Don't get me wrong, I am a great appreciator of Wally Wood's art, but this sketchbook is just that, rough sketches. If you thought you might see some unused covers, or detailed drawings that Wood just did for pleasure, there are a few, but not much. Most of these sketches are pretty bare bones, just Wood scratching out some ideas, and many of the drawings have hardly any intrinsic interest at all. Though there are some good drawings here, as well as a lot of character design sketches that are fairly fleshed out. There are lot of character designs for trading cards. There is also some of his more commercial work, including a series of lunchbox designs. If you a completist, than you will like this book. The most interesting drawings to me were the ones Wood did in his youth, not just because they were the most complete, but because you can see the enormity of his talent even then.
The book does have some good interviews, including a rare one with Wood himself. The editors unfortunately chose to put the interviews on the margins of the pages, the book is not very big, about the size of a comic, so the art is squeezed into the same space as the text. The sentences are very short, making for choppy reading. An odd choice, and one that does not serve the art, or the text. There are some good drawings here, but there is mostly rough sketches, character studies, doodles and layouts - alongside early works of a young genius.