I really anticipated this book being a BIG fan of Steranko. I purchased the earlier tomes from Marvel reprinting Steranko's amazing Nick Fury tales. Marvel Visionaries: Jim Steranko reprints his incredible Captain America issues, a groundbreaking, if not short, horror tale from Tower of Shadows, an unexpected romance tale from Our Love Story, and several cover illustrations from various titles around that time.
Now the stories, illustration, and sheer verve on display here blows the mind. Being a young guy of 22, I see even now how a lot of Steranko's influence has seeped into and expanded the vocabulary of comics storytelling and art for my contemporaries. The Captain America issues are just so cinematic and steady in storytelling. I guarantee that the finale to the Cap story arc will leave you giddy with excitement and amazement, like a great action movie. The horror and romance stories are very much welcome as they are very difficult to find as originals and otherwise. So many of the popular comics creators of the last 20 years such as Michael Golden, Paul Gulacy, and Jim Lee readily admit that Steranko played a key part in their development as artists.
My only gripe with the book is that the coloring is sometimes off-putting, but not wholly awful. Steranko's techniques of color holds and otherwise should have held more than enough, even better with today's technology to keep the colors true.
Regardless, I highly recommend this volume, along with Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD and Nick Fury: Scorpio, as must haves for your comic collection and testaments to one of the most extraordinary creators to ever grace comics, Jim Steranko.