Project Superpowers

Launched in 2008 by Dynamite Entertainment, Project Superpowers resurrects a pantheon of long-dormant Golden Age heroes for a modern, morally complex world. Spearheaded by the visionary team of writer/artist Alex Ross and writer Jim Krueger, the series blends Ross's iconic painted covers with the interior art of Carlos Paul and Doug Klauba. Over its 8-issue run, it reimagines classic public-domain characters like the Fighting Yank and the Black Terror, exploring what happens when forgotten champions return to a society that has moved past simple heroics. This ambitious series matters for its role in reviving and recontextualizing a lost era of comics, treating these vintage figures with a serious, epic grandeur.