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Captain America

The book has already generated nearly $300,000 for various charities aiding the victims of the Sept. 11 attack, but it doesn't mark the end of the comic book industry's efforts. Marvel competitor DC Comics (home of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman) is planning its own benefit project in collaboration with several smaller companies, due in January. Also set for release that month is ''9-11: Emergency Relief,'' an effort from independent creators, while Marvel has another benefit book, ''Moments of Silence,'' coming out in December, with Kevin Smith again among the contributors.

For ''Heroes,'' Smith wrote an uncharacteristically somber bit of poetry that runs across the bottom of a Quesada and McFarlane image of a weeping firefighter: ''No toll, no price, no loss greater than this: one of our own. No oath, no pledge, no vow greater than this: to never give up.''

Old-fashioned superheroes appear only a few times in the 64-page book, with the flag-splashed Captain America popping up most frequently. ''I was trying to discourage using superheroes,'' Quesada says. ''You don't want to demean the efforts of real people.''

The closest the book comes to a standard action-packed comic is in an image created by artist Igor Kordey, who has drawn various ''Star Wars'' and ''X-Men''-related series in the past. Kordey's chillingly detailed drawing shows a group of passengers on United Flight 93 -- doomed to crash in the Pennsylvania woods -- preparing to give their lives to defeat hijackers. Clearly, superheroes do exist.

Originally posted Oct 29, 2001

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