If you are fairly new to the DC Comics multiverse this is the book for you. Just over one thousand two hundred profiles with a ton of background material and, of course, stunning, dramatic illustrations bursting out of the pages. What I really liked about the book is the way the publishers have crammed in all this information in very busy but controlled layouts. Worth saying also that the printing and paper are excellent (this quality puts to shame some other comic book publishers).
Plenty of the characters have been around for years and historical art is shown as largish thumbnails in 'On the record' panels, which appear on most spreads. Kept small because artwork from decades ago is no match for contemporary art created by today's software.
However, if you have the 2016 edition of this encyclopedia I don't think you really need this new edition. Both books feature, more or less, the same number of characters, the same excellent layouts which have been slightly changed for this new copy.
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