We all know that Abraham Lincoln gave the historic Gettysburg Address and ended the Civil War. But did you also know that he pardoned the first White House turkey, once snuck into Washington in disguise, and grew his famous beard because an eleven-year-old girl said it made him look less ugly?! Read all about the radical rail-splitter, supreme speaker, and paramount president Abraham Lincoln in the second Action Presidents book, where the history...

The reason Wolverine never tells anybody about his birthday is that every year on that date Sabretooth shows up to dice him into cutlets. Now the love of his life, with whom he is sharing his birthday dinner, is in grave danger!

Kitty Pryde writes a Dear Diary entry covering August 20, her first day of classes at the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters. She describes other mutants at the school, how Professor X found her, and her first X-Men mission, accompanying Wolverine to investigate a powerful mutant presence in an isolated town in West Virginia.

While Professor X, Dr. MacTagert, Banshee, and others go out to dinner, Logan stays home to watch the seventh game of the Stanley Cup finals and look after Piotr's sister, Illyana. Kitty Pryde, Siryn, and Amp agree to keep Illyana entertained. The girls explore the basement and run a training program involving robot replicas of evil mutants. They soon become bored with the program, leaving it running while they play a game of "Spin the Secrets," leading...

As Tony Stark battles an Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.) siege engine, he reflects on how he became Iron Man following his capture six months earlier by A.I.M., who planned to force him to create weapons for them. To escape he teams up with Professor Gia-Bao Yinsen. The two build special iron suits to protect them on their way out of the A.I.M. facility.

Spymaster has seized remote control of Iron Man's armor and sent Shellhead on a rampage of destruction through New York! Can Rhodey figure out how to free the Armored Avenger before Hammer takes over Tony Stark's company along with his alter-ego?