The Perils of Captain Mighty and the Redemption of Danny the Kid

Denny helped to lift comics out of the category of little kid stuff and endow them with substance and intelligence. -- Stan Lee Denny ONeil has crafted a heartbreaking epic about life, love, personal demons and the power of imagination - a two-faced whirlwind that has the power to torment us and also, paradoxically, the power to set us free. -- David S. Goyer, Co-writer of the Dark Knight Trilogy and Man of Steel A shadow autobiography as soaked in brightly costumed super-heroics as its shaded by the grays of a turbulent, mid-century America. -- Patton Oswald, Writer, Actor, Stand-up Comic Denny shaped comics and the popular culture for a generation with his sharp-edged storytelling, and his ambition to make characters like Batman deeply human...and complexly flawed. The writers and filmmakers hes influenced would fill a stadium, not just a writing class. -- Paul Levitz, Former president of DC Comics Danny OBoyle is drinking himself to death by inches when he lucks into a job with a comic book publisher and begins an odyssey from a New York ghetto to a black hole in deep space. It is the Sixties, when popular culture is responding to the upheavals of angry and restless young people and when comics, that most despised medium, begins its ascent into respectability. Danny is there for all of it. The Perils of Captain Mighty and the Redemption of Danny the Kid has two other stories to tell, and here it bows to magical realism. Two of Dannys fictional creations to acquire lives of their own. One is Captain Mighty, whose evolution from imaginary friend to galaxy-hopping hero parallels the evolution of comic-book superheroes. The other is Captain Miightys opposite, Mr. Gnarly, an angry troll apparently doomed to wander, cold and lonely, in some vast underground. The adventures of Captain Mighty and the Redemption of Danny the Kid blends history, science fiction and fantasy in a novel unlike anything youve ever read.