Many of the most inspiring characters in comics and graphic novels began their epic journeys as orphaned or abandoned children. In these stories the loss of a parent inflicts challenges that even superpowers cannot easily resolve. For over a century and millions of readers the comic strip is a space in which this narrative has been continuously reimagined. Superheroes Orphans amp Origins 125 Years in Comics offers a richly illustrated and thoughtprovoking exploration of the representation of o