This fourth collection chronicling the life of Frank as he makes amends with a beatnik ghoul, meets Santa Claus, gets his house fixed up, and goes on an unexpected adventure.Contains: Madman Comics #16-20

    A unique combination of comic-book illustration and prose, this super-hero biography follows the Flash from his humble childhood to his noble death, detailing his transformation from medical police scientist to one of the DC Universe's most dynamic heroes.

    In one sense, the book is about children "writing superheroes" - about children appropriating superhero stories in their fiction writing and dramatic play on the playground and in the classroom. These stories offer children identities as powerful people who do battle against evil and win, but they also reveal limiting ideological assumptions about relations between people - boys and girls, adults and children, people of varied heritages, physical demeanors, and social classes. The book, then, is also about children as "writing superheroes." With the assistance of their teacher, the observed children became superheroes of another sort, able to take on powerful cultural storylines. In this book, Anne Dyson examines how the children's interest in and conflicts about commercial culture give rise to both literacy and social learning, including learning how to participate in a community of differences.

    Valuable tips on drawing styles and techniques make these best-sellers favorites with both aspiring artists and kids who just want to have fun.

    Will they be able to replace Earth's Mightiest Heroes, or will supervillains run rampant?

    Jack Boniface has carried that burden, but now he is gone, murdered by the demented Tommy Lee Bones and his Dead Men who have slipped through from the Deadside to New Orleans. To stop them someone else must take up the mantle of Shadowman and send them back. Nettie, a voodoo priestess, and her Deadside spy Jaunty believe that person may be Zero, a contract killer with a mysterious past.