With Marvel and DC taking the world by storm I get confused by all the story lines. I picked this book up and loved the illustrations! The colors of the pages struck my eye and I couldn't stop flipping the page. This is a great read for anyone who like me loves the movies but wants more backstory on the characters. The index made it easy to find certain characters that I was looking for and I loved that the table of contents broke up the book into years. It is a shorter novel but I loved that and it gave me all the information I needed about who the characters were and how they came to be in the comics. I would definitely recommend grabbing this book up or seeing if your local library has it.