Superhero Comics

What can you learn from the world’s most successful companies? The Marvel Studios Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that enabled a struggling comic book publisher to parlay the power of myth and storytelling to become one of history’s most successful movie studios.

Welcome to Sector House 301, the isolated dumping ground for Mega-City One's every misfit and foul-up Judge. Nicknamed The Pit, the sector house holds many dark secrets and the discovery of one of them may have led to the death of Sector Chief Rohan. Sent to take over The Pit is Judge Dredd. Together with a small team of trusted Judges, he uncovers a trail of deceit and murder that leads to the very top levels of command. The only question is, will Dredd live long enough to bring the culprits to Justice?

In this insightful and provocative book, comics-industry veteran Danny Fingeroth explores the backgrounds of the most well-known superheroes and their creators—largely young American Jewish men from Eastern European backgrounds. These innovators include Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Will Eisner, and Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. In Disguised as Clark Kent, Fingeroth explores how the creators’ Jewish backgrounds helped make superheroes the most familiar popular-culture icons of all.

Avi Hirsch has always known his daughter was different. But when others with incredible, otherworldly gifts reveal themselves to the world, Avi realizes that her oddness is something more - that she is something more. With this, he has a terrifying revelation: Emmeline is now entering a society where her unique abilities unfairly mark her as a potential threat. And even though he is her father, Avi cannot keep her safe forever.

In this exciting prequel to the critically acclaimed Dane Curse, a pair of black capes are found dead on the floor of Wentorf Hall, mere inches away from the world’s largest diamond. Of course the cops think the pair killed each other over the heist. After all, everyone knows that the Vandenberg Coconut is a one size fits all motivation for murder. Everyone, that is, except for Dane Curse. But when the former villain turned PI takes the case he’ll discover that the truth has more sides than a diamond has facets. And in order to get to it Dane will follow a trail that leads through an ...

On several occasions, a half-dozen of Spider-Man's greatest enemies have banded together as the Sinister Six. Now, at the behest of a deadly benefactor known only as the Gentleman, the Chameleon has been tasked with assembling a new Sinister Six with the most ambitious scheme yet! Soon, he has recruited the Vulture, freed Electro and Dr. Octopus from prison, and been joined by the Gentleman's mysterious ward, Pity. That only leaves Mysterio, but the master of illusion has a plan of his own.

Their love must endure Hell to survive. Prince Malik Starsiene has proposed and wants to marry Amara on his home planet of Hell. The fresh truce between the Bleiten and the Triari may not be enough to protect Amara but the title of Princess of Hell will be. All she has to do is survive long enough to be crowned. Except Amara finds more resistance to her engagement than expected and must navigate not only the dangerous waters of the Bleiten Court but also the deadlier intricacies of Bleiten politics. Politics which are waged on the battlefield. Can the color-wielding superhero survive Hell ...

This second graphic novel in the New York Times bestselling The Last Kids on Earth series, now with over 5 million copies in print worldwide and an Emmy Award-winning Netflix Original series, includes brand-new Last Kids stories by Max Brallier.

Over the last 60 years, the Marvel superhero comic books have grown into a gigantic mountain in the middle of contemporary culture. They are the longest continuous, self-contained work of fiction ever created: over half a million pages to date - and growing. Thousands of writers and artists have contributed to it. Every schoolchild recognises its protagonists: Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men. And not even the people telling the story have read the whole thing - nobody's supposed to. So, of course, that's what Douglas Wolk did.

In this story from the novel, “SuperHero – Retirement”, a recently retired SuperHero still mourning the death of his long-dead life unexpectedly finds romance while shopping.

When the world's honey supply starts to drop and some of her old tech disappears, super student Bumblebee enlists her friends Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Poison Ivy, and Beast Boy to help her find out why. Is it a new villain, or someone from the past? With so much going on at Super Hero High, Bumblebee isn't sure how she's going to keep an eye on everything, but she's determined to do it with style and sting!

Professor X, the X-Men's founder and mentor, and Shi'ar Empress Lilandra have been forced to love each other from afar - he has to remain on Earth to lead the X-Men, and she must stay with the Shi'ar to run the empire. Now, Lilandra must turn to the X-Men for help against a threat to her domain - and possibly the Earth as well. Shi'ar scientists have learned of a creature that devours galaxies and is heading toward Shi'ar space.

A five-person special ops unit, composed of a diverse assortment of former Navy SEALs from all walks of life, are responding to a terrorist threat deep in the Caucasus Mountains when their mission goes south in a big way. Facing certain death and torture, they’re unexpectedly offered a Faustian bargain by the Devil himself, who grants them unearthly powers in order to send evildoers to Hell on his fiendish behalf. But “The Devil’s Quintet” do things their own way....

There's no way out of this game... The Towers have fallen, and the god they were built to destroy has come. He holds the power to change the world with less than a thought, and a traumatised, diminished humanity pleads with him in hope, and fanaticism. Rosetta is the only human, the only Advanced, to get close to this being, and even she cannot understand what it is he really wants. She can only try to guide him, and pray that she is doing the right thing. Meanwhile, Shade and his group of almost-heroes are hoping for a break, but they're not going to find one. They know they need to stop ...

The lives of six female superheroes and the girlfriends of superheroes. A ferocious riff on women in superhero comics. From the New York Times best-selling author Catherynne Valente comes a series of linked stories from the points of view of the wives and girlfriends of superheroes, female heroes, and anyone who's ever been "refrigerated": comic book women who are killed, raped, brainwashed, driven mad, disabled, or had their powers taken so that a male superhero's storyline will progress.

Using her powers of hypnosis and her raw sexuality, Hypnotica terrorizes and ravishes the women of Queensport. Even her heroic nemesis Mesmera is too busy as Hypnotica's brainwashed love slave to halt her reign of sexy terror. But when a playful game turns all of the women of Queensport into mindless submissives, Hypnotica will have to reckon with more action than she's ever seen before! With all 12 chapters of the first HYPNOTICA arc collected here, this book is one to read over and over again.

Sonny Forever, a teen foster child living in the slums of Irontown City, sees no purpose in his life. Constantly battered by bullies, he escapes into comic books where he lives vicariously through the superheroes he admires. So engrossed he is in these fantasies, he actually sees them floating in the sky and yearns to fly with them. However, an ominous shadow phantom warns him against seeking the truth about his real parents and the reason he was born. His foster mother tells him he’s special, that he’s a superhero in his own right, but he sees no way to prevail over the poverty, strife...

What would happen if a dog became a superhero? In this exciting middle grade adventure, Joe is a run-of-the-puppy-mill cocker spaniel who dreams of being special, but suffers with the curse of being average. He lives in the suburbs of Barksdale with his friends Elwood, a dopey mutt who looks like a genetic mishap, and Frank, a plump wiener dog. When the dogs devour heaping mounds of dog food that is laced with plutonium, their DNA evolves. Joe transforms into MegaDog, a superhero with a passion for funky music. Elwood mutates into Baywolf, a sleek, black wolf with a hip-hop attitude, and ...

Superman es el superhéroe más famoso de todos los tiempos y hace mucho tiempo que traspasó las páginas de los cómics para formar parte de la cultura popular. Este libro repasa todas sus adaptaciones al cine, desde la versión interpretada por George Reeves en Superman y los hombres topo hasta Batman v Superman, pasando, cómo no, por el mítico filme de Richard Donner con Christopher Reeve, sus secuelas, Superman returns y El hombre de acero, así como por otros intentos de llevar al hijo de Krypton al celuloide.

The world is still reeling from the devastation of the final battle between the world’s strongest metahumans. Empire City has been left in shambles as it struggles to rebuild. Overnight, the world’s metabands, mysterious bracelets that offer their owner’s superhuman powers and abilities, have all ceased working. Guilt ridden over his possible hand in all of this, the masked vigilante Midnight has hung up his cowl.