Reginald Hargreeves, a millionaire inventor, adopts seven children born spontaneously by women who were not pregnant, and the siblings form The Umbrella Academy, a family of strange superheroes who fight a deranged Eiffel Tower and eventually disband and reunite when their father dies.
year: 2008, 2009, 2019
call number/section: 741.5, 1000
subjects: heroes, fiction, brothers and sisters, good and evil, extraterrestrial beings, heroes and heroines, superheroes, siblings, superhero graphic novels, fantasy graphic novels, science fiction graphic novels, comic books, strips, etc, graphic novels, superhero comic books, strips, etc, fantasy comic books, strips, etc, science fiction comic books, strips, etc, graphic novels, comic books, strips, etc, robots, teenagers, fantasy comic books, strips, etc, science fiction comic books, strips, etc, aliens (fictional characters), superhero comics, fantasy comics, science fiction comics
Editions
Way, Gerard
Dark Horse Books (2008)
Reginald Hargreeves, a millionaire inventor, adopts seven children born spontaneously by women who were not pregnant, and the siblings form The Umbrella Academy, a family of strange superheroes who fight a deranged Eiffel Tower and eventually disband and reunite when their father dies.
Schools: 7
Way, Gerard
Dark Horse Books (2009)
Catastrophic events call for the team to regroup but White Violin, Rumor, Spaceboy, Number Five, and The Kraken are all preoccupied with individual problems.
Schools: 7
Way, Gerard
While his children are spread across the globe, Sir Reginald Hargreeves finds solace in Hotel Oblivion while the past comes back to haunt the superheroes of the Umbrella Academy.
Schools: 5
Way, Gerard
Dark Horse Books (2019)
"Faced with an increasing number of lunatics with superpowers eager to fight his own wunderkind brood, Sir Reginald Hargreeves developed the ultimate solution ... But their past is coming back to haunt them"--Back cover.
Schools: 0