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Hunger Action Heroes Unite!

Hunger relief organization Feeding San Diego created both a comic book and curriculum that can be used in classrooms to teach students about issues surrounding hunger and the environment.

The Marvel Age of Comics

Spider-Man and Project Mercury

The amazing Spider-Man helps a crippled space capsule return safely to Earth while the real-world Mercury Seven astronauts wait for the opportunity to travel into the vast unknown.

Green Arrow and His Times

Green Arrow: Racial Profiling

In 2016, writer Benjamin Percy tackled the subject of racial profiling in a multi-issue narrative of Green Arrow in which a floating machine with tentacles targets African Americans in Seattle.

Comic Books and the Real World

Star Trek: Threads of Destiny

Actress Nichelle Nichols met civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1967 while her Star Trek character Lieutenant Nyota Uhura had a similar encounter in a February 2026 comic book.