New Arrival: Nonfiction: Marvel, The Avengers Vault, by Peter A. David et al

Marvel, The Avengers Vault
Peter A. David, designed by Katie Benezra
ISBN: 9781626862999
Hardcover pop-art history book with lots of lose-leaf inserts and reference materials.

This was a fun browse through Marvel history.  I loved the design of the cover and of the book, but the fun of finding the little pages inserted randomly into the book was sadly ruined because we're a library, so we have to keep them all accounted for and noted.  

The book itself has a fun flow, but it's organized in a way that makes it a little difficult to reference if you were looking up specific information.  (There is no index, for example, and it could really use one.)  First we get a brief tour through the history of the Avengers, then a chapter each on the current big four: Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, and the Hulk, and then a final chapter about Avengers on TV or in movies.  There's even a roster of who was on the team when, and a breakdown of all the different major Avengers teams.

All of this of course in the current gaudy primary-color comics splash art style, with little sidenotes and bits of trivia sprinkled in.