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About once a month, a package of comic books arrives in my mailbox from my father. We’ve been reading comics together ever since The Death of Superman, the media-hyped story from 1992 in which the iconic hero perished in an all-out battle against the monster Doomsday. (He got better.) The comic sold more than 6 million copies, one of them to us. That event ignited a love of comics in 10-year-olds like me and reintroduced it to adults like my father, who hadn’t purchased a superhero comic since his own teenage years. Our local comic shop reaps the rewards to this day.

Alex Segura's Secret Identity blends prose and comics. We talked to the author about the process, the book's superhero, and more.

Alex Segura will discuss his new novel "Secret Identity" March 29 in a virtual event held by the Mark Twain House and Museum,

It seems like everything Alex Segura has worked on during his wildly diverse career in comics and fiction writing has led him to this moment. His newest work, the novel Secret Identity from Flatiron Books, is a murder-mystery set in the world of comic book publishing in mid-1970s New York City.

Alex Segura’s Secret Identity, a new comic book mystery thriller, has just released this week via Flatiron Books. Read an excerpt from one of the chapters released online here.