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Vintage Super Hero Chlldren's Books
Cindy and I discuss some of our favorite vintage children's books featuring Super Heroes, including Batman: From Alfred to Zowie, the Super Dictionary, and two of Marvel's Big Looker books on the latest Super Mates!
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The Super Dictionary is one of the greatest books of all time! I still have mine (and learn new words with it!). -
I have that Super Dictionary somewhere.sigpic WANTED: Boxed, Carded and Kresge Carded WGSHComment
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In hindsight, we may have been a bit harsh on the Super Dictionary. I didn't have the childhood nostalgia I had for the other books, so my adult cynicism colored my interpretation more. There are some odd things in that book, for sure, but I would have eaten it up with a spoon back in my younger years.
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Love the cover art on that Fantastic Four: The Island of Danger! book.Comment
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The art on those is just gorgeous. Marie Severin and Earl Norem...what's not to love? The FF and Spidey look iconic, yet real in those books.
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I bought the Super Dictionary at a comic con a few years back and it does bring back memories. I just bought the updated version for my nephew:
Super Heroes: My First DictionaryVisit my wiki site:
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My kids learned their ABCs with that same Batman your girl is reading. They loved it and used to ask to read it all the time.Mortui Vivos Docent
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Yep, my kids did too! After taking that picture, Dani asked me to read it to her again, even though she can read it now!
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Batman and Robin: From Alfred to Zowie! was one of the first books I picked up off eBay. Tom Gill did really nice art on that.Comment
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Those are pretty cool.
About the only non comic book super hero publications I had as a kid were the Big Little Books of Spidey, FF, Hulk, Batman and Superman, which were great.
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