Review of
The Black Widow: Creating the Avenging
Super-Spy, The Complete Comics History, by Michael Mallory ISBN
9781608879823
Five out of five stars
Needed history on this complex figure
Over the course
of her history as a Marvel character, the Black Widow has undergone a great
deal of transformation. Born as a trained super-spy/assassin in the Soviet
Union when the Cold War was “raging,” she has undergone many iterations. While
she was injected with a super serum analogous to what made Captain America, she
does not have his full power and strength.
Through her
history, she has been a villain, a member of the Avengers, girlfriend of both
Bruce Banner and Alexei Shostakov and involved with SHIELD. This complex
history is difficult to follow and really does need a book of this size in
order to comprehend it.
If you are a fan
of the Black Widow and were like me in being unsure regarding the various
aspects of her life history, then this is the book for you. It explains in
detail her origins, transformations and experiences, both within and without
the Avengers and SHIELD.
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