The Avengers: The S.H.I.E.L.D. Files

The Avengers: The S.H.I.E.L.D. Files
Author: Scott Peterson
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2012-04-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1423174585

S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury has brought together Earth’s Mightiest Heroes to form the Avengers. These are top secret S.H.I.E.L.D. files on Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Hawkeye, and Black Widow. But what kind of threat would cause Fury to call six Super Heroes and not just one?

Marvel Super Hero Fact Book

Marvel Super Hero Fact Book
Author:
Publisher: Brighter Child Interactive
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Cartoons and comics
ISBN: 9781577912989

Learn more about your favorite MarvelTM Super Heroes! Featuring fun facts about Spider-Man, Storm, the Hulk, and more! Each page of this interactive book folds out from an 8" x 8" to a 16" x 16" poster, revealing a MarvelTM character!

Avengers

Avengers
Author: Matthew K. Manning
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019
Genre: Adventure stories
ISBN: 9781684056361

A new team is formed to battle a mega-sized threat that is weirder and wilder than any the superheroes have met before! The New Danger will be the perfect opportunity for middle grade readers, and fans of all ages, to experience the thrilling adventures of Avengers comics for the first time!

Spider-Man

Spider-Man
Author: Delilah S. Dawson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2019
Genre: Antiheroes
ISBN: 9781684055210

"Peter (Spider-Man) Parker, Miles (also Spider-Man) Morales, and Gwen (Ghost-Spider) Stacy have joined forces and nothing can stop them in these middle-grade friendly adventures in the Mighty Marvel Manner! Well, maybe nothing except homework and an internship at the Daily Bugle, not to mention being stalked by a new dangerous foe... Kraven the Hunter! One by one, the Spiders fall into Kraven's web, but the final showdown looms on a battlefield of the hunter's choosing. Could this be the end for Peter, Miles, and Gwen? Collects issues #4-6 of the Marvel Action: Spider-Man series."--Provided by publisher.

Marvel Heroic Roleplaying

Marvel Heroic Roleplaying
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN: 9781936685165

Experience all of the pulse-pounding action and nail-biting drama of the Marvel Universe at your gaming table. This rulebook includes an operations and hero manuals.

Marvel Super Hero Adventures: Buggin' Out!

Marvel Super Hero Adventures: Buggin' Out!
Author: MacKenzie Cadenhead
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1368017061

The school-wide science fair Peter Parker (a.k.a Spider-Man) has been eagerly awaiting has finally arrived! Peter has always excelled at science, and after getting the boot in a basketball game earlier that day, he could use a little pick-me-up. So imagine Peter's surprise and dismay when basketball great and all-around-bully Flash Thompson shows up with a totally awesome project! But when the science fair is put in jeopardy thanks to the antics of one Doc Ock, Peter will need to team up with fellow 'bugz' Ant-Man and the Wasp to save the fair and the people in it— even if it means someone else walking away with the prize. Great things—and even bigger surprises—come in tiny packages in this third installment in Marvel's Super Hero Adventures early chapter book series.

What is a Superhero?

What is a Superhero?
Author: Robin S. Rosenberg PhD
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2013-07-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 019933952X

It's easy to name a superhero--Superman, Batman, Thor, Spiderman, the Green Lantern, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Rorschach, Wolverine--but it's not so easy to define what a superhero is. Buffy has superpowers, but she doesn't have a costume. Batman has a costume, but doesn't have superpowers. What is the role of power and superpower? And what are supervillains and why do we need them? In What is a Superhero?, psychologist Robin Rosenberg and comics scholar Peter Coogan explore this question from a variety of viewpoints, bringing together contributions from nineteen comic book experts--including both scholars in such fields as cultural studies, art, and psychology as well as leading comic book writers and editors. What emerges is a kaleidoscopic portrait of this most popular of pop-culture figures. Writer Jeph Loeb, for instance, sees the desire to make the world a better place as the driving force of the superhero. Jennifer K. Stuller argues that the female superhero inspires women to stand up, be strong, support others, and most important, to believe in themselves. More darkly, A. David Lewis sees the indestructible superhero as the ultimate embodiment of the American "denial of death," while writer Danny Fingeroth sees superheroes as embodying the best aspects of humankind, acting with a nobility of purpose that inspires us. Interestingly, Fingeroth also expands the definition of superhero so that it would include characters like John McClane of the Die Hard movies: "Once they dodge ridiculous quantities of machine gun bullets they're superheroes, cape or no cape." From summer blockbusters to best-selling graphic novels, the superhero is an integral part of our culture. What is a Superhero? not only illuminates this pop-culture figure, but also sheds much light on the fantasies and beliefs of the American people.

MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios

MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios
Author: Joanna Robinson
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2023-10-10
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1631497529

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A superb chronicle of how Marvel Studios conquered Hollywood…. This definitive account of the Hollywood juggernaut thrills." —Publishers Weekly, starred review The unauthorized, behind-the-scenes story of the stunning rise—and suddenly uncertain reign—of the most transformative cultural phenomenon of our time: the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Marvel Entertainment was a moribund toymaker not even twenty years ago. Today, Marvel Studios is the dominant player both in Hollywood and in global pop culture. How did an upstart studio conquer the world? In MCU, beloved culture writers Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, and Gavin Edwards draw on more than a hundred interviews with actors, producers, directors, and writers to present the definitive chronicle of Marvel Studios and its sole, ongoing production, the Marvel Cinematic Universe. For all its outward success, the studio was forged by near-constant conflict, from the contentious hiring of Robert Downey Jr. for its 2008 debut, Iron Man, all the way up to the disappointment of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and shocking departures of multiple Marvel executives in 2023. Throughout, the authors demonstrate that the original genius of Marvel was its resurrection and modification of Hollywood’s old studio system. But will it survive its own spectacular achievements? Dishy and authoritative, MCU is the first book to tell the Marvel Studios story in full—and an essential, effervescent account of American mass culture.