Marvel: The Avengers Vault

by Peter A. David

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Captain America, The Mighty Thor, The Invincible Iron Man, and The Incredible Hulk! These are the Marvel Avengers that have captured our hearts and imaginations as heroes likely and unlikely, and too magnificent to be true. Learn the history of these fictional icons with Marvel's The Avengers Vault, a guided tour through the union of "earth's mightiest heroes and heroines," led by award-winning author and Avengers insider, Peter A. David. The book includes a thorough overview of each of the four most prominent Avengers and introduces a myriad of other characters from the Winter Solider to Fandral the Dashing, Hogun the Grim, Edwin Jarvis, Black Widow, Hawkeye, and many more. Covering everything from the release of the first Avengers comic in 1963 to the blockbuster movies of today, Marvel's The Avengers Vault even contains removable reproductions that include Captain America's Sentinels of Liberty membership card, specialty original art by Jack Kirby, early drawings of Iron Man, and a complete Marvel mini-book. A treasure trove of Avenger moments and memorabilia, this set is perfect for avid comic enthusiasts and newbies alike.… (more)

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Peter A. David's Marvel: The Avengers Vault examines the histories of Avengers members Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, and the Hulk as well as the history of the Avengers title and the various teams in other media. David, an author on The Incredible Hulk and other Marvel titles, has done extensive research, combining a thorough reading of the comics themselves with interviews or published memoirs from the characters' creators and writers. This volume also includes reproductions of character posters, house advertisements, and more for each section. Readers will find this a useful compendium to help sort and organize 50 years of comics history, much like Tom DeFalco's Marvel Chronicle. Newcomers to the title or those who got interested due to the films and want to see where it all began will likewise enjoy this tome. (

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DarthDeverell | Feb 3, 2018 |

Really great incorporation of graphics and history of some of the original Avengers. David does an impressive job of summing up a rather confusing amount of changes made to each character throughout time. The text is humorous and at times a bit snarky (if he didn't have such an impressive number of comics with his name on them, you'd think he hated comics or something) regarding all of the transformations and weird happenings of the Marvel universe. Each character chapter also includes enclosed replicas of artwork, which is very neat.

While I personally would have liked to get more information on some of the female Avengers, such as Wasp, one of the founding members, this is less a criticism of the actual book and more a criticism of female representation in comics. Female origins come up in some chapters such as Black Widow (that's pretty much it), but understandably it is difficult to dedicate a whole chapter to a character who never had a self titled comic series.

Overall an interesting read with plenty of great art and quite a bit of information. (

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CareBear36 | Jun 22, 2015 |

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Captain America, The Mighty Thor, The Invincible Iron Man, and The Incredible Hulk! These are the Marvel Avengers that have captured our hearts and imaginations as heroes likely and unlikely, and too magnificent to be true. Learn the history of these fictional icons with Marvel's The Avengers Vault, a guided tour through the union of "earth's mightiest heroes and heroines," led by award-winning author and Avengers insider, Peter A. David. The book includes a thorough overview of each of the four most prominent Avengers and introduces a myriad of other characters from the Winter Solider to Fandral the Dashing, Hogun the Grim, Edwin Jarvis, Black Widow, Hawkeye, and many more. Covering everything from the release of the first Avengers comic in 1963 to the blockbuster movies of today, Marvel's The Avengers Vault even contains removable reproductions that include Captain America's Sentinels of Liberty membership card, specialty original art by Jack Kirby, early drawings of Iron Man, and a complete Marvel mini-book. A treasure trove of Avenger moments and memorabilia, this set is perfect for avid comic enthusiasts and newbies alike.

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