Non-Fiction Book Review - 'Marvel Fearless and Fantastic!: Female Super Heroes Save the World' by Sam Maggs, Emma Grange, Ruth Amos, Various, Kelly Thompson (Foreword)

A fun and colourful info book containing one-page details (yeah, admittedly not nearly enough, but still) about each of the various sorts of superheroines to have come out of Marvel. A few I'd never even heard of, and a few more I'm pleasantly surprised ended up here, like Mary Jane Watson! She deserves the spotlight and appreciation, alongside Pepper Potts, Nadia Van Dyne, Mockingbird, Ironheart, Dazzler and Singularity.

No predominantly-known villainesses are included, such as Mystique, Emma Frost, Lady Deathstrike, Hela, Psylocke, and Black Cat (the latter two not so much, being more antiheroines..?). Sadly, Angela (Aldrif Odinsdottir), Domino, Rachel Summers, Cassanda Lang, Elektra, Polaris, Nebula, X-23 aka Laura Kinney, and most of the female New Mutants are not included in the book. But most shocking is the absence of Invisible Woman aka Susan Storm, who is in fact Marvel's first ever superheroine. What the actual hell there!

A few heroines being placed in either the Determined, Daring, Compassionate and Curious segments of the book are rather iffy, too. All of the fantastic and marvellous ladies and girls possess all of these qualities to some degree - the author says as much in the introduction - and the creative decision to prioritise one over another when it comes to certain characters isn't always accurate, or true to who they are. Like, I'd put She-Hulk in either the Determined or Daring chapters (like there's much difference between them anyway) - she's not merely a 'Curious' type!

But regardless, 'Marvel Fearless and Fantastic!: Female Super Heroes Save the World' is a great tome for any superheroine fan.

My everlasting, fangirl favourites are Captain Marvel, Spider-Woman/Gwen Stacy, Ms. Marvel, Valkyrie (Brunnhilde), Nico Minoru, Jane Foster, MJ Watson, Squirrel Girl, Shuri, She-Hulk, and the criminally underrated and overlooked Kitty Pryde! Follow-up faves are Storm, Hellcat, Gertrude Yorkes, Mockingbird, Rogue, Jean Grey, Pepper Potts, Singularity, Karolina Dean, Nadia Van Dyne, and Ironheart.

Final Score: 4/5