Justice League: The Animated Series Guide

If you like the animated series, you'll love this book. You'll find every character on every page, every character of the Justice League and Injustice Gang. It even has a few photo shots from the series. You'll find information of both the animated show and comics. There is data on parts from the animated show like the League itself, the Injustice Gang, Lex Luthor and more. From the comics, there's a group of beings from space who had the same powers as Superman, Chronos and the Cold Warriors who consisted of Mr.Freeze, Captain Cold, Killer Frost and other iced based foes. There is also info on characters who were in the comics such as Adam Strange, Aquaman, The Atom. The only thing that wasn't included was the Thangarian invasion of Earth and some other things form the animated show. Most of it seems to have been based on the comics rather then the animated show. Still it's an interesting book and it's good for young readers and newcomers to Justice League, whether it's the animated show or comics.

Jason Hall's Visual Guidebook to the animated Justice League is colorful and fun. Tykes should like it. Like all the DK books, great care has been taken in chosing the captions and accompanying text. It's a great way to introduce the younger readers to the world of the Justice League, though I would have waited a few years until the Justice League Unlimited run had been completed, so the book had a great amount of stories to draw fun. It also goes the extra mile with some pages on Aquaman, the Atom, and Adam Strange. A few flaws for the completist out there. The info on Hawkgirl is somewhat inaccurate after the revelations in the second season finale, "Starcrossed," the panals are mostly taken from the comics rather than the animated series, and some "fun" pages like a detailed blueprint of what goes where in the Watchtower might have given the little ones a bit more material to chew on. Again, some material on other characters such as Metamorpho, Darksaid, Dr. Fate, would have been great. Still, it's fun for what it is. Hopefully DK will produce a few more of these in the years to come.