''The Life and Times of Savior 28'', is a five-issue comic book

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. The story deals with Savior 28, a Golden Age superhero who over the course of seven decades renounces violence: "'To be... or not to be!' How can a man go on living when everything he's ever believed is revealed as a lie? That's the question Savior 28 is forced to ask as we follow him across the decades, from the ashes of Buchenwald to the ashes of

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in this exploration of the dark underbelly of the super hero dream."Trade paperback blurb, ''The Life And Times of Savior 28'' (IDW Publishing, 2009).

Publication history

Background

In an interview, writer DeMatteis discussed the impetus for Savior 28:

Collected editions

''The Life and Times of Savior 28'' has been published as a

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