Squadron Supreme TP New Printing

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Before Watchmen, before MARVELS, before Kingdom Come – there was Squadron Supreme, a deconstructionist parable of the super-hero paradigm in a real-world setting. Published before such stories became commonplace, it set the standard for post-modernist super-hero fiction and influenced a generation of creators. On an Earth much like our own, the world’s greatest superhuman champions are confronted by a society in ruins. Faced with the possibility of a new dark age for mankind, they choose the only course available to them – and take control of the world’s governments themselves. Now they have one year in which to completely restructure human society. Can their plan succeed? Will a renegade member bring about their downfall? And what will happen when the Earth’s mightiest heroes find themselves becoming instead its all-powerful, totalitarian overlords? Considered by many to be the finest work of the late Mark Gruenwald, the original groundbreaking series is collected here in its entirety.