Comic-tanium: The Super Materials of the Superheroes is a new educational exhibit that reveals how Batman, Iron Man, Wonder Woman, and other favorite comic characters use minerals, metals, and materials science and engineering to boost their powers and save their worlds.

Comic-tanium's mission is as critical as any assigned to

the superheroes it celebrates: to inspire K-12 students to

Scientists and engineers are "living super heroes" who make sure that we have the materials we need for a safer, healthier, and more advanced society. To put it 

simply, materials make things work. The cars we drive, the smart phones we use, the generators that we rely on for electricity-and so much more-are part of our world because people have been able to engineer materials in innumerable ways.

Comic-tanium makes these material connections by teaming up comic art reproductions, vintage comic books, movie props, and artifacts with related scientific images and stories from the real world.

Comic-tanium will be open to the public for unguided visits during MOST library operating hours. We suggest calling ahead to make sure that the exhibit will be open during the time you plan to visit.

For more information on Comic-tanium at Cranberry Public Library, email comic_tanium@cranberrylibrary.org

Comic-tanium is brought to Cranberry Library by: