Superman's Good Guy Gang 2025 FCBD Special Edition (2025-) #1

Superman's Good Guy Gang

by Rob Justus

Clark Kent befriends fellow super powered kids––Hawkgirl and Guy Gardner, the Green Lantern––for a super team up in this sneak preview of DC’s debut early readers graphic novel! This Free comic Book Day edition is an excerpt from the book which published a couple months later.

In the full graphic novel, Superman's Good Guy Gang. eight-year-old Clark Kent is pretty super-fast, super-strong, and super-cool! But being so super can also be super lonely, until he meets fellow super-powered kids Kendra Saunders and Guy Gardner, a.k.a. Hawkgirl and Green Lantern! Together, they’ll form a club where other supers can be themselves, test their powers, grow together, and maybe earn some good-guy points along the way. Future books in the series will include Mr. Terrific,Batman, Wonder Woman, and more as the Good Guy Gang grows!

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics, Superman

Kindle Edition

First published July 1, 2025

About the author

Formerly an award-winning market researcher, Rob Justus is a self-taught debut author/illustrator who raised himself on a classic diet of comics and Saturday morning cartoons. His debut picture book,Kid Coach, was published in 2020; this is his first graphic novel. Rob lives and doodles near Ottawa, Canada.

source: Amazon

Reviews

[Jen · Rating 1 out of 5]

Just STOP with the character assassination of Superman. He would NEVER have been like this as a child, NEVER. I’m sure his adoptive parents were in the picture and raised him properly.

The catchphrase has been and always will be “Truth, Justice and the American Way”. Superman was created the way he was FOR A REASON. To retcon and make him less than what he originally stood for, kindness, justice, protection and care of others, etc., is to spit on the ideals that created him and to lower the bar of what we should all strive for.

Just a kids book, so I should lighten up? No. What we teach our children, in work and in play, is important. This is not worth even reading in fun.

I had gotten this for my nephew before I read it and now it’s going straight to the trash.

This is not the first children’s geared super hero book where Superman’s character was being destroyed. I’m afraid it won’t be the last.

1, I recommend this to no one, stars.

[Leslie Carnahan · Rating 4 out of 5]

SUPER cute! My nephew is gonna LOVE this!

[Stephanie Bange · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Super" reading for super emergent readers.

Using a very limited vocabulary, this DC series will appeal to readers who want to independently read about a superhero and feel success at having done it themselves.

In this first book of the series, 8-year-old Clark Kent realizes his super powers set him aside to the point he is lonely. When a young Lex Luthor tries to be his friend, Superman is not interested and flies off. He meets another super kid flying in the sky - a young Green Lantern. They run into Hawkgirl who is saving some puppies from being frozen (this seems inconsistent with the image of smoke and fire). Together the trio battle a giant milkshake making robot built by Lex Luthor and form the "Good Guy Gang".

Super easy text will be super fun to read super fast. Since it is not too difficult, they will feel rewarded and hunger for more reading "candy" - one way to get them to enjoy reading. A step above 3-letter words, this has some great sight words that include terms such as: awesome, poisoning, science, thought, laugh, and fighting.

Optional purchase for ages 4-6.

[Daniel Franco]

Este lo elegí en el FCBD porque la portada con un Superman animado para niños me recordó a Gastón de la Bella y la Bestia. Me llamó la atención. Creo que el arte para niños también tiene demasiado talento y una vertiente que no cualquiera puede lograr.

Creo que este cómic lo logra, y lo hace bien!

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Starring Lil Superman and Lil Green Lantern.

The boys encounter Hawkgirl with some puppies.

They believe she is a villain, and that she’s stolen the helpless canines.

Cute story.

The illustration style does veer basic. It’s oversimplified, and could use more precision.

Includes a sneak peek at Aquamanatee.

[Norman Cook · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book for kids features simple, stylized artwork and kid-friendly versions of DC superheroes (as kids themselves). It's cute. I highly recommend it for kids as a future gateway to the regular DC universe.

[Cara Byrne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Much like the Spidey and Friends series, this book introduces young readers to a superhero and villains with familiar conflicts that might be found in picture books or early readers. My kindergarten-age kiddo was engaged in this story, and it felt a lot like a superhero comic primer!

[DOUGLAS J BERRY · Rating 5 out of 5]

Saturday morning

Good color artwork. Previews of lite summer reading for kids. Part of the2025 free comic day bonanza. Cowabunga Cowabunga Cowabunga

[Robert Kimberlin · Rating 5 out of 5]

A NICE FUN COMIC. LOOKING FORWARD TO MORE.

[Holly Letson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I bet this will be a cute story.
So will *Aquamanatee*.

[Sarah Threlkeld · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun and funny early graphic with lots of kid appeal.

[Dominique · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great spin on beloved characters. Very cute art and nice story. Great book for kids.

[Librarian Jessie (BibliophileRoses) · Rating 1 out of 5]

Knew it was off to an interesting start when it began with Green lantern spotting Hawk Girl and saying, “Look! She’s stealing those puppies! She’s probably going to eat them.”

[Esme_weatherwax · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good beginning comic. Words and drawings are large and easy to read. Could be a little longer though

[Julie Ditton · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed Superman's Good Guy Gang which told the story of eight year old Superman forming a good guy gang of superhero kids. This free comic book day edition is not to be confused with the later book. You get what you pay for- this free comic is a sneak preview that acts like a movie trailer, with a excerpt from the middle of the story.