Download or read book Superhero School written by Alan MacDonald and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Underpants meets Marvel comics in this very funny and very silly new series from the bestselling author of Dirty Bertie
Download or read book Superman Classic Darkseid s Revenge written by Devan Aptekar and published by HarperFestival. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darkseid has brainwashed Superman and is using him in his wicked plans to take over Earth! With some help from Batman and Wonder Woman, the Man of Steel just might be able to stop the fiend and save his beloved planet.
Download or read book Final Crisis New Edition written by Grant Morrison and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when evil wins? That's the question Superman, Batman, the Justice League and every being in the DCU have to face when Darkseid and his otherworldly legion of narcissistic followers actually win the war between light and dark. Featuring the deaths and resurrections of major DC characters, Final Crisis is more than your average multi-part event-it's a deconstruction of Super Hero comics and a challenging, thought-provoking take on the modern, four-color icons. This new edition includes story pages from Batman #682-683 in addition to Final Crisis #1-7, Superman Beyond #1-2 and Submit #1.
Download or read book Revenge Of The Cosmic Ghost Rider written by Dennis "Hopeless" Hallum and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Revenge of the Cosmic Ghost Rider (2019) #1-5. He’s back, baby! With a reputation like Cosmic Ghost Rider’s, it’s only a matter of time before the law catches up to this flame-headed future version of Frank Castle and tries to put him in chains. Too bad for the cosmic cops that chains are Castle’s new weapons of choice! On the run with a rogue hitchhiker in tow — the young Earth woman named Cammi — Frank must take on one of the biggest crime syndicates in the cosmos! But with his soul hanging in the balance, will he damn the whole galaxy to hell to get what he wants? Plus: A new short story from Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw, the crazed minds who kicked off the madness and introduced Cosmic Ghost Rider in the first place!
Download or read book Spider Man written by Howard Mackie and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #20-29, Annual 2001; Spider-Man: Revenge of the Green Goblin #1-3; Peter Parker: Spider-Man (1999) #25, 29. Norman Osborn is mad, bad and very dangerous to know! And as the addled villain battles to strengthen his fragile grip on reality, he summons the will to again plague the life of Peter Parker - and the Green Goblin takes to the skies once more! The timing couldn't be worse for Spider-Man, as he grieves for a lost loved one, and Osborn has more on his mind than revenge - he wants Parker as his heir! And as if one of the greatest Goblin stories of all time isn't enough, Spidey must face a showdown with the Spider-Slayer, a squabble with the Squid and an encounter with the Enforcers! But whatever happened to Mary Jane?
Download or read book Revenge written by Ted Sullivan and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An all-new graphic novel inspired by ABC's popular television series "Revenge," cowritten by series writer Ted Sullivan! Emily Thorne is a wealthy and good-natured philanthropist who recently befriended the powerful Grayson family. But Emily's real name is Amanda Clarke. Twenty years ago, the Graysons' elite social circle framed Amanda's father for a horrific crime...and Amanda plans to destroy the lives of those who stole her childhood and betrayed her father. Now, experience Amanda's first mission of revenge! After training in Japan, the untested heroine finds herself infiltrating high society in Geneva. There, she uncovers secrets about her past...but her future will be short-lived unless Amanda can defeat a surprising enemy with ties to the people who destroyed her life! Prepare for a thrilling ride into the previously unexplored past of television's most dynamic - and dangerous - girl next door!
Download or read book Rapunzel s Revenge written by Shannon Hale and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapunzel escapes her tower-prison all on her own, only to discover a world beyond what she'd ever known before. Determined to rescue her real mother and to seek revenge on her kidnapper would-be mother, Rapunzel and her very long braids team up with Jack (of Beanstalk fame) and together they perform daring deeds and rescues all over the western landscape, eventually winning the justice they so well deserve.
Download or read book Spider Man written by Adam-Troy Castro and published by iBooks. This book was released on 2002 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiderman must try to save Pity from the predicament she is in at the same time stop the Sinister Six from carrying out the Gentleman's world-threatening plans.
Download or read book The Psychology of Superheroes written by Robin S. Rosenberg and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest installment in the Psychology of Popular Culture series turns its focus to superheroes. Superheroes have survived and fascinated for more than 70 years in no small part due to their psychological depth. In The Psychology of Superheroes, almost two dozen psychologists get into the heads of today's most popular and intriguing superheroes. Why do superheroes choose to be superheroes? Where does Spider-Man's altruism come from, and what does it mean? Why is there so much prejudice against the X-Men, and how could they have responded to it, other than the way they did? Why are super-villains so aggressive? The Psychology of Superheroes answers these questions, exploring the inner workings our heroes usually only share with their therapists.
Download or read book Spider Man written by and published by Marvel. This book was released on 2012-09-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Six have never been more sinister than in this star-studded saga! They've looted and slaughtered their way across an alien world, and Earth is next! If even Spider-Man's strength, wit and new web cannons can't stop the murderous miscreants and their robot army, it may take a dozen heroes to win the day - but one of the Six outweighs and outpowers all of them combined! Guest-starring Ghost Rider, the Incredible Hulk, Deathlok and more! COLLECTING: SPIDER-MAN (1990) 15, 18-23
Download or read book Veiled Superheroes written by Sophia Rose Arjana and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study examines Muslim female superheroes within a matrix of Islamic theology, feminism, and contemporary political discourse. Through a close reading of texts including Ms. Marvel, Qahera, and The 99, Sophia Rose Arjana argues that these powerful and iconic characters reflect independence and agency, reflecting the diverse lives of Muslim girls and women in the world today.
Download or read book Super Powered Revenge Christmas written by Bill Corbett and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What is a Superhero written by Robin S. Rosenberg, PhD and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a superhero? Everyone knows, right? And yet everyone seems to have a different answer. In this innovative collection of essays, renowned psychologist Robin Rosenberg and comics scholar Peter Coogan explore this question from a variety of viewpoints. With essays from scholars and commentaries by the writers and creators themselves, What is a Superhero? is the first volume to provide a true synthesis and reflection of the state of superheroes in our society today.
Download or read book The Science of Superheroes written by Lois H. Gresh and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-08-15 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The truth about superpowers . . . science fact or science fiction? Superman, Batman, The X-Men, Flash, Spider Man . . . they protect us from evildoers, defend truth and justice, and, occasionally, save our planet from certain doom. Yet, how much do we understand about their powers? In this engaging yet serious work, Lois Gresh and Robert Weinberg attempt to answer that question once and for all. From X-ray vision to psychokinesis, invisibility to lightspeed locomotion, they take a hard, scientific look at the powers possessed by all of our most revered superheroes, and a few of the lesser ones, in an attempt to sort fact from fantasy. In the process, they unearth some shocking truths that will unsettle, alarm, and even terrify all but the most fiendish of supervillains.
Download or read book Breakup Girl to the Rescue written by Lynn Harris and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2009-12-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breakup Girl is the only superhero whose mission it is to fight crimes of the heart, stop dating indignities, and help you get your stuff back. No matter where you are in a relationship, Breakup Girl to the Rescue! guides you through that big, messy thing called love. Lynn Harris uses her knowing voice and generous humor -- with real letters sent to her hugely popular Web site, BreakupGirl.com -- to ease readers through either side of a breakup, the dating life, and the rough spots of relationships. Topics include Dropping the Bomb, Relapses vs. Reunions, From Friends to Lovers, How to Lose Your Baggage, and The Curse of "The Nice Guy".
Download or read book Honor and Political Imagination written by Smita A. Rahman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-11-26 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Honor and Political Imagination, Smita A. Rahman reckons with the enduring power of honor in contemporary political and popular culture and the desire for heroism that accompanies it, while attending to the dangers that such a desire brings. Rahman argues that while there may be a place for honor in the political imagination, it remains a contested and complicated one. Including close readings of honor in popular culture, Rahman explores the tragic cost of the pursuit of honor, but also underlines its ability to inspire heroic political action.
Download or read book Batman and Psychology written by Travis Langley and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Batman is one of the most compelling and enduring characters to come from the Golden Age of Comics, and interest in his story has only increased through countless incarnations since his first appearance in Detective Comics #27 in 1939. Why does this superhero without superpowers fascinate us? What does that fascination say about us? Batman and Psychology explores these and other intriguing questions about the masked vigilante, including: Does Batman have PTSD? Why does he fight crime? Why as a vigilante? Why the mask, the bat, and the underage partner? Why are his most intimate relationships with “bad girls” he ought to lock up? And why won't he kill that homicidal, green-haired clown? Combining psychological theory with the latest in psychological research, Batman and Psychology takes you on an unprecedented journey behind the mask and into the dark mind of your favorite Caped Crusader and his never-ending war on crime.
