The Big Book of Urban Legends (The Big book Series)

Number 3 in the ongoing 'Big Book of..' Comic anthologies, the Big Book of Urban Legends, contains just over 200 single page comics by different artists. Each comic depicts a well known urban legend. Legends are placed in tenuous groupings 'ghosts', 'auto-mobiles', 'Wild Kingdom', 'caught in the act', 'crimes and misdemeanour's' etc, and this is possibly the best way to organise such an eclectic selection of stories.
Printed in oversize format (slightly larger than A4 in the paperback version), this is a solid collection with a wide array of art from over 220 different artists. If you want a light comical read - for the tall tales people are prepared to believe is quite humorous - then this is one of the stronger anthologies from the show more 'Big Book series'.

Easy to read in one sitting, or to dip in and out of I really enjoyed it. I could easily see myself giving it as a gift to a non-comic reader to show them what else the comic / graphical novel format can do beyond mainstream superheroes. show less

I love this series - worth hunting through the shelves of your local(or online)used book stores.

Urban legends in Comic form