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and the
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By STAN KIRBY Illustrated by GEORGE O’CONNOR
No. 10
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Ages 5–7
When STAN KIRBY was six
years old, he tied a beach towel
around his neck and became
Super Commander Beach Boy.
He tried his best to protect sand
castles from the waves, keep
seagulls away from his french
fries, and keep the beach clean.
When Stan’s not creating the
awesome adventures of Captain
Awesome, he loves reading comic
books, eating okra, and hang
gliding (but not at the same time).
cover—as a mild-mannered clerk in one of Gotham’s most beloved children’s bookstores—was completely blown when his first picture book, KAPOW!, exploded onto the scene. Forced to leave the bookselling world behind, he now spends even more time in his secret Brooklyn, New York, hideout—where he uses his amazing artistic powers to strike fear in the hearts of bad guys everywhere!
GEORGE O’CONNOR’S
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Eugene McGillicudy is so excited for the class field trip to the Sunnyview Memorial Zoo. And he’s even more excited to see his favorite animals—the elephants! At the zoo, the class visits lions, tigers, and giraffes. But when they get to the Elephant Habitat, the elephants are nowhere to be found! Is Randy the tour guide really the evil Raging Randonkey trying to ruin the field trip? Can Captain Awesome, along with the help of Nacho Cheese Man and Supersonic Sal, save the day and find the missing elephants?
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On a class field trip to the zoo, the elephants are nowhere to be found! Can the Sunnyview
Superhero Squad save the day and find the missing elephants?
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Table of Contents
1. Tomorrow Is the Day!..............................
2. Tricky Little Miss Stinky Pinky...........
3. Superheroes Get Their Powers from
Cookies.....................................................
4. The Bus Ride of Doom!..........................
5. Elephant Time . . . or Not.......................
6. Beware the Brussels Sprouter .................
7. Why DO Giraffes Have Spots?....................
8. Elephant Hide-and-Seek............................
9. The Total Best Gift of
Awesomeness!...............................................
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Two words:FIELD!TRIP! What? Oh! FIELD TRIP! Aside from “no homework,” are
there two greater words in the his-
tory of school? The words “fi eld”
and “trip” together promise a day of
fun, a day away from school, and a
day where anything can happen.
Those words are the chocolate
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and peanut butter of education.
And for Eugene, this choco-
late-y, peanut-butter-y, fi eld-trippy
goodness was all going to happen
tomorrow.
“Don’t forget to bring your
permission slips, class,” said
Ms. Beasley, “or you won’t be
going to the zoo.”
Eugene McGillicudy wouldn’t
miss a fi eld trip any more than he’d
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miss New Comic Book Day at the
comic book store. That’s because
the Sunnyview Memorial Zoo had
the greatest animals in the world.
“Just think of it, Charlie,”
Eugene said to his best friend,
Charlie Thomas Jones. “Lions with
razor-sharp laser claws!”
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“And tigers with stripes of invis-
ibility!” Charlie added.
“And hippopom . . . hippotap . . .
um . . . hippos, with their giant mud-
covered butts of stinky stink,” Eugene
said.
“And don’t forget the elephants!”
Charlie said. “With their supertrunk
powers and huge, flappy ears that
can whip up the Whistling Wind of
Seven Cyclones!”
“That’s right!” Eugene agreed.
“Especially elephants.”
AWESOME!Eugene thought of that time in
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Super Dude No. 18, the story The
Power Trunk Powers of Elephantom,
when Super Dude teamed up with
Super Duper Elephantom to stomp
Peanut Parker into crunchy pea-
nut butter and spread him on giant
pumpernickel toast.
What’s that you say? Super
Dude? You’ve heard of him, right?
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WHAT? You mean you don’t know the
answer to the easiest question in
the Easy Question Book of Easy
Questions?
Question one: WHO
IS SUPER DUDE?
Answer: Super
Dude is the world’s
greatest superhero—
he’s greater than Mr. Greatman and
more rad than King Power Rad, the
really powerful leader of Radsyl-
vania. Super Dude is the superhero
who once knocked the stuffi ng out
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of the evil Teddy Bearenstein and
dried up the deadly Spitballer before
he could fi re his lava spit from his
Ultra Plastic Straw of Evil.
But Super Dude was more
than a true hero and Eugene’s
favorite of all time. He was the
reason Eugene became Sunny-
view’s first and most awe-
some superhero. That’s
right. Eugene had
a secret identity:
He was: CAPTAIN
AWESOME!
MI-TEE!
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It’s true. Sunnyview had its
very own superhero! And not just
one, either.
There was . . . ANOTHER!
Charlie was the superhero
Nacho Cheese Man—the only hero
with the power of canned cheese!
CHEESY YO!CHEESY YO!
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Along with their class’s superpet
hamster, Turbo, Eugene and Charlie
formed the Sunnyview Superhero
Squad to stop the eviling of bad guys
and to keep Sunnyview safe.
But what happened when they
discovered that their neighbor
Sally Williams was also a “Keep
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