Customer Reviews

The Comic Book Bible

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The Comic Book Bible is actually a, not the, comic book Bible. There are two other word ballon type comic book Bibles on Amazon.com. I have bought all three and had many children compare them. The Picture Bible by Iva Hoth is overwhelming the most popular artistic style with children, also the cheapest per page, and per word. The artistic style of The Comic Book Bible is preferred with some teenage girls and is cheaper if The Picture Bible is out of your range. You can get a good idea of the artistic style of this and the other comic Bibles by looking at the picture of the cover on Amazon.com. The Comic Book Bible is done in the style of humorous cartoons and is less realistic than others. While I suggest Hoth's you might also consider Heros of the Bible by Carolyn Larsen for teen and adult males. Tip, search for Heros of the Bible by author not title. Catholics may also like The Big Book of Martyrs, by John Wagner. One last point, comics have a powerful ability to grab an audience, children, teens, and adults. This makes them a great evangelical tool. If your children have reached the stage where they think picture bibles are to immature for them, but the real thing is to advanced a comic book Bible can be a very good buy.

THe only thing I didn't like about it is that the quoted verses are in King James. Kids wouldn't read KJ text. Each page has about 4 dialogs and the top of each page has a KJ verse base on the dialogs on that page. Each story ends happily which I like. I like comics, and so I like this one. I didn't find any errors with this one doctrinaly.

Nice, basic book. Good for parents to read to their non-readers, and also good for early readers to read to themselves. Good starter Bible. If your kids are a tad older and can read well, I recommend the Picture Bible. It is an awesome, comprehensive product. It manages to show and tell all of the stories truthfully without being gruesome. We decided on the Picture Bible for our 6-9-yr-olds. It offers a whole lot more for not much more money on Amazon. If we had a 3-5-yr-old, though, this Comic Book Bible would be fun to read to them.

I bought two copies of this for my daughters. My 11 year old didn't want to put it down! She has already read it cover to cover! My 9 year old has read some of it, but hasn't shown as much interest. She still prefers her story Bible. It may not be a true "Bible", but it's a step above story Bibles in that it contains actual scripture. The way I look at it, they are getting some of God's actual words while learning the general background on other topics. If it spurs their interest, then great! God's word will not return void--you'll always get something out of it!

I bought 2 of them for my grandchildren. I liked the fact that they were King James. The quality, however, was just AWFUL!!!!! I took them out of the packaging (we just received them) and proceeded to open the books and look them over......the pages just started falling out!!! The binding was so cheap I couldn't believe it!! I bought them from Christian Book Distributors.....they were brand new!!! I had to just throw them in the garbage. It would've cost more than they were worth to send them back and CBD's return policy does not cover return shipping. I was soooooooo disgusted. I cannot believe anyone would sell such poor merchandise!

A gift for a very special person and we were not disappointed. It came so quickly we were surprised and the condition was good. Thank you so much. Please consider this seller if you have a chance.

I was trying to think of a way for my 6 year old to get interested in the Bible, and a friend suggested an illistrated 'comic book' version. He loves this book and I'm pleased that I found a way to get him interested. It's a great time for us to cuddle up on the couch and read Bible stories together.

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I purchased this book in April 2010 for a lady in our adult Sunday School Class. Although she is 70 her mind did not develop beyond age 7. She can't read but this book calms her and helps her feel like a part of the class.
I read the other reviews before purchase. As they pointed out; if I was looking for something to read to my grandchild I would choose something else.

A wonderful creation for children! Rob Suggs took the stories of the Bible and put them into comic book form, making it a truly remarkable way for children to learn the Bible with out feeling bored. The pictures are drawn perfectly to coincide with the stories of the Bible and Rob Suggs uses the bubble features to show the characters talking. Along with this, he adds a bit of humor to make it even more enjoyable. This gets 5 stars and 2 thumbs up for a creative way to entertain kids at the same time as teaching them about our wonderful Creator.



If you have a child who finds trying to learn the Bible difficult or boring, I recommend you grab a copy of Rob Suggs' The Comic Book Bible, sit back, and watch them having a great time reading the Bible!!! My kids did

*Thank you to Barbour Publishing for providing me with a copy of this fun book for review*

affordable way to get kids into reading the bible has alot from both the old and new testiment. It is a great gift for kids at sunday school.