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Law Is His Secret Power Saving the world from the forces of evil? Easy! Saving the world from the forces of evil while not breaking the law? Better call Ingersoll... Over twenty-five years ago, practicing attorney and public defender Bob Ingersoll began writing a column for Comics Buyer's Guide about how comic-book authors all too often get the law wrong in their stories. In addition to exposing bad law and explaining how the likes of Batman, the Fantastic Four, and the Vigilante might do better next time, he offered his services as a legal consultant for comic-book writers. Notables such as Tony Isabella, Marv Wolfman, Peter David, and Mark Waid took him up on it. Ingersoll's earliest columns are collected in this book, the first in a series. With twenty cases on the docket, from the Flash on trial and the shoddy legal ethics of Matt Murdock, to shocking instances of Vigilante justice and fruit of the Poison(ous) Ivy, Ingersoll restores to comic books the oft-neglected ideals of truth, justice, and the American legal system. FOREWORD BY MARV WOLFMAN