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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2013
  • Latest Book:
    March 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Action Figures

1 - Secret Origins (Sep-2013)
2 - Black Magic Women (Apr-2014)
3 - Pasts Imperfect (Sep-2014)
4 - Cruel Summer (Apr-2015)
5 - Team-Ups (Feb-2016)
6 - Power Play (Mar-2017)
7 - The Black End War (Mar-2018)
8 - Crawling From The Wreckage (Apr-2019)
9 - Hell Hath No Fury (Jan-2020)
10 - Unintended Consequences (May-2021)
11 - Zero Day (Mar-2023)

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot

1 - Scratching a Lich (Sep-2015)
2 - Assassins Brawl (Sep-2016)
3 - Blades of Glory (Oct-2017)
4 - Sworded Affairs (May-2020)
5 - Elfish Motives (Jul-2021)
6 - Twins and Losses (Jan-2022)

Book List in Order: 20 titles



  • It was the worst summer of Carrie Hauser's life, and the weirdest: it was the summer her parents announced they were getting divorced, and when a dying alien passed on to her his fantastic superhuman abilities.All Carrie wants now is to settle into h...



  • The world is full of magic...and it wants the Hero Squad dead.Winter in Kingsport heats up when the necromancer Black Betty comes to town, on the hunt for the Libris Infernalis, a legendary book of dark magic with the power to raise hell on Earth...l...



  • The past is coming back to haunt the Hero Squad. Archimedes, the Squad’s first foe, is finally heading to trial, and the teen heroes aren't exactly looking forward to again facing the man capable of revealing their deepest secrets to the world -- ...



  • His name is uttered in terrified whispers. He's the bad guy the good guys fear. He is the King of Pain, and he's come to Kingsport to put another hero in the ground.The Hero Squad faces their deadliest foe yet, a mysterious killer who hunts within th...



  • In the land of Asaches, there are great men and women who have changed the course of history. Their adventures are honored in song; their names are spoken with a reverence normally reserved for the gods; their heroic deeds have elevated them to the s...



  • The Hero Squad is finished. Their friendships damaged in the wake of the King of Pain incident, perhaps beyond repair, the team go their separate ways to lick their wounds and figure out where their respective paths will take them...and if those path...



  • Innsmouth Look Publishing invites you to explore the worlds of author Michael Bailey in this collection of short stories and a previously unreleased novelette-length story.Action Figures - An Adventure in BabysittingProtecting the innocent? That's ea...



  • You're invited to the wedding of the year! In lieu of gifts, the bride and groom humbly ask that you do not try to murder them.After barely surviving Habbatarr the lich-lord and the Dead City of Hesre, Derek Strongarm and Felix Lightfoot and their c...



  • One of our super-heroes is missing. It took a devastating attack on Kingsport to reunite the Hero Squad, but their reunion proves short-lived after Lightstorm vanishes following the battle, leaving the team without its most powerful member at the wor...






  • Adventurers Wanted!

    Good pay for simple recovery job, payment to be rendered upon successful completion of contract. Interested parties please report to the Woeste City Council. Be ready to provide credentials upon request. No Hruks need appl...



  • On Earth, Carrie Hauser is a hero. But on the far side of the galaxy, she’s just another soldier on the front lines of an interplanetary war. Carrie has barely recovered from thwarting an alien invasion of her home town when she’s whisked away to...



  • One war is over but a new war is beginning, and Lightstorm is once again caught in the crossfire.After eight months in space fighting alongside the Vanguard against the Black End, Carrie “Lightstorm” Hauser comes home to rejoin her friends and fa...



  • A man who desires revenge should dig two graves.A woman who desires revenge needs an entire cemetery.One year ago, Sergeant Rosemary Booker violently ended crime lord Erkan Waldemar's reign of terror - and in doing so, unwittingly awakened in his wif...



  • Heaven doesn't want them.Hell is afraid they'll take over.Since returning to the Limbolike afterlife known as Transition, Rosemary Booker and Erzsébet Báthory have been locked in a cold war for control of the mysterious netherworld, where h...



  • Death couldn't stop her. What chance does the Hero Squad have?The mad necromancer Black Betty Morgan is back from the dead and ready to raise hell - literally.When Black Betty resurfaces to resume her longstanding feud with the Protectorate's residen...



  • When Derek Strongarm, Felix Lightfoot, and their friends are hired to transport a powerful and potentially dangerous magical artifact, they can't help but foresee disaster ahead. They have a rather bad track record, after all. Why should this job pro...



  • No good deed goes unpunished. No sins of the past go unforgotten. A quiet winter ends in chaos when the Hero Squad's darkest secrets are revealed to the world. Every mistake they've ever made, every defeat they've ever suffered, every supervillain th...



  • After surviving an unforgiving winter in the northern city of Além, Derek Strongarm and Felix Lightfoot are eager to lead their friends back to Ambride to enjoy some well-deserved rest and relaxation.That idea goes right out the window when the ...



  • After nearly a year on the road, the company returns to Ambride to take a well-deserved and long overdue respite from adventuring. No exploring ancient ruins, no fighting for their lives against bloodthirsty monsters, just a few weeks of rest and rel...






  • Heroes versus villains. Good versus evil. The Hero Squad versus ShadoWorks.Winner takes all.For three years, the Hero Squad has held the line against ShadoWorks, a mysterious underworld cabal working toward a sinister goal: nothing less than the ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michael C. Bailey has published 20 books.

Michael C. Bailey does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Zero Day, was published in March 2023.

The first book by Michael C. Bailey, Secret Origins, was published in September 2013.

Yes. Michael C. Bailey has 2 series.