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Greg McPhee
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Which one of these series do you guys prefer? I'm pretty torn. In terms of character references for artists OHOTMU gives simple illustrations as a good guide; but Who's Who gives us some great pin up art by great artists. In terms of info, I think Who's Who is better when it comes to describing powers and abilities short bursts to let you know what a character is capable of. OHOTMU tries to go overboard on the science of the characters, and apply them to the "real" world. Character info is split 50/50 in both cases, but I prefer Who's Who overall.
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Matt Reed
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Neither. I've never been a fan of these types of books. I prefer to get my information from reading the stories rather than a D&D-like reference manual that categorically defines all powers using a rather arbitrary scale.
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Knut Robert Knutsen
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I liked the loose-leaf Who's Who with pin-ups by great artists on one side and the text pieces on the other. Who cares if the text pieces are annoying when they're facing the wall anyway?
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Peter Martin
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OHOTMU. When the deluxe version came out, it was perfect for me. I was 10 years old and heavily getting into the Marvel Universe. And I loved those JB covers. Nowadays, I'm more inclined to agree with Matt Reed's view though.
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Brian Miller
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Every word of Peter's post is my answer, as well. Good job, Peter!
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Tim Farnsworth
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Was absolutely enamored of the OHOTMU growing up. Kids have some particular mania for categorizing things by power levels (see also Pokemon, Dragonball, the Marvel trading cards, etc), but I also just loved seeing all the obscure heroes and all the cool art. It was neat to be able to see, say, Ares show up in a comic, and be able to look him up for more info on his role in the Marvel Universe. Who's Who I was somewhat less into, maybe because it was less quantifiable about its powers and head less-detailed entries. I still collected all of them, though. As with OHOTMU, loved the art, loved learning the obscure characters.
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Greg McPhee
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The 1990 - 1992 Who's Who Series was my favourite mainly for the gorgeous art. Some of my favourites from it: Hmmm......didn't seem to upload the images....
Edited by Greg McPhee on 03 July 2010 at 12:11pm
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Paulo Pereira
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OHOTMU was my intro to Marvel Comics, so I'd go with that choice. Since I've read far more Marvel than DC, I'd go on that principal alone.
Edited by Paulo Pereira on 03 July 2010 at 12:13pm
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Greg McPhee
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I'll try again: 
Superman by Jerry Ordway 
Batman by Norm Breyfogle 
Wonder Woman by George Perez
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Paul Kimball
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I love both of these books but prefer the Marvel guides by far. I know a lot of
folks on this board don't like them as they feel the put down rules on
characters but I loved them. My first introduction to a lot of marvel
characters was in these books, it made me want to read the original stories
so in that sense I think the guides are good springboard for new readers.
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Greg McPhee
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The Joker by Brian Bolland 
Green Lantern by Pat Broderick
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Tim Farnsworth
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Things I obsessed over in the OHOTMU: *The quasi-3D map of the Nine Realms *Kevin Nowlan's style of art on both the aliens and vampires *All the great action scene "clips" they took from Kirby and Byrne *The hotness of The Enchantress and Lorelei, per Walt Simonson *Ares's costume design *The technical drawings of Hawkeye's arrows *And of course, how many tons my favorite heroes could lift (press) :)
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