Super Mario Adventures

Got it for a great price. Bright, colorful and funny. Great gift for Mario fans young and old and families.

When I was a teenager, I managed to come across the original volume that collected these 13 Nintendo Power comics into a single volume, and I fell in love with it. Unfortunately through many moves in my adult life I lost that copy and replacing it I discovered would be grossly expensive as it was out of print. Lo, to my surprise and excitement I learned about this re-print and delightfully jumped at the opportunity to own it once more. While the cover art for the book has changed from the first printing, the comic art inside is just as crisp and colorful as I remember. The story is charming and delightfully brings to life the Super Mario World era Mario in an excellent original adventure that is full of charm, humor, and an incredible amount of fun references to the games themselves. This is most definitely the definitive Super Mario comic to experience, as the characters leap off the page and give you an amazing fun experience, and feels 100% faithful to it's source material, you never once feel as if something doesn't belong. The story itself is framed in the classical Mario plot, with the Mario Bros. going to Princess Peach's castle to do some plumbing work for a big party, only to have King Koopa, Bowser himself show up and announce his intent to Marry the Princess or he'll turn her subjects to stone. Mario and Luigi jump into action and go to try and stop Bowser, and along the way go through several fantastic and familiar locations like the Mushroom Kingdom Castle, A Haunted House, Koopaling Tower, Dark Forests, and even Koopa's Castle. Along the way meeting a slew of fun Mario characters, Yoshi, Toad, The Koopa Kids, and tons of Mario enemies like Goombas, Koopa Troops, Caterpillars, Thwomps, Reznors, Piranha Plants, Magikoopas and several more. The story plays out over 12 chapters, each one about 8 mutli-panel pages, and there's an additional Bonus chapter at the end with a new story based off Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins, showing the relationship between Mario and his evil counterpart Wario. This is a great comic that's easy to read for younger readers, and will delight Mario fans of all ages. I highly recommend it. In addition to this fantastic comic, I would also greatly recommend The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past graphic novel which also released originally in Nintendo Power and is collected in a single volume by the same publisher.

Seriously one of my son's favorite gifts from his 7th Birthday!! A winner!!

Awesome read for anyone familiar and unfamiliar with the Mario world. Great art, funny and engaging characters and story, lighthearted tone with a nice balance of seriousness. One of the few great adaptations of video games into a storytelling medium. Anyone looking for something fun and interesting can enjoy, not exclusively for kids and teens. Thank you, Viz, for reprinting this (although I wish they would've used the original print's cover instead of this cheap one). Looked everywhere for this. Nintendo, this is how you translate video game stories well. My one complaint is that it came in a fragile envelope instead of a nice, sturdy package. But that's not the book's fault.

This comic book / graphic novel has great images and has a fun story line for kids. It's humor and reading level is perfect for a 3rd-5th grader. The cover is sturdy and the pages are a good quality. We checked it out from the library and loved it so much that we now have our own copy!

Fun, fast-paced read that brings the world of Mario to life beyond the screen ... easy for kids to stay engaged from start to finish. The illustrations are colorful and expressive, perfectly capturing the characters everyone loves.

I read these back in the Nintendo Power magazine when I was a kid and loved them then. I still can remember just about every single pane and line and they bring a great nostalgia trip. I bought these to share with my son who is just learning to read and loves Mario (and it can be hard to get him to read with me so these were perfect!). We had so much fun reading them. So much of the humor went over my head when I was a kid, but now as an adult I was laughing out loud at half the stories. And it contains a cross-dressing Luigi section that is a real gem and isn't inappropriate for kids or offensive to modern sensibilities, but is just light-hearted good fun. Kids and adults will love these high quality comics with great stories and great artwork.

My 4-year-old son loves it, he is actually trying to learn how to read this book despite it being much above his age level for reading.

Es un cómic en inglés con aventuras de Super Mario. Ha sido para una niña de 9 años, muy fan de los personajes de Super Mario. El nivel de inglés está bien para esa edad. Me ha pedido más como éste. Me ha parecido adecuado para ejercitar el idioma. Recomendado

HO REGALATO IL LIBRO A FUMETTI AL MIO NIPOTINO,LUI PARLA MOLTO BENE L'INGLESE E LO HA MOLTO APPREZZATO. NON AMA MOLTO LEGGERE MA QUESTO LO HA ENTUSIASMATO. PER CHI DEVE ESERCITARSI CON LA LINGUA è CONSIGLIABILE

Hay muy pocos libros de aventuras de Mario Bros, este le encanto a mi hijo

Meu filho amou

A modern reprint of the popular comic books about Mario who is as popular as ever these days! I bought it for my 8 year old grandson for Book Week at school. He was dressed as Mario of course!