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The Superhero Book: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Comic-Book Icons and Hollywood Heroes (Popular Reference)
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A fine companion volume using the same A-Z reference format

Good but not great

not what i expected for

Nice , but...

Got a comic fan in your life? Make his/her day with this one

The Superhero Book: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Comic-Book Icons and Hollywood Heroes (Popular Reference)
David A. Roach
Manufacturer: Omnigraphics
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Binding: Hardcover

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A fine companion volume using the same A-Z reference format.......2006-10-15

Gina Misiroglu works with David A. Roach on THE SUPERHERO BOOK: THE ULTIMATE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMIC-BOOK ICONS AND HOLLYWOOD HEROES, which provides a fine companion volume using the same A-Z reference format and surveying all significant characters in almost 300 alphabetically indexed entries. Together these are key references for any comprehensive cartoon or comic library holding, accenting histories with a peppering of color and black and white illustrations from source materials.

Diane C. Donovan
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Good but not great.......2006-06-14

Was it just me or did anyone else notice a lot of spelling errors in the book? Also under Greatest American Hero they called Robert Culp's character John Mackie and in the show he was called Bill Maxwell. Things like that bothered me and this is no way an "Ultimate Encyclopedia". They hardly touched on comic book characters like: Grendel, Whisper, American Flagg. Really a disappointing book.

not what i expected for.......2005-03-22

First of all i was looking for a book that describes each super heroe's style, character, super powers in detail, even i expected a scala or a chart showing his/her powers, intelligence, agility, dexterity out of say, 10 or 100 what ever. But none is available, just a brief explanation of how he /she is created, and etc. No description of his/her adventures, friends, the very popular speciality etc.

I bought this book with 2 other books "The comic book encyclopedia" (ron goulart) and "500 comic book villains" (Baron's production) and none of them satisfied me.

However only book which provides all superheroes with "pictures" is "The comic book encyclopedia" (ron goulart)this and the other book doesnt even provide picture for all characters but some mostly known ones.

i dont recommend this product for those who is familiar with the super heroes but to those who knows nothing about comics.

Nice , but..........2005-01-25

If you believe that you are getting a book where you will SEE illustrations of many, or even about 10%, of the superheros that there are info/articles on...think again. You may, or may not, read about your favorites and learn some interesting facts, but, you will not see them. Bizarre for a book on a very visual medium. As to the selection of superheroes and the (dis)proportionate length of some articles...well, call it author's choice...or bias. A tad light on the founding fathers, so to speak, of the 1940's. I am immediately selling mine.

Got a comic fan in your life? Make his/her day with this one.......2004-11-28

Their are other comic book encyclopedias out their. Some of them have flashier art (not that this doesn't) or higher page counts. But a when I read through this one I was impressed.

I challenged the book by looking for characters other than Spider-Man, such as MiracleMan and Phantom Lady and was pleased with the coverage they were given. Lots of nice tidbits and indepth coverage of many heroes including their crossovers into other media.

Buy it for the comic fan in your life.

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Fred Allen was the king of humor during radio's Golden Age. As a satirist and wordsmith, his telling phrases and takes on the foibles of daily life, as well as the events of his time, were as quotable then as they are now. Allen transformed popular comedy by lampooning news events, commercials, and big business. He set a direction followed by a number of entertainers, including Bob & Ray, David Frost, Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Garrison Keillor, Chevy Chase, Dennis Miller, and even Saturday Night Live. In place of situation comedies, slapstick, stock characters, or standard joke forms, Allen offered a thinking person's humor, delivered every week to 30 million Americans in his 17-year-long radio show (1932-1949). All the Sincerity in Hollywood showcases many of Fred Allen's previously published and unpublished letters, essays, radio scripts, and quips to create the best refresher course in laughs that survive the test of time.

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Going To Talk Back ?.......2007-06-08

This book is not a chronology of Fred Allen's life, but rather a selection of his greatest commentaries from throughout his long career. Included in the text is his priceless observation: "To a newspaperman, a human being is an item with the skin wrapped around it." As if that weren't awesome enough, the buyer of this book also gets: "California is okay if you're an orange."

Mr. Allen could make biting observations about journalists and politicians without offending devout Christian people like my older relatives. (They have regaled me with stories about his material.) Fred made biting comments while millions listened to him live, and parents didn't have to send their kids away from the Philco radio or the Zenith TV set. Fred never advocated negative behaviors for juveniles such as the premarital sex and drug use that Lennie Bruce recommended in the late 1950s.

I would like to see somebody read this book and then claim that anyone other than Fred Allen was the first thinking man's comedian in the United States. Can you do that ? Many latter day comedians (e.g. Father Guido Sarducci) agree with me that Fred Allen was the first such American artist. If you haven't read this book and you don't recognize his name, will you consider agreeing with us ? Or are you "going to talk back ?" (as Fred's sidekick John Doe used to say).

Another Allen sidekick was Senator Claghorn. He is in the book, too. What more can I say ?

A Perfect Advertisement for Augmenting and Republishing His Original Books.......2006-01-28

In ways that many (if not most) of his disciples down the generations still have yet to fathom completely, Fred Allen was his generation's most permanent and pungently elemental humourist, a first-class writer who never tired of refining and elevating his craft. Without vulgarity, he lanced America's fooleries and amplified her misappreciated fineries, often in the same slash. Most of what subsequent comic generations and their fans considered the cutting edge of those generations would have been impossible without him, though he himself might not always enjoy what his disciples wreaked on behalf of the art. And, as the selected letters even here should show, Mr. Allen had a quality that even his stickiest barbs could not long obscure: he was a genuinely warm, humane man, whose affection and friendship was probably coveted even more than his impeccable wit.

Ideally, the unpublished material included in this book would be augmented to republished editions of Mr. Allen's two memoirs (1954's "Treadmill to Oblivion," addressing the radio years that graduated him to his stature as the medium's most mordant satirist; 1956's "Much Ado About Me," an affectionately objective recollection of both his bittersweet New England childhood and his arduous vaudeville career, not to mention a splendid examination of vaudeville itself) and posthumous selection of letters (1965's "Fred Allen's Letters," whose original jacket art bequeathed the Hirschfeld caricature that announces this book). But until such justice is done, "All the Sincerity in Hollywood" re-introduces a man whose wit was too deep, too enduring, to leave him frozen in time as a mere ancient radio star.

The Joy of Rediscovering America's Forgotten Humorist.......2001-11-08

Fred Allen, the only satirical comedian of radio's golden age, is revealed as a true American humorist, in the pantheon with Thurber, lardner and Twain. This book contains a wide selection of his writings, clear-eyed, wsitty, biting, compassionate. Excerpts from his two meoirs have the quality of what Frank McCourt wrote 50 years later in Angela's Ashes. Allen, we see, was the father of contemporary comedy and his influence prevails today. Letterman, Carson, Bob & Ray, Keillor, Your Show of Shows, Sat. Night Live - all are arguably legatees of his original sparkling style. This is perhaps the most deeply funny book I've read in years and will bring joy to readers of all ages. And it's a perfect gift for young people to give to parents and in-laws who, if they remember, say, tyhe Dionne Quintupl;ets, will be thrilled to get to oknow the great wit Fred Allen again. If there were 10 stars, I would award them to this book.

All the Sincerity in Hollywood: Selections from the Writings of Fred Allen

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All the Sincerity in Hollywood: Selections from the Writings of Fred Allen
Fred Allen Stuart Hample
Manufacturer: Fulcrum Publishing 2001
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The Last Hero: A Biography of Gary Cooper
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The Last Hero: A Biography of Gary Cooper
Larry Swindell
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THE LAST HERO - A BIOGRAPHY OF GARY COOPER
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This book is useful for advance players........2002-07-20

Ok,
You must be at least 1500 and above to understand this book.

This book consists of several parts which will tell how to be a master.

The book are a bit old but really a useful one.

Former world champion wrote the book .

Advance players will love it.

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I will give a 5 stars but some parts are hard to understand and some are out-dated.

A Great Buy!.......1998-07-21

One of the many superb books written by IGM A.S.Suetin, "Three Steps" is a must have for any chess player. GM Suetin shared his many years of experience in chess with us, disclosing the nuances and techniques grandmasters employ in their search for perfection. GM Suetin in this book teaches the different ways a chessplayer can improve, the importance of diligience, thinking defects and much more. It is simply loaded with essential knowledge that no chess player can go without.

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Three Steps to Chess Mastery
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If not for the book, at least for the CDs........2007-04-26

The book comes with the CDs for the compiler. The software for Visual Basic is 100$ by itself, while the book gives it to you for free.

The book is better than the previous version. It has a few more examples, more indepth, and a lot of the errors have been corrected. All the examples worked in the compiler (which can be rare for many programming books). The book offers all the basic skills to start programming. It is a detailed book from elementary to intermediate programming. It was a great introductory book for my college.

Even though Visual Basic and the authors make coding simple, it seems that not all people are cut-out to be programmers. There isn't much programming simpler than this.

Expensive text with a vague introduction to VB.NET.......2006-05-09

It is not my nature to write a negative `book report', but this book (and the Advanced Programming Using Visual Basic.NET - by the same author(s)) does really not deserve the price. This text is full of poorly written vague explanations, the OOP terminology and coverage is watered down to bare minimum. The exercise section in this text do need more work to be understandable and to be more generic to work on the Visual Studio 2003 environment.
The code reviews in general are superficial and unorganized. The reader/student is presented with chunks of poorly explained material like in the database section for example, where very little detail is given on the how, why questions, that goes beyond the mechanics of clicking and dragging data base components.
There are a lot better texts available for a less price.
The "Visual Basic.NET Primer - by Jack Purdum", book is a great, clear introduction to programming and to Visual Basic.NET for far less price.

Great Buy.......2006-03-16

This is a great price for this product. It also makes VB easy to learn. The samples are great. I love this book and software.

EXCELLENT.......2006-03-10

I had to return my first one because the software set was missing but the customer service was the BEST and I got a new one right away. My e-mails were answered the same day and were very polite!

Quality entrey level VB book.......2005-12-31

Very well written text book on learning VB. The only problem I had was that the source code at the end of the chapter could have been presented in a different way. That is because I am a code junky; if you are into the concepts of programming, well then you might rate this at five stars. The included copy of VB with the book is worth the price alone. Buy this if you need to learn VB.NET or move up from older versions

Programming in Visual Basic. NET: Update Edition for VB. NET 2003 w/ 5-CD VB. Net 2003 Software Set

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A Stitch in Time: A Baseball Chronology, 1845-2002 written by the "Voice of the Astros" for over 25 years, Gene Elston, covers in detail the exciting, unusual, strange, and forgotten events of Baseball from 1845 to date.

This one-of-a-kind book details events from all areas of the game, including notable events in the major leagues, good coverage of the minor leagues, women in baseball, the Negro leagues, as well as behind-the-scene trades, scandals, machinations, and other highlights.

In 352 pages, Mr. Elston provides a wealth of baseball facts, insight, and rare photos that only a lifetime of involvement in the game can provide. Includes an introduction written by Tal Smith, President of the Houston Astros.

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Old Baseball.......2001-06-21

This book is great if you appreciate both the little guys along with the superstars that make baseball such a beloved game. Not only does it have some recent developments in baseball, but also bookmarks key happenings from the past that have evolved the game. A very readable book for the baseball lover.

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Explorations In Connected History: From The Tagus To The Ganges

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Explorations In Connected History: From The Tagus To The Ganges
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Young Inventors at Work! : Learning Science by Doing
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Young Inventors at Work! : Learning Science by Doing
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The private garden is a microcosm for everything that happens in the larger world -- ecological, social, personal and spiritual. With passion, warmth and understanding, the authors connect readers to simple personal actions -- tending the home garden -- then to larger issues, through the construction of an inner, personal garden with four gates: * Ecological Consciousness * Social Consciousness * Personal Consciousness * Spiritual Consciousness

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