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CRRL My Librarian: Graphic Novels Featuring Disabled Heroes

Heroes and superheroes don't just come in one shape or size. Here is a selection of graphic novels featuring characters who prove you don't need to be ordinarily abled to save the world. Age level is noted after each annotation.

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  • Matt Murdock's life changed forever after he was blinded by radioactive materials while saving an old man's life. Yet while his sight was lost, his other senses became super-enhanced. Now a grown man and lawyer, Matt uses his skills, keen…
    Graphic Novel, 2020New York, NY : Marvel Worldwide, Inc., 2020. — 741.5 Mi
  • Part Indiana Jones, part Lord of the Rings, this is the tale of how a selfish, arrogant surgeon will collide with a hot-headed martial artist to become the greatest team the mystic arts have ever seen...if only they can stop hitting each other and…
    Graphic Novel, 2012New York : Marvel Worldwide, 2012. — 741.5973 Pa
  • Casey Brinke is a young EMT who gets sent by her sentient ambulance, Danny Street, to find the members of Doom Patrol--a team of superheroes and metahumans whose powers pose a danger to themselves and who all have their own physical and mental…
    Graphic Novel, 2017Burbank, CA : DC Comics, 2017. — 741.5973 Wa
  • When a dramatic attempt on the life of Bucky Barnes reunites him with Sam Wilson, the old friends are plunged headlong into a race to uncover the new leader of Hydra before a mass-casualty event announces the terror group's resurgence to the world!…
    Graphic Novel, 2020New York, NY : Marvel Worldwide, Inc., [2020] — 741.5973 La
  • An orphan raised by carnies, the deaf Clint Barton grew up to be the first Hawkeye, the famed sniper-archer of the Avengers. Clint also became the most wanted man in the world after he intercepted some incriminating evidence. Now on the run with…
    Graphic Novel, 2013New York, N.Y. : Marvel Worldwide, Inc., 2013. — 741.5973 Fr
  • New York vigilante Marc Spector is Moon Knight, protecting the streets of his city with the mystical force of the Egyptian moon good Khonshu- but how does the night's greatest detective save a city when he has 3 separate personalities all vying for…
    Graphic Novel, 2014New York : Marvel, 2014. — 741.5973 El
  • Barbara Gordon is a teen hacker, puzzle-solver, and mystery-lover who spends evenings on Gotham City rooftops, coding away with her best friend. But after a gunshot paralyzes her from the waist down, Barbara--now using a wheelchair--is consigned to…
    Graphic Novel, 2020Burbank, CA : DC Comics, [2020] — 741.5973 Ni
  • Teenage assassin Cassandra Cain is on the run in Gotham City with no resources, little spoken language, and extremely limited knowledge of the world. Luckily, she finds a safe haven in gruff-yet-kind restaurant owner Jacqueline "Jackie" Fujikawa…
    Graphic Novel, 2020Burbank, CA : DC Comics, [2020] — 741.5973 Ku
  • Teen Titans Go!

    Truth, Justice, Pizza!

    Torres, J., 1969-
    Based on the 2000s Cartoon Network show, Teen Titans Go! shows the Teen Titans--consisting of Batman's Robin, the alien princess Starfire, the demonically raised Raven, the animal shapeshifter Beast Boy, and the cybernetically enhanced…
    Graphic Novel, 2015Burbank, California : DC Comics, 2015. — 741.597 To
  • X-Men

    Grand Design. 1

    Piskor, Ed
    In this assemblage of X-men storylines, readers are guided through the origins and early days of Professor X and Magneto are examined as are the beginnings of several X-Men favorites. Heroes include Cyclops, Jean Grey, the Angel, Iceman, and the…
    Graphic Novel, 2018New York, NY : Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC, 2018. — 741.5973 Pi