The Big Book of Losers (Factoid Books) [Paperback]

DC Comics (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: DC Comics (February 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563892537
• ISBN-13: 978-1563892530
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 0.4 x 10.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,228,656 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Paul Kirchner was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1952. He attended the Cooper Union in New York City. He has worked in the comic book field, writing and illustrating stories for High Times, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and other publishers. His illustrations have appeared regularly in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. He has done design and packaging work for several toy companies, including Mego, Coleco, Ideal, and Tyco. He illustrated all but one of Col. Jeff Cooper's books. In recent years he has illustrated mainly for the advertising industry and written books for Paladin Press.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A bit mean but funny anyhow, March 24, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The Big Book of Losers (Factoid Books) (Paperback)

I went to my local comics shop and saw the owner reading The Big Book of Losers. I asked to look at it, and I then know I must have it. The book is full of entertaining stories of people and bad ideas that were failures. It's quite entertaining reading the stories of people like the Dalton Gang, and Milli Vanilli, who deserve to be called losers. Unfortunately, some the people written about did not have the loser essence, but merely had some bad luck, or were held back by people who were more powerful and who were evil. These ones were not so funny. Overall, though, it is a good book, and worth reading

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Can't Win 'Em All, June 21, 2000

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Jeffrey Plotkin - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Big Book of Losers (Factoid Books) (Paperback)

"The Big Book of Losers" is the ninth in the Big Book series from Paradox Press. This volume tells you about historically bad luck, from General Custer to the Edsel to Milli Vanilli. Reading this book, you can't lose! Just be glad you're not them!

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating collection of stories, February 8, 2002

By 

Thom Cuddy (Silver Spring, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Big Book of Losers (Factoid Books) (Paperback)

A fantastic book! I bought this for one of my sons for Christmas, along with several other more print-oriented books. I'm not a diehard fan of books in comic format, but as I reviewed this upon arrival I was delighted to discover the depth of information provided. The wide variety of characters, the great expanse of historical periods covered and the different "genres" of loser subjects proved much more entertaining than I expected when I bought this book. Consider this one of the classier bathroom readers for the entire family!