The classic story of a boy who makes his own rules and the small Missouri town where he and his friends experience the adventures of a lifetime. Filled with schoolyard pranks, buried treasures, spooky caves, secret gangs, and grave robbers, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is entertainment of the highest order. The clever schemes of its eponymous hero--from tricking his friends into completing his chores to sneaking into his own funeral--are the stuff...

Batchelor offers an eye-opening look at the life of Stan Lee, the man who created (with talented artists) many of history's most legendary characters. Becoming the editor of Marvel Comics as a teenager, and toiling in the industry for decades, Lee threw caution to the wind and went for broke, co-creating the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Hulk, Iron Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, and others in a creative flurry that revolutionized comic books for generations...

Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster, two misfit teens in Cleveland, were more like Clark Kent than Superman. Both boys escaped into the worlds of science fiction and pulp magazine tales. In 1934, they created the superhero, but it was four years before they convinced a publisher to take a chance on their Man of Steel in a new format--the comic book.

Provides an overview of the history of the X-Men comics by outlining the characters and their storylines, discussing heroes and villains such as Cyclops, Magneto, Havok, Jubilee, Bishop, Wolverine, and Maggott.

Describes the different kinds of comic books printed and offers suggestions as to why to collect them, provides a background on how to rate the quality of collectible comic books, and tells where to buy and how to store them.

Text and pictures describe the Superhero team, The Fantastic Four, their powers, their enemies, their allies, and the technology they use to fight evil.

When Super Heroes battle their foes they need to put their amazing powers into practice. Learn exactly what happens when our heroes come up against deadly enemies in the battle to fight crime and evil.

"Your favorite characters are now part of the Who HQ library! Wonder Woman--DC Comics' greatest female superhero--flies onto our What Is the Story Of? list. She is a founding member of the Justice League, a goddess, and an ambassador of the Amazonian people. Wonder Woman burst onto the comic book scene during World War II. For more than seventy years, she has been fighting for equality, power, and truth with her lasso of truth in one hand and her...