Showcase Presents 2

Since the first appearance of Robin, teenaged heroes have banded together to fight evil and learn from each other as the Teen Titans! This collection is packed with Teen Titans tales.

"Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster."

"Try not to panic, but the terrifying facts are all too clear-- from the oceans' depths to the stars overhead, our planet is under siege from every possible direction! Relentless robots stalk the globe, seeding destruction in every step; hapless citizens transmogrify into unwilling agents of Martian militarism; humans and Venusians go brain-to-brain over priceless stolen thoughts; and the planet's climate itself is fatally compromised by a dangerous reduction in atmospheric carbon dioxide! Only one publication dares to bring you all of these inconvenient truths -- including gun-wielding gorillas, metal-munching meteorites, and unstoppable snowmen from beyond the Moon! Featuring a creative team that includes acclaimed comics scribes Otto Binder, Gardner Fox, and Edmond Hamilton as well as artistic legends Gil Kane, Carmine Infantino and Sid Greene, this second volume of Showcase Presents: Strange Adventures brings to vivid life the futures that never were--and those that may yet be!" -- p. [4] of cover.

Sent from Paradise Island, home of the Amazons, to man's world as an ambassador of peace, Wonder Woman is the world's greatest superheroine! Now, in this oversized, low-priced collection of Wonder Woman's adventures from the 1960s, the story continues as Steve Trevor travels to Paradise Island in search of Wonder Woman-but finds he has love rivals in the form of Merman and Amoebaman! The eponymous heroine also turns into a giant and won't stop growing! Written by comics master Robert Kanigher (Sgt Rock), with art by legends Ross Andru (Spider-Man) and Mike Esposito, this bumper book, reprinting incredibly hard-to-find comics, offers thrills, spills and amazing value for money!

Taking a multifaceted approach to attitudes toward race through popular culture and the American superhero, All New, All Different? explores a topic that until now has only received more discrete examination. Considering Marvel, DC, and lesser-known texts and heroes, this illuminating work charts eighty years of evolution in the portrayal of race in comics as well as in film and on television. Beginning with World War II, the authors trace the vexed depictions in early superhero stories, considering both Asian villains and nonwhite sidekicks. While the emergence of Black Panther, Black Lightning, Luke Cage, Storm, and other heroes in the 1960s and 1970s reflected a cultural revolution, the book reveals how nonwhite superheroes nonetheless remained grounded in outdated assumptions. Multiculturalism encouraged further diversity, with 1980s superteams, the minority-run company Milestone’s new characters in the 1990s, and the arrival of Ms. Marvel, a Pakistani-American heroine, and a new Latinx Spider-Man in the 2000s. Concluding with contemporary efforts to make both a profit and a positive impact on society, All New, All Different? enriches our understanding of the complex issues of racial representation in American popular culture.

Somewhere near Kentucky, there is a graveyard, overlooked by the House of Secrets, the home to mysteries, magic and mayhem - and the housekeeper, a timid man named Abel. The early years of the classic mystery series are presented in this collection of spooky stories.

Illustration has been an integral part of human history. Particularly before the advent of media such as photography, film, television, and now the Internet, illustrations in all their variety had been the primary visual way to convey history. The comic book, which emerged in its modern form in the 1930s, was another form of visual entertainment that gave readers, especially children, a form of escape. As World War II began, however, comic books became a part of propaganda as well, providing information and education for both children and adults. This book looks at how specific comic books of the war genre have been used to display patriotism, adventure through war stories, and eventually to tell of the horrors of combat—from World War II through the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan in the first decade of the twenty-first century. This book also examines how war-and patriotically-themed comics evolved from soldier-drawn reflections of society, eventually developing along with the broader comic book medium into a mirror of American society during times of conflict. These comic books generally reflected patriotic fervor, but sometimes they advanced a specific cause. As war comic books evolved along with American society, many also served as a form of protest against United States foreign and military policy. During the country’s most recent wars, however, patriotism has made a comeback, at the same time that the grim realities of combat are depicted more realistically than ever before. The focus of the book is not only on the development of the comic book medium, but also as a bell-weather of society at the same time. How did they approach the news of the war? Were people in favor or against the fighting? Did the writers of comics promote a perception of combat or did they try to convey the horrors of war? All of these questions were important to the research, and serve as a focal point for what has been researched only in limited form previously. The conclusions of the book show that comic books are more than mere forms of entertainment. Comic books were also a way of political protest against war, or what the writers felt were wider examples of governmental abuse. In the post 9/11 era, the comic books have returned to their propagandistic/patriotic roots.