Big Bad Ironclad!: Bigger & Badder Edition (Nathan Hale''s Hazardous Tales #2) : A Civil War Tale

Experience author-illustrator Nathan Hale’s New York Times bestselling graphic novel Big Bad Ironclad: Bigger & Badder Edition in a deluxe, oversized edition featuring 16 brand-new pages of mini comics.

This special edition of Big Bad Ironclad features a larger trim size, a deluxe package, and 16 pages of bonus material, which includes research photos, sketches, and mini comics from the author.

In the 1800s, the waterways of America were full of powerful wooden ships carrying goods from place to place. These ships were great for transport, but they had one major problem . . . they tended to sink when hit with cannon balls.

As the Civil War battles took to the waves, soldiers on both sides started to wonder, what if these ships were made of something stronger? If they could build a boat out of iron, wouldn’t it be stronger than any other warship? It was these question that launched the race between the North and South to create the biggest, best ironclad warship.

In Big Bad Ironclad! learn the story of the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (also called the Merrimack)—two of the world’s first ironclad ships—and their fascinating role in the Civil War. As these ships barrel toward battle, learn about the many political and military leaders, from President Lincoln and his cabinet to secretary of the Navy and “Father Neptune” Gideon Welles, who helped lead the North to victory.

When these two massive ships finally face off, it will be a battle that changes warfare forever. 

“These books are, quite simply, brilliant. . . . Thrilling, bloody, action-packed stories from American history.” —New York Times

Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales! Read them all—if you dare!

• One Dead Spy: A Revolutionary War Tale (#1)
• Big Bad Ironclad!: A Civil War Tale (#2)
• Donner Dinner Party: A Pioneer Tale (#3)
• Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood: A World War I Tale (#4)
• The Underground Abductor: An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman (#5)
• Alamo All-Stars: A Texas Tale (#6)
• Raid of No Return: A World War II Tale of the Doolittle Raid (#7)
• Lafayette!: A Revolutionary War Tale (#8)
• Major Impossible: A Grand Canyon Tale (#9)
• Blades of Freedom: A Tale of Haiti, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase (#10)
• Cold War Correspondent: A Korean War Tale (#11)
• Above the Trenches: A WWI Flying Ace Tale (#12)
• Bones and Bersekers: 13 True Tales of Terror from American History (#13)
• Web of War: A World War II Tale (#14)