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Wizard: Jim Lee, Millennium Edition

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With Jim Lee's well-deserved, wide-reaching popularity, I'm a little surprised more people aren't writing reviews for this(!).
A 7-page interview/biography kicks this amazing book off; a fascinating summary of Lee's successful career. The 1st 3rd of the book mainly consists of previously published articles & interviews detailing just about everything we could need to know about this comics superstar's present & past. Details of recent DC projects seems to dominate, but Image & Marvel details are given too.

The 1st half of this volume finishes with random artwork & sketches, as well as a detailed checklist of Lee's entire body of work. Some of this artwork is pretty hard to find. Some of it's in pencil; some in ink; some in color; and still some in other media.

The 2nd half of this work is phenomenal: it's a collection of *every* cover, pinup, and poster Lee has drawn to date (2004)! Everything from Alpha Flight to Superman, and from independent comics to Heroes Reborn is displayed in full color. Designs for action figures, drawings from when he was a kid, finished posters & Wizard covers- all are included, reproduced at various sizes, on super slick, glossy white paper. His entire career in 250+ pages! It's highly recommended!

In short: Buying this book for the art alone, we're already getting more than our money's worth. The interviews detailing his amazing career seem like an extra special bonus. Now if I could only convince them to make a John Byrne, Millennium Edition! :)

Jim Lee Millenium Edition is a must have book!!! This book contains everything you have everything you wanted to know about comic book artist, Jim Lee. The book contains the following. Jim Lee's profile, A week in a life, Behind Jim Lee's Superman, Hush the Director's Commentary, Image: The True Hollywood story, Wildstorm A to Z, Wildstorm artists profiles, Wildstorm Alumni, Unfinished Business, private collections, Sketcbook, Jim Lee checklist, Gallery, and the last page, the evolution of Jim Lee. This book contains interviews,artwork,behind the scenes commentary and much more. This is definitly the Ultimate Jim Lee book to own! Highest Possible Recommendation!

I absolutely love Jim Lee, and helped put together the check list in the book, and this book has it all.

It has Jim's entire history in it and a checklist of every piece he has had a hand in. And the best part of this book is its gallery. It has the cover of every single comic Lee has ever done in it! From Alpha Flight to Xmen to his current Superman, every cover is in here! Its beautiful.

You cannot call yourself a Lee fan, or a real comic fan, if you dont own this wonderful book, from perhaps the most influential artist of the past 20 years.

Every Cover Jim Lee Had Ever Done Up To The Point Of The Books Publication. That Sentence Alone Should Make You Want To Purchase The Book If You Are A Fan, If Not Get It Anyway To Support A Great Artistic Talent. A Day In The Life Of Jim Lee, An Unpublished Punisher Yarn And An Extensive Sketchbook All Wrapped Up In Between A Couple Of Hundred Pages.

ok, two comments:

"Top it all off with an amazing cover featuring Batman with Wolverine and you have the ultimate official Jim Lee event..."

funny thing is that the cover is just a composite of two previously published images
"WOW! I have those two images of Batman and Wolverine separately! But ....now they're TOGETHER! Holy crap!"

and

"that only the editors of Wizard: The Comics Magazine could publish!"

The editors of Wizard would publish Rob Liefeld's feces, so that isn't really a reason to buy this book