DC Comics Masks:

Nine Masks of DC Comics Heroes and Villains to Assemble and Wear

by Christos Kondeatis

Bulfinch Press, 60 pp., $25 (paper)

Masks are great liberators. In hiding your identity, they break the hold of social conventions and free you to do whatever you like: ridicule authority, flout laws, or put on tights and fight crime. The last is most pertinent to this elaborate activity book, which lets you feel the special release of masks as some of comics’ best-known superpeople. Artist Christos Kondeatis has built intricate 3-D faces for Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, and five villains for you to pop out and glue together. They look amazing, but fans of instant gratification, be warned: Each mask has more than 100 flaps, which must be meticulously glued into place to achieve the desired effect. Putting one together is like assembling an airplane model: It requires an eye for detail, several hours, and the patience of Job. But the result will make you the envy of your Super Friends.

This article appears in December 24 • 1999.

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