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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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Superheroes: a never ending battle is the first documentary to examine the dawn of the comic book genre and its powerful legacy, as well as the evolution of the characters who leapt from the pages over the last 75 years and their ongoing worldwide cultural impact. In this episode: This episode captures the enthusiasm for superheroes as they are embraced in all forms of media and by all demographics, beginning with the historic "Superman" movie featuring...
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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Superheroes: a never ending battle is the first documentary to examine the dawn of the comic book genre and its powerful legacy, as well as the evolution of the characters who leapt from the pages over the last 75 years and their ongoing worldwide cultural impact. In this episode: In the 1960s, a new breed of superhero emerges in the pages of Marvel Comics, inspired by the age of atomic energy and space travel and, in turn, inspiring the pop culture...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Superheroes: a never ending battle is the first documentary to examine the dawn of the comic book genre and its powerful legacy, as well as the evolution of the characters who leapt from the pages over the last 75 years and their ongoing worldwide cultural impact.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Superheroes: a never ending battle is the first documentary to examine the dawn of the comic book genre and its powerful legacy, as well as the evolution of the characters who leapt from the pages over the last 75 years and their ongoing worldwide cultural impact. In this episode: During the Depression, the popularity of dozens of superhero characters opens the door for a new generation of artists and writers. World War II creates a patriotic fervor...
5) Sovereign
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Nemesis (April Daniels) volume 2
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English
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The highly anticipated sequel to Dreadnought, featuring "the most exciting new superheroes in decades." (Kirkus, starred review)
Only nine months after her debut as the superhero Dreadnought, Danny Tozer is already a scarred veteran. Protecting a city the size of New Port is a team-sized job and she's doing it alone. Between her newfound celebrity and her demanding cape duties, Dreadnought is stretched thin, and it's only going to get worse.
When...
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Captain Underpants volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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George and Harold are forced to contemplate a world without Captain Underpants.
7) Dreadnought
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Nemesis (April Daniels) volume 1
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English
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An action-packed series-starter perfect for fans of The Heroine Complex and Not Your Sidekick. Danny Tozer has a problem: she just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world's greatest superhero. Until Dreadnought fell out of the sky and died right in front of her, Danny was trying to keep people from finding out she's transgender. But before he expired, Dreadnought passed his mantle to her, and those secondhand superpowers transformed Danny's...
9) Escape
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This is episode 2 in the continuing saga of Johnny Norberg. The Ultimate Superhero. Johnny Norberg was born with the unique ability to make things happen simply by thinking about them. When he was five months old three men in black suits abducted him and it wasn't until eleven years later that his mother foumd out what happened to him. He had been held against his will at Area 51 because thay wanted to make him the ultimate superspy, but Johnny had...
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Important: This book is the 12th book in our Superhero Universe!When Conner finally thinks that everything is over, everything goes wrong again. Conner now has a child and he talks a lot with Sharon again. Sharon even wants them to be together again, but what she doesn't know is that Conner is drinking again. After everything he has been through, he feels like he has no other choice, but he knows he has to fix it, no matter what. One night, Chief...
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Kendra and her friends decide to join a magical girl team competition. They'll definitely win, right? They're the greatest team there.
Nope.
They lose.
But there's something odd about the first place winners.
There's a hidden secret that might tear the whole team apart. .and an unknown villain who wants to destroy them.
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Important: This book is the 10th book in our Superhero Universe!It had been about a year since the events in New York with the Outcasts, and Victoria had been trying to live a normal life with the Survivors. But everything changed when they heard that the Reapers had robbed a bank. Victoria knew that she had to investigate, and she went over to the bank to see what she could find. As she looked around, Victoria found a piece of a map. She had no idea...
13) Fat Jesus
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An overweight man becomes a real life superhero after criminals take over his town.
14) Expectations
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Petra is a Modern God, a human with superpowers, if weaker than her twin sister or her parents. Learning all the family's deep secrets just reinforces her intention to make the world a better place. Everyone expected Elise to put on a mask and fight crime, or commit it, not Petra. She will master her powers and save the world. Or die trying. A sequel of sorts to "Kid Lexington", set in 1974 as the kids take up the costumed warrior mantle in a world...
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When a rescue mission goes horribly wrong, it'll take all his superpowers just to survive...White Knight is the most popular superhero in the country-which is bad news for David Del Toro, formerly White Knight, who retired from heroics years ago and just wants some peace and quiet. When the White Knight ride at a superhero-inspired theme park has a grand reopening, Dave is more than happy to give his complimentary tickets to his daughter and her friends...
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Important: This book is the 1st book in our Superhero Universe!In a universe parallel to ours, there existed a world where electricity was never discovered. The people of Amliveon, a city in this world, lived without the convenience of modern technology. Their king, Liveos, and his people were once slaves, but they had managed to escape and find a magical material that changed their lives. One day, they stumbled upon a crack between universes and...
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His reputation had been secure.
He was the world's most feared supervillain! But then he saved the world...News cameras had captured every moment of the battle in which Doctor Fid single-handedly averted an alien invasion. As details emerge, the public discovers how close the Earth had come to inescapable subjugation...or to complete annihilation.
In the aftermath, there are many who wonder if the veteran supervillain has changed his ways. There...
18) Molecural: Lost
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Important: This book is the 3rd book in our Superhero Universe!Victoria White was a young woman who had always worked hard. She was an integral part of her father's company, Elecforms, and did almost everything there, especially since her father had stopped working there. Though she was basically the owner of the company, her father didn't want her to officially be the CEO, which was something that really frustrated her. But she loved him nonetheless,...
19) Dating Disaster
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After taking Sloane Slade under her wing, Rose Gardens is faced with the seemingly impossible task of teaching the quick tempered teen how to be a hero, without accidentally turning her into the next terrifying supervillain of Century City.
But superhero school comes to an abrupt halt when superhero reality rears its ugly head: the mystery of Rose's murderous boyfriend from the future is a ticking time bomb that's set to go off any minute, and every...
20) This Time Around
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Being a werewolf isn't all about howling at the moon and running carelessly through boundless fields feeling the wind in your fur. For Michael Andrews, a Canadian living in Manhattan and afflicted with lycanthropy, there are odd side effects to being a werewolf in the middle of a bustling metropolis.
Such as waking up naked in Battery Park with absolutely no memory of the night before as a wolf and trying to figure out why there is a bullet hole...
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