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| | encyclopedia of superheroes on film and television - book review for zone-sf.com |
 | | Having written books about Blake's 7, Doctor Who, BattleStar Galactica, Space 1999, and the films of John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper, Wes Craven, and Kevin Smith, author John Kenneth Muir is well grounded in the lore and minutiae of sci-fi and fantasy adventure. |
 | | Muir's comments on the superb Hulk movie are unfortunately dismissive, but he makes up for this sleight by sorting out a number of confusions over look-alike or sound-alike TV superhero programmes, and provides the most comprehensive section on The Six Million Dollar Man, though hardly completist, I've yet seen in print. |
 | | Of course, Superman, the mainstay of this book's entire subject, demands and gets a suitably expansive chapter-sized entry and, along with the write-ups for Superboy and Supergirl, this offers the most extensive coverage of DC Comics' veteran figurehead outside of those specialist single-character books. |
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