Every superhero has to start somewhere, and childhood dreams turned into the real thing for these famous figures from comic book lore.
This series of illustrations by Andy Fairhurst is called When I Grow Up I Wanna Be..., and they depict the silhouettes of kids at play to show what some superfolks were doing before they gained all that power and life saving responsibility.
Avengers assemble....in the sandlot!
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