Download or read book Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Masked Heroes written by Nickelodeon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and published by SFI Readerlink Dist. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are back in action fighting evil in their city and they are taking kids along for the ride. This awesome storybook comes with a blue face mask just like Leonardo's so readers can feel like they are one of the gang. Sure to spark imaginative playtime!

Download or read book The Superhero Reader written by Charles Hatfield and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from Will Brooker, Jeffrey A. Brown, Scott Bukatman, John G. Cawelti, Peter Coogan, Jules Feiffer, Charles Hatfield, Henry Jenkins, Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence, Gerard Jones, Geoff Klock, Karin Kukkonen, Andy Medhurst, Adilifu Nama, Walter Ong, Lorrie Palmer, Richard Reynolds, Trina Robbins, Lillian Robinson, Roger B. Rollin, Gloria Steinem, Jennifer Stuller, Fredric Wertham, and Philip Wylie Despite their commercial appeal and cross-media reach, superheroes are only recently starting to attract sustained scholarly attention. This groundbreaking collection brings together essays and book excerpts by major writers on comics and popular culture. While superhero comics are a distinct and sometimes disdained branch of comics creation, they are integral to the development of the North American comic book and the history of the medium. For the past half-century, they have also been the one overwhelmingly dominant market genre. The sheer volume of superhero comics that have been published over the years is staggering. Major superhero universes constitute one of the most expansive storytelling canvases ever fashioned. Moreover, characters inhabiting these fictional universes are immensely influential, having achieved iconic recognition around the globe. Their images and adventures have shaped many other media, such as film, videogames, and even prose fiction. The primary aim of this reader is twofold: first, to collect in a single volume a sampling of the most sophisticated commentary on superheroes, and second, to bring into sharper focus the ways in which superheroes connect with larger social, cultural, literary, aesthetic, and historical themes that are of interest to a great many readers both in the academy and beyond.

Download or read book Masked Heroes written by Kristi Nelson and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2nd edition of Masked Heroes which includes artistic tributes of portraits to the frontline workers of the COVID-19 pandemic and their shared stories.

Download or read book Heroes Masked and Mythic written by Christopher Wood and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epic battles, hideous monsters and a host of petty gods--the world of Classical mythology continues to fascinate and inspire. Heroes like Herakles, Achilles and Perseus have influenced Western art and literature for centuries, and today are reinvented in the modern superhero. What does Iron Man have to do with the Homeric hero Odysseus? How does the African warrior Memnon compare with Marvel's Black Panther? Do DC's Wonder Woman and Xena the Warrior Princess reflect the tradition of Amazon women such as Penthesileia? How does the modern superhero's journey echo that of the epic warrior? With fresh insight into ancient Greek texts and historical art, this book examines modern superhero archetypes and iconography in comics and film as the crystallization of the hero's journey in the modern imagination.

Download or read book Mask written by Kate Hannigan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Akiko, Mae, and Josie, also called the Infinity Trinity, spring into action after learning that a spy is betraying secrets to the Japanese military--and that Akiko's mother may be involved.--

Download or read book PJ Masks Heroes Stick Together written by Editors of Studio Fun International and published by Studio Fun International. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Color and complete the stickers that come with this PJ Masks coloring-and-activity book! Kids will love the more than 200 stickers of the PJ Masks heroes, villains, vehicles, and more that come with this book! The pages are also chock-full of images to color, stickers to color, and activities to complete! Featuring all the latest characters and their adventures, PJ Masks: Heroes Stick Together captures all the excitement and energy of the popular TV show and offers fans hours of creative, hands-on fun!

Download or read book Cape written by Kate Hannigan and published by Aladdin. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Readers…will be enamored by this blend of history, mystery, and superpowered action.” —Booklist (starred review) “Has the exciting pace of a superhero adventure.” —Kirkus Reviews Hidden Figures meets Wonder Woman in this action-packed, comic-inspired adventure about a brilliant girl puzzler who discovers she’s part of a superhero team—the first in a new series! Josie O’Malley does a lot to help out Mam after her father goes off to fight the Nazis, but she wishes she could do more—like all those caped heroes who now seem to have disappeared. If Josie can’t fly and control weather like her idol, Zenobia, maybe she can put her math smarts to use cracking puzzles for the government. After an official tosses out her puzzler test because she’s a girl, it soon becomes clear that an even more top-secret agency has its eye on Josie, along with two other applicants: Akiko and Mae. The trio bonds over their shared love of female superhero celebrities, from Hauntima to Zenobia to Hopscotch. But during one extraordinary afternoon, they find themselves transformed into the newest (and youngest!) superheroes in town. As the girls’ abilities slowly begin to emerge, they learn that their skills will be crucial in thwarting a shapeshifting henchman of Hitler, and, just maybe, in solving an even larger mystery about the superheroes who’ve recently gone missing. Inspired by remarkable real-life women from World War II—the human computers and earliest programmers called “the ENIAC Six”—this pulse-pounding adventure features bold action and brave thinking, with forty-eight pages of comic book style graphic panels throughout the book. Readers will want to don their own capes for an adventure, and realize they have the power to be a superhero, too!

Download or read book Masked Hero written by Shan Woo Liu and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Dr. Wu Lien-teh, defeater of the Manchurian plague—in a story authored by his great-granddaughter, an emergency physician who relied on his life-saving invention during a pandemic a century later. More than a hundred years before Covid, a deadly pneumonic plague threatened to sweep through Northeast China. Medical experts were summoned to help contain it—among them Wu Lien-teh, who had overcome hurdles to be a doctor since his boyhood in Malaysia. Unlike others, Dr. Wu deduced the disease was spread through airborne bacteria and advocated for quarantines and other measures familiar to readers today, including the use of a face covering he designed from layers of cloth and gauze: the first version of the N95 mask. Wu Lien-teh faced ridicule and discrimination, but his trailblazing methods prevailed: the 1910 Manchurian plague was vanquished in four months, and his invention continues to keep us safe now. Masked Hero, written by Dr. Wu Lien-teh’s great-granddaughter Shan Woo Liu and charmingly illustrated by Lisa Wee, celebrates the little-known history of the N95 mask and the hero who first devised it. Back matter, including an author’s note and a time line, sheds further light on the ever-relevant past, encouraging budding scientists to think bravely—and remember the small acts we all can perform to keep our communities safe.

Download or read book Meet the Heroes and the Villains Too written by Maggie Testa and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn all about your favorite heroes and baddies in this sweet tabbed board book based on PJ Masks, the hit preschool series airing on Disney Junior! Are you ready to meet the PJ Masks? Now you can learn all about Catboy, Owlette, and Gekko as well as the baddies they battle—Romeo, Luna Girl, and Night Ninja—in this super terrific tabbed board book that features one hero or villain on each tab. PJ Masks © Frog Box / Entertainment One UK Limited / Walt Disney EMEA Productions Limited 2014

Download or read book The Masked Prince written by Faith Ryan and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-20 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thief recruited by a malicious assistant to steal a valuable heirloom.An heir in disguise along with their bodyguard.And a man granting their wishes... with a twist.One night. One job. Nothing more.Alek is a homeless thief searching for a bed for the night when he runs into the assistant to one of society's most influential men.After a chance meeting, Rafe spies an opportunity to gain possession of a valuable heirloom from the home of Kassem Salib, and he swiftly recruits Alek to steal it.As Salib's only heir, Jess' life is under constant scrutiny. Jess wears a permanent disguise that only few know the truth of. When Alek and Jess encounter each other during the heist, things quickly spiral beyond their control.Nothing is what it seems in this retelling of a centuries old classic.**This is a MM retelling with multiple POVs. It is downright hot and dirty with some dark elements.

Download or read book The Darker Mask written by Gary Phillips and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2008-08-19 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wildly fantastic superhero stories by a cross section of today's cutting-edge urban fantasy and crime writers. Expanding on the concept behind Byron Preiss's Weird Heroes from the 1970s, George R. R. Martin's Wild Card series, and Michael Chabon's McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, The Darker Mask is a collection of original prose stories recalling the derring-do of the beings we call Superheroes and the worlds they fight to save. But unique to The Darker Mask stories is that these plots and characters color a literary universe outside of what has been predominantly white, idiosyncratic, and male in previous homages to pulp. This is the stuff of urban legends, new mythos, and extraordinary folks who might live in a soon-to-be-gentrified ghetto, the dreary rust-belt of the city, or in another dimension. The Darker Mask offers an eclectic mix of popular fiction writers exploring worlds gritty, visceral, and fantastic. Includes contributions from L. A. Banks, Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due, Lorenzo Carcaterra, Christopher Chambers, Reed Farrel Coleman, Michael A. Gonzales, Gar Anthony Haywood, Naomi Hirahara, Mat Johnson, Victor LaValle, Walter Mosley, Ann Nocenti, Gary Phillips, Jerry A. Rodrigues, Alexandra Sokoloff, Peter Spiegelman, Wayne L. Wilson, and Doselle Young. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book The Little Box of Big Heroes written by Various and published by Simon Spotlight. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go into the night and save the day with this board book collection based on PJ Masks, the hit preschool series airing on Disney Junior! Join Catboy, Gekko, and Owlette as they embark on four fantastic adventures together! This collectible boxed set features a tab closure and a carry-along handle, making it perfect for young PJ Masks fans who are always on the go! This action-packed collection includes the following board books: PJ Masks Save the Library! Hero School Super Cat Speed! PJ Masks Race to the Moon! PJ Masks © Frog Box / Entertainment One UK Limited / Walt Disney EMEA Productions Limited 2014

Download or read book Be a Hero written by and published by Simon Spotlight. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s time to be a hero with Catboy, Owlette, and Gekko in this special book based on PJ Masks, the hit preschool series airing on Disney Junior! As Catboy, Owlette, and Gekko know, it’s not always easy being a hero, but through their adventures, they have learned just what it takes to be one. Now fans can learn all about the skills that make the PJ Masks the heroes they are, so readers can take charge and become heroes too! PJ Masks © Frog Box / Entertainment One UK Limited / Walt Disney EMEA Productions Limited 2014

Download or read book Super Heroes written by Richard Reynolds and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1994 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of one of popular culture's superstars whose enchanting mystique pervades the modern world

Download or read book Heroes in the Night written by Tea Krulos and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Watchman didn't arrive in a Batmobile but drove a tan, four-door Pontiac. He was in costume, of course—a trench coat, motorcycle gloves, army boots, a domino mask, and a red hooded sweatshirt emblazoned with a W logo. Journalist Tea Krulos had spoken to him over the phone but never face-to-mask. By the end of the interview, he wasn't sure if the Watchman was delightfully eccentric or completely crazy. But he was going to find out. Heroes in the Night traces Krulos's journey into the strange subculture of Real Life Superheroes, random citizens who have adopted comic book&–style personas and hit the streets to fight injustice. Some concentrate on humanitarian or activist missions—helping the homeless, gathering donations for food banks, or delivering toys to children—while others actively patrol their neighborhoods looking for crime to fight. By day, these modern Clark Kents work as dishwashers, pencil pushers, and executives in Fortune 500 companies. But by night, only the Shadow knows. Well, the Shadow and Tea Krulos. Through historical research, extensive interviews, and many long hours walking patrol in Brooklyn, Seattle, San Diego, Minneapolis, and Vancouver, British Columbia, Krulos discovered what being a RLSH is all about. He shares not only their shining, triumphant moments but some of their ill-advised, terrifying disasters as well. It's all part of the life of a superhero. As the Watchman explains, &“If everyone made little changes in what they did, gave a little more to charity, watched out for their neighbors, we wouldn't have the problems that we have.&”

Download or read book PJ Masks Hooray for Heroes Sticker Book written by Editors of Studio Fun International and published by Studio Fun International. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This full-color PJ Masks activity book is packed with colorful stickers for kids to use to complete the activities, as reward stickers, and just for fun! The PJ Masks Hooray for Heroes! Sticker Book is packed with exciting activities and includes stickers of Catboy, Gekko, Owlette, and others that can be used to complete mazes, puzzles, scenes, and much more! There are more than 100 stickers included, so there’s enough to use as reward stickers when you finish an activity, and loads more to use just for fun!

Download or read book Party Heroes written by and published by Simon Spotlight. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Catboy, Gekko, and Owlette in this party-themed 8x8 storybook based on PJ Masks, the hit preschool series airing on Disney Junior! Join in the fun as PJ Robot stops Romeo’s new robots the FlyBots by distracting them with a robot party! Perfect for little heroes’ birthdays and celebrations, this fun-filled storybook includes three cardstock activity pages that feature a game of “Pin the Tail on the PJ Masks” and more! PJ Masks © Frog Box / Entertainment One UK Limited / Walt Disney EMEA Productions Limited 2014