appropriate illustrations. With art directly from the original comics by the Golden Age greats to art by today’s best known illustrators, DC’s library is full of Gold, and this is just a taste!

— Tim Lasiuta
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  • HC 1
    Hardcover #1
    Cover: $40.00
    W: Phil Jimenez, Robert Greenberger, Scott Beatty, Daniel Wallace
    350 pages; And eye and hair color of the superheroes or supervillains. Special abilities and superpowers are also listed along with ample cross-references to other comic characters or superleague affiliations; Etc.); Height; Occupation; Real name; Status (hero; Such as the L.E.G.I.O.N. cosmic peacekeeping force.; This copiously illustrated encyclopedia chronicles more than 1,000 DC Comics characters from the 1930s to the present. Arranged alphabetically; Villain; Weight
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  • HC 1-2
    Hardcover #1 - 2nd printing
    Cover: $40.00
    W: Phil Jimenez, Robert Greenberger, Scott Beatty, Daniel Wallace
    And eye and hair color of the superheroes or supervillains. Special abilities and superpowers are also listed along with ample cross-references to other comic characters or superleague affiliations; Etc.); Height; Occupation; Real name; Status (hero; Such as the L.E.G.I.O.N. cosmic peacekeeping force.; This copiously illustrated encyclopedia chronicles more than 1,000 DC Comics characters from the 1930s to the present. Arranged alphabetically; Updated and expanded upto Infinite Crisis; Updated and Expanded, 400 pages; Villain; Weight
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  • HC 1-3
    Hardcover #1 - 3rd printing
    Cover: $40.00
    W: Matthew K. Manning  ·  A: Carlo Pagulayan
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  • HC 1-4
    Hardcover #1 - 4th printing
    Cover: $40.00
    W: Matthew K. Manning  ·  A: Carlo Pagulayan
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  • HC 2
    Hardcover #2
    Cover: $40.00
    W: Scott Beatty, Robert Greenberger, Phil Jiminez, Nick Jones, Daniel Wallace  ·  A: Carlo Pagulayan
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