Brian Cronin has collected some of the comic book stories,
legends, rumors, and myths that he has been exploring for years on his blog and
collected them all into one book.
I was thinking of this book as a list of comic book rumors
and the truth about them. That is not
exactly the format that this book takes.
It reads more like a history of the major comic book companies and how
various characters and plot points came about.
So most of the time I didn’t know what the myth was he was responding
to. And I do think that Cronin uses exclamation
points (!!!!) more often than the facts warrant. Nothing is quite that exciting. But that doesn’t mean that the information was
not interesting. I’ve never looked into
it much before myself so most of the information here was new to me. Not only do you learn why they came up with kryptonite
and why Batgirl was introduced, and many other tidbits but you also learn about
the crazy comic book politics. The
fighting and the way stories were changed around to fit with movies or TV shows
and such and the battles over the rights to use certain names and terms. (Hulk
Hogan had a run-in with Marvel about his name.) Knowing all the weirdness that went on behind
the comic books does not make them less fun to read. In fact I think it might make them more fun. You, of course, have to be a comic book fan
to care about any of the information in this book but if you are I think you
will find something here for you.
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