Todd Klein
1) Marvel 1602
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
1602, England. Her majesty's premier spy, Sir Nicholas Fury, fends off an assassination attempt on the Queen by winged warriors rumored to be in service to a mad despot named Doom. News is spreading of "witchbreed" sightings and at the center of the rising chaos is Virginia Dare, a young girl newly arrived from the New World, guarded by a towering Indian warrior. Can Fury and his allies find a connection to these unusual happenings before the whole...
3) Kingdom come
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Language
English
Description
"In the near future, the DC Universe is spinning out of control. The new generation of heroes have lost their moral compass, becoming as reckless and violent as the villains they fight. The previous regime of heroes--the Justice League--returns under dire circumstances, which sets up a battle of the old guard against these uncompromising protectors in a conflict that will define what heroism truly is."
5) The Sandman
Author
Publisher
DC Black Label
Pub. Date
[2022]-
Language
English
Description
"Neil Gaiman's award-winning masterpiece The Sandman is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed graphic novels of all time. The series is a rich blend of modern and ancient mythology in which contemporary fiction, historical drama, and legend are seamlessly interwoven."--
Author
Series
Sandman library volume 1
Publisher
DC Comics
Language
English
Description
"An occultist attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. After his 70 year imprisonment and eventual escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a quest for his lost objects of power. On his arduous journey Morpheus encounters Lucifer, John Constantine, and an all-powerful madman. This book also includes the story "The Sound of Her Wings," which introduces us to the pragmatic and perky goth...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Language
English
Description
"A formidable foe is sucking Gotham into her dark fantasy, only Batwoman can bring a madwoman back to reality and save the city! A madwoman known only as "Alice" is terrorizng Gotham. Inspired by "Alice in Wonderland", Alice sees her life as a fairy-talefantasy, and everyone around her just as expendable as shadows in a dream. Batwoman must stop Alice from unleashing a poisonous cloud over Gotham city. As the two women battle for the fatee of the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Neil Gaiman's The Sandman set the standard for mature, lyrical fantasy in the modern comics era. This 30th Anniversary edition of The Sandman: Overture is a lush, epic look at The Sandman's origin story. The Sandman: Overture heralded New York Times best-selling writer Neil Gaiman's return to the art form that made him famous, ably abetted by artistic luminary J.H. Williams III, whose lush, widescreen images provide an epic scope to this tale featuring...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A not-so-evil queen is terrified of her monstrous stepdaughter and determined to repel this creature and save her kingdom from a world where happy endings aren't so happily ever after. From the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, Nebula award-winning, and New York Times bestselling writer Neil Gaiman comes this graphic novel adaptation by Colleen Doran"--
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Black Label
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The impossible has happened: the Joker has become ... sane. Now calling himself Gotham's newest protector, the Joker now spearheads a task force to take down the dangerous masked vigilante known as Batman. Visionary creator Sean Murphy (Punk Rock Jesus, American Vampire) unveils his radical take on the greatest rivalry in comics in Batman: White Knight! After years of epic battles, the Dark Knight finally finds a way to cure the twisted mind of his...
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Get to know Captain Marvel and her spacefaring allies with these classic adventures! Who are the Kree warriors known as Starforce? Ronan the Accuser makes first contact between the Kree and Earth -- and he may be judge, jury, and executioner for the Fantastic Four! The vicious Colonel Yon-Rogg of the Kree brands Captain Mar-Vell a traitor for defending the people of Earth, leading Mar-Vell to assume the human identity of Walter Lawson and become...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Timothy Hunter is like any other 13-year-old boy, aimlessly filling his days with television and skateboarding. But Timothy Hunter is also unlike nearly everyone else on Earth, and he's about to learn the reason why. In a word -- magic. Tim doesn't believe in magic, of course, but it turns out that magic certainly believes in him -- at least enough that some of its practitioners are already actively planning his untimely death. Luckily for Tim, he...
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"A warped variation of the Joker drug has caused those who use it to suffer mental breakdowns and embrace anarchy and chaos. With riots cropping up throughout Gotham City, the citizens find themselves divided into two gangs: one led by a Batman imposter whose mission is to bring law and order back to the streets, the other led by a Joker imposter out to punish the innocent and set Gotham ablaze. And in the middle of it all is the real Dark Knight...
17) Chivalry
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An elderly British widow buys what turns out to be the Holy Grail from a second-hand shop setting her off on an epic visit from an ancient knight who lures her with ancient relics in hope for winning the cup"--
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A celebrated send-up of gothic literature, beautifully adapted into a dark, brooding, and oddly comical graphic novel. Somewhere in the night, a raven caws, an author's pen scratches, and thunder claps. The author wants to write nonfiction: stories about frail women in white nightgowns, mysterious bumps in the night, and the undead rising to collect old debts. But he keeps getting interrupted by the everyday annoyances of talking ravens, duels to...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"For years, Diana of Paradise Island yearned to leave the only home she knew behind for adventures that laid beyond its shores. Now, after a fateful meeting with Air Force pilot Steve Trevor, the Amazon Warrior finds herself in Man's World. And she is ready for anything that it may throw at her. But is the world ready for Wonder Woman? An American government, fraught with dissension and conflicts foreign to Diana, has deemed her a danger to society....
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the 1990s, legendary writer Paul Dini had a flourishing career writing the hugely popular Batman: The Animated Series and Tiny Toon Adventures. Walking home one evening, he was jumped and viciously beaten within an inch of his life. His recovery process was arduous, hampered by the imagined antics of the villains he was writing for television including the Joker, Harley Quinn and the Penguin. But despite how bleak his circumstances were, or perhaps...