Post-September 11, the comic book community banded together in a spirit of generosity. With profits earmarked for charity, creators and publishers of every stripe contributed gratis to five different 9/11-related projects, totaling over 750 pages of work. The best of these books, 9-11: Emergency Relief and 9-11: Artists Respond commemorate a powerful good in response to a powerful evil.
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