Collectible GI Joe: An Official Guide to His Action-Packed World
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Collectible GI Joe: An Official Guide to His Action-Packed World

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  • EAN: 9780762405367
  • Manufacturer: Courage Books

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  • An illustrated guide to collecting, buying, selling, restoring and displaying the American GI Joe twelve inch doll and its accessories.

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  • Summary: GREAT GI JOE INFORMATION GUIDE
  • Comment: PACKED WITH GI JOE 60'S, 70'S AND MORE INFORMATION. TONS OF BEAUTIFUL PHOTOS. THE BOOK IS OUT OF PRINT, BUT YOU CAN STILL FIND THEM.
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  • Summary: This book's brilliance...
  • Comment: ...motivated me to create my own collectible books. Derryl's amazing tome was an inspiration to me and still stands out--along with Ben Holcomb's Mego Official World's Greatest Super-Heroes book--as the finest "toy book" ever made.

    Thanks to Derryl, action figure fans would have the bar raised for collectible books for DECADES to come.

    Gorgeous photos, pristine toys, and ingenious composition and layouts make DDP's uber-rare 11 1/2" Joes LEAP off the printed page. I couldn't imagine how much time it must have taken to shoot those diorama shots... weeks, months, years?

    Thanks, Mr. DePriest.

    -- Mark Bellomo
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  • Summary: The only GI Joe book you'll ever need
  • Comment: Derryl De Priest is THE MAN. This is an awesome book with fabulous photos and a treasure trove of information. Derryl was kind enough to autograph my copy too - sweet! If you played with GI Joe or Action Man as a kid then this book will bring back memories and probably enthuse you to dig out your old toys or lament that they were thrown out. You're never to old for GI Joe and this book is just the tonic if you think you are!!
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  • Summary: Unreal
  • Comment: I cannot praise this book highly enough. While I have most of the other G.I. Joe books, this is without a doubt my favorite. The pictures and level of care and detail are so perfect that they are the next best thing to owning the toys themselves. It's also a great reference tool for collecting and posing your own finds. I take it out and look at it constantly.

    Most of us will never have the time or money to put together a collection like this, but we can enjoy the fruits of the author's work via this amazing book. If you love G.I. Joe, even just a little, by all means BUY this book. For those of us who dreamed and longed for the pictures we saw in the old Sears "Wish book" catalogs, here is the dream!
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  • Summary: Great photos!
  • Comment: This book has a lot of great photos, mostly in color. The information is pretty good, but there are some areas that seem to have gaps in the narrative. I also would have liked more in-depth information relating to Hasbro instead of mostly the kind of information that you can get from a list. The book tells you when everything was released, what year, who did what, etc. But it lacks any human warmth, and there are really no warm stories of the original creators sitting together and working on GI Joe. Sadly, most of the GI Joe books totally ignore the human factor, aside from giving credit to the names of the people who designed, invented, patented, painted, funded, etc. The book is great for photos, and lots of interesting information. Sadly, it is not a warm, fuzzy book about a children's toy!

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