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Author
Publisher
America's Best Comics
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Set in futuristic Neopolis, where the residents all have superpowers and a colorful constabulary maintains order, The Forty-Niners is the prequel to the series set in 1949, when extrapowered humans from both sides of World War II relocated to a city new-built for them. Among them are 16-year-old ace pilot Steve Traynor, who flew under the name of Jetlad, and his former enemy Leni Muller, the Skywitch. Steve (who is to become Neopolis' police captain)...
3) Hit-Girl
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2018-
Language
English
Description
"HIT-GIRL IS BACK. The pint-sized Punisher-meets-Polly-Pocket has left America behind and set off to serve justice around the world. First stop: Colombia. A mother seeking vengeance for the murder of her child enlists Hit-Girl to destroy his killer, but Mindy has bigger plans for Colombia's most feared hitman."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
Having already killed the entire Marvel Universe, the Merc with a mouth takes aim at the most famous characters in classic literature: Moby Dick, Don Quixote, Tom Sawyer, Scrooge, Gulliver, the Three Musketeers, and Sherlock Holmes.
Author
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Witness the classic and tragic end of one of the greatest heroes of all time, Mar-Vell of the Kree, who became the Earth hero Captain Marvel! After dozens of battles on Earth and across space, and with the power of his Nega-bands and his all-knowing Cosmic Awareness, can Mar-Vell fare well in his battles with Nitro (the exploding villain who later sparked Marvel's super hero Civil War), the death-defying Stellarax and the seemingly dead Thanos?"--from...
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"EVERYTHING STARTS HERE! It begins at the dawn of the human race, and ends with a child's prayer! In between, empires fall, mysteries brew, secrets are revealed, quests are undertaken and legends are forged! All leading up to the dramatic return you've been waiting for - and one you've been dreading!"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Phonics comics volume 7, issue 2
Publisher
Innovative Kids
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A collection of Love and Rockets tales finds Penny Century acquiring super-powers at a terrible personal cost and rampaging through the galaxy pursued by a motley group of superheroes led by Maggie's girlfriend Angel.
11) Teeny Genie
Author
Series
Phonics comics volume 22, issue 1
Publisher
Innovative Kids
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
12) Wonder Woman
Publisher
DC Comics
Language
English
Description
"Heroic. Iconic. Unstoppable. Armed with her Lasso of Truth and imbued with the power of the gods themselves, Princess Diana of Themyscira--known to the world as Wonder Woman--is one of the greatest superheroes in history. But who is she...really? Not even Wonder Woman herself knows for sure. Diana's links to both the Amazons and the Gods of Olympus have been severed. Her memories are a tangle of contradictions that even her lie-detecting lasso cannot...
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The malleable Ms. Marvel continues her hero's journey as an enemy from her past begins targeting those closest to her - a challenge that calls into question everything about Kamala Khan. Not just as a super hero, but as a human being! Who can Ms. Marvel trust with everyone in Jersey City against her...and a new crimefighter moving in on her turf? Meanwhile, Bruno may be far away at a prestigious school in Wakanda, but adventure still finds him! And...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the rest of the Justice League are dead. The remaining heroes are left to protect the world from an onslaught of violent attacks by DC's greatest villains! Can the legacy heroes step out of the shadows of the classic heroes to form a new Justice League? And will that be enough to stop a darkness greater than anything they've ever faced from destroying everything?"--
16) Luthor
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Superman has been called many things, from the defender of truth, justice and the American way to the Big Blue Boy Scout. In Luthor, he is called something he has never been called before: a threat to all humanity. Brian Azzarello and artist Lee Bermejo--the acclaimed team who brought you the best-selling Joker--deliver a bold story in which readers get a glimpse into the mind of Superman's longtime foe.
Author
Series
Battling boy volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Aurora West, daughter of Arcopolis's last great hero, seeks to uncover the mystery of her mother's death, and to find her place in a world overrun with monsters and corruption.
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From the senses-staggering climax of 1984's original Secret Wars saga to the origin of Miles Morales, the new Ultimate Spider-Man, it's all been leading up to this. And Marvels' master planner, Jonathan Hickman, has long been planting the seeds for the story only he could write. The Ultimates encounter an enemy more powerful than the gods -- and Reed Richards is its leader! Doctor Doom deals wirth dangers from a universe he created! And the Illuminati...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2016-
Language
English
Description
"From the masterful minds of Grant Morrison (FINAL CRISIS, THE MULTIVERSITY) and Yanick Paquette (SWAMP THING, BATMAN, INC.) comes the most provocative origin of Wonder Woman you've ever seen--a wholly unique retelling that still honors her origins. For millennia, the Amazons of Paradise Island have created a thriving society away from the blight of man. One resident, however, is not satisfied with this secluded life--Diana, Princess of the Amazons,...
20) Silver Surfer
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]-
Language
English
Description
"Silver Surfer, lone sentinel of the skyways, is about to discover that the best way to see [the universe] ... is with someone else. Meet Dawn Greenwood, the Earth girl who's challenged the Surfer to go beyond the boundaries of the known universe-- into the strange, the new and the utterly fantastic! Who is the Never Queen? How is the universe's future tied into her very existence? And why is she trying to destroy the Surfer? Destiny itself trembles...
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