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Captain Underpants · Book 1

The Adventures of Captain Underpants

by Dav Pilkey
Published
1 September 1997
Pages
128
ISBN-13
9780590846288
Type
novel
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About this book

The Adventures of Captain Underpants opens the Captain Underpants series, first published in 1997. It is followed by Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets.

Key facts about The Adventures of Captain Underpants

The Adventures of Captain Underpants is a novel by Dav Pilkey. Readers have had it since 1 September 1997. It runs to 128 pages.

Our list holds 3 editions of The Adventures of Captain Underpants. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780590846288 to find the main one.

The Adventures of Captain Underpants is book 1 of 12 in the Captain Underpants series. The series has 12 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 25 August 2015.

Additionally, Dav Pilkey writes Dragon, Big Dog and Little Dog and Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot, plus 2 more series. Those series sit on our humor and graphic novel shelves. Meanwhile, Dog Man: A Sprinkle in Time is the latest published Dav Pilkey book on file, from 3 November 2026.

About Dav Pilkey

Dav Pilkey is an American author and illustrator best known for creating Captain Underpants, an irreverent, wildly popular children's graphic-novel series about two fourth-graders who hypnotize their principal into believing he is a superhero in his underwear. See every Dav Pilkey book in order.

Its place in Captain Underpants

The Adventures of Captain Underpants is book 1 in the Captain Underpants series. It is followed by Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets. See the full Captain Underpants reading order.

Fourth-graders George Beard and Harold Hutchins are the class prankster duo and comic-book creators of their own hero, Captain Underpants -- so when they hypnotize their tyrannical principal, Mr. Krupp, into actually believing he is Captain Underpants, chaos (and a very literal superhero in tighty-whities) is unleashed on their school. Each book pits the accidentally-real Captain Underpants against an increasingly absurd villain -- alien cafeteria ladies, a mutant plant-fertilizer monster, a time-traveling toilet…

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