The author put together profiles of sixty men and women he considered to be heroes of their time, including Rosa Parks, Abraham Lincoln, Anne Frank, Amelia Earhart, Mahatma Gandhi, and others.
Natsu and Gray continue their efforts to keep a demon from being resurrected by Gray's fellow disciple. Meanwhile, Fairy Tale and a rival guild begin a war with one another.
In New York City's Germantown during World War II, Evelyn spends less time with the superheroes in the comics she draws after she makes friends with Tony, her Aunt Lia's building superintendent's son. The two set out to find adventures of their own, but are surprised when they uncover a Nazi spy plot right in their own neighborhood.
Douglas Peterson, having turned his back on the Kingdom of Valdonia when he was eight years old, must return to the wonderland as an adult and fulfill his destiny of becoming a hero.
Arthur Penhaligon, destined to die at a young age, is saved by a key shaped like the minute hand of a clock, but his survival invokes the wrath of the mysterious Mister Monday who will stop at nothing to get the key back, and Arthur is forced into a desperate quest to unravel the secrets of the key and discover his true fate.
Presents seventeen Marvel Comics published between 1939 and 1957, featuring such heroes as the Human Torch, Captain America, and the Angel, and reflecting American themes of the time, such as war against the Nazis and the threat of Communism.
A graphic novel in which the retirement of Superman and other superheroes has left the world in the grip of metahumans who do not always have the best interest of ordinary citizens in mind.