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A review by utsavbansal93
Slugfest: Inside the Epic, 50-Year Battle Between Marvel and DC by Reed Tucker
3.0
Going through the various eras of the Marvel-DC rivalry, the book seemed to start out strong, particularly till it reached the 80s. Post that however, it seemed like a lot of the ideas and analysis started being repetitive and the sources to make the claims became increasingly scattered, and especially by the time we reached the present (2010s in the book), much of the speculation was undifferentiable from any of the dozens of self proclaimed pundits talking about comic book movies online on twitter.
The latter deficiencies do not wholly take away from the initial goodness, but it did make me suspect if whether I enjoyed the earlier part more because I personally had less knowledge about the actual going ons of the era and thus any information given to me seemed to be the truth. I however choose to believe that given the more extensive list of sources that the author pulled from and multiple direct quotes that it makes sense that the 60s were what the author was able to research and then coalesce together well the best.
The latter deficiencies do not wholly take away from the initial goodness, but it did make me suspect if whether I enjoyed the earlier part more because I personally had less knowledge about the actual going ons of the era and thus any information given to me seemed to be the truth. I however choose to believe that given the more extensive list of sources that the author pulled from and multiple direct quotes that it makes sense that the 60s were what the author was able to research and then coalesce together well the best.