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Teoksen Wonder Woman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told tekijä

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Tekijän teokset

Wonder Woman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told (2007) — Toimittaja — 64 kappaletta
Superman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told, Vol. 1 (2004) — Toimittaja — 51 kappaletta
Legion of Super-Heroes: 1050 Years of the Future (2008) — Toimittaja — 39 kappaletta
Superman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told, Vol. 2 (2006) — Toimittaja — 30 kappaletta

Associated Works

Batwoman: Elegy (2010) — Toimittaja, eräät painokset595 kappaletta
The Starman Omnibus, Volume Six (2011) — Jälkisanat — 71 kappaletta

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1972-01-11
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USA
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Wow - early Wonder Woman was even more sexist than I expected. Still, she was ahead of her time all the same. The last story is my favorite in the volume, and one of my favorite Wonder Woman stories in general.
 
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hopeevey | 1 muu arvostelu | May 20, 2018 |
This collection came out in 2008 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Legion of Super-Heroes. As a result, it contains stories spanning (most of) the full history of the Legion, from their first adventure to the first reboot. There are some weird omissions, though: nothing from the Five Years Later version (1989-94), nor anything but a cover from the "threeboot" (2004-09). That's a full fifth of Legion history not represented, and some key parts of it to boot. I've never read anything from either version, so just for my personal edification, it would have been nice to have.

Focusing on what is here, though, there's some good stuff. Of course, there's the first Legion story... which on reading it, I don't think I'd ever read the whole thing before, just synopses and excerpts. There's a lot of Silver Age goofiness here, of course, and though what I like about the Legion is nascent in that, I'm starting to realize that what I really like about the Legion doesn't really click until the Levitz/Giffen run, when the Legionnaires are finally written as real people, and not Silver Age assholes pranking each other. But I did enjoy seeing Saturn Girl, possibly my favorite Legionnaire, lay the smackdown on all the others in "The Stolen Super-Powers!"

It was also nice to see a number of historically important, oft-referenced stories, like the death and resurrection of Lightning Lad, or Superman's trip into the future of the future to meet the "Adult Legion" (Cosmic Boy's receding hairline is hilarious). The inclusion of "The Future Is Forever!" (which I already read in The Curse: The Deluxe Edition), on the other hand, is just dreadfully confusing out of context. To be fair, I'm not totally sure I got it in context; it seems to have been written for the hardcore Legion fan who's been there since Day One. A hard-hitting standalone like "The Day after Darkseid" seems like it would have been a better choice to represent the Levitz/Giffen era. On the other hand, to a parliamentarian like myself, getting to read the Legion charter is totally fascinating!

I also really enjoyed my peeks into the reboot Legion, who've I've previously encountered only in Legion of the Damned and the excellent Legion Lost. Here are three of their tales: their very first issue (which I really liked), a short story of the Legionnaires reflecting on Superman (it felt very Elliot S! Maggin to me), and a glimpse of the Legion's reunification after Legion Lost. These were all really solid comics that seem to make the Legion work for an audience of newbies and oldies alike; I look forward to reading more from this era someday.

So overall, a decent primer on Legion history, with only one "bad" inclusion. Swap out the overly-long "The Future Is Forever!" for a different Levitz/Giffen tale, a 5YL tale, and a threeboot tale, and this book would have been perfect.
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Stevil2001 | Nov 6, 2015 |
An interesting look at how Wonder Woman has evolved through the years. The stories written in the 1940s by William Moulton Marston are full of allusions to bondage and submission. In the stories from the 1950s the main plot device is "Will Wonder Woman get married to Steve Trevor?" One of the stories from the late 1960s has Wonder Woman's alter ego Diana Prince revamping her look so she can infiltrate the hippy subculture. Finally, in the stories from the 1970s to today we see the strong, independent Wonder Woman that we all know and love. These stories are truly great and they show the changes in the character of Wonder Woman and the changes in how American society views women through the decades.… (lisätietoja)
 
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craso | 1 muu arvostelu | May 19, 2007 |

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Alex Ross Cover artist, Illustrator
Andy Lanning Illustrator, Inker
Dick Giordano Illustrator, Guest Artist
Curt Swan Illustrator, Penciller
Bob McLeod Illustrator
Mike Sekowsky Illustrator
Ross Andru Illustrator
Mike Esposito Illustrator
H. G. Peter Illustrator
Phil Zupa Illustrator
José Delbo Illustrator
Lynda Carter Introduction
Paul Dini Author
Dave Hunt Illustrator
Ron Boyd Inker
Kurt Schaffenberger Guest Artist
John Forte Artist
Joe Staton Guest Artist
Frank Giacoia Guest Artist
Olivier Coipel Penciller
Mark Waid Contributor
Jack Abel Inker
Dave Cockrum Guest Artist
Keith Giffen Penciller/Co-Plotter
Jerry Siegel Contributor
Jim Shooter Contributor
Mike Grell Artist
Otto Binder Contributor
Paul Levitz Introduction
James Sherman Penciller
Dan Adkins Guest Artist
Edward Hamilton Contributor
Stuart Immonen Penciller
Dan Abnett Contributor
Howard Bender Guest Artist
Tom McCraw Contributor

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