From fiction to fact

Anybody read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (813 C342a)? It's a fantastic novel (i.e., of the fiction genre) about two young men who create a superhero comic book series called The Escapist. Now Chabon, in collaboration with a number of talented artists, has produced The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, volume 1 (shelved in our graphic novel collection). The book is structured like a documentary history (i.e. of the nonfiction genre). It claims to include lost episodes and episodes that had been held from publication due to litigation. A chapter called "Escapism 101," written by a "Malachi B. Cohen" covers each epoch of the series, from 1940 up to today.

Here's one of the early portrayals of the Escapist:



But I confess to having a special fondness for this image of Luna Moth, Librarian of Unwanted Volumes, before her transformation: