Marvel or DC … that is the question for the ages!

But whatever your pleasure the libraries and Shalom will accommodate. I’ve often said that it doesn’t really matter what a child reads, it can be a cereal box, as long as they are processing words and learning sentence structures.

Meeting a child’s interest is obviously a great way to engage with them and the pop culture that was born in America in the 30’s has provided an excellent vehicle for the superhero/adventure theme to develop. The comic book, as it began, was perfect – transportable and inexpensive, fast, colourful, and dynamic, it became an iconized ambassador for a new age.

Of course, the medium didn’t escape the brutalities of war and the comic book was increasingly weaponized as mass propaganda. Bloodied, corrupted, and grotesquely violent the comic book was rescued in the 1960’s when the industry matured, and the product grew more sophisticated and gradually became less associated with the horrors of wartime politics and more identifiable as a medium for the superhero entities that we know today.

Ask in the library where you can find your favourites.