500 Comic Book Villains

by Mike Conroy

Book Overview

Here come the heels & hoodlums! The stars of this entertaining rogues' review include "Batman's" Joker, "Dick Tracy's" Flattop & Pruneface, "Flash Gordon's" Ming the Merciless, "Spider-Man's" Green... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764129082
• ISBN13: 9780764129087
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.1" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Comic Book

I was very satisfied with the book, it was just what I was looking for and arrived in great shape and on time.

Resourceful

I purchased the books for resources and information in a genre I don't much about. The books had all the information I needed and more. And my younger son is reading it also.

A guide that is useful for anyone who buys comics regularly

Mystified by the multitude of arcane characters who have come out of the DC Universe woodwork during its latest "Crisis," I was pleased to find this book in Cody's, a bay area bookstore. So many villains have become heroes over the years that I have so far been able to identify 32 characters I had never noticed before. Expanded essays have been written about major characters, such as Marvel's Galactus and DC's Sinestro. Highly recommended.

Perfect introduction to villainy

I know a bit and a dabble about comic book villains. But not as much as I liked. So I figured 500 villains would be a goodly amount of knowledge. No you're not going to get power charts and really rather silly comparisons as to which pajama clad evildoer has a slightly stronger superstrength or laser vision. This gives you a run down of a HUGE number of villains, some I've never heard of, and probably never will again. Few complaints to be had, except that its rather silly to have a picture of Fin Fang Foom on the back and not have him featured anywhere. It has an index so you can trace out anyone you do know, and has an excellent article on Hitler, or as the book describes it, The Real World Supervillain.