Title: The Death-Ray
Description: Andy, a miserable high-schooler in 1970s Chicago, has only one friend, an angry fellow outcast named Louie. He's desperately in love with a girl he met in California who won't return his letters and he's filled with shame at the constant taunts of his classmates. When he achieves super strength from smoking cigarettes he uses it for neither good nor evil but in a brutal playground showdown.
Subjects: New York Times bestseller, nyt:hardcover_graphic_books=2011-10-15, Comics & graphic novels, science fiction, Teenagers, Comic books, strips, Superheroes, High schools, Nineteen seventies, Superhero comic books, strips