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All Heroes!

About Comicbooks for Kids!

CB4K is a GuideStar/Candid Platinum-rated 501(c)(3), a recognition held by fewer than 0.5% of 1% of the 1.8 million nonprofits in the United States. Our mission is simple, provide comic books and pop culture items to the over 200 hospitals and cancer centers we support across North America. Our sister charities, ComicBooks For Troops and ComicBooks For Schools provide many of these same items while providing positive distraction and promoting literacy. Please look around and make a difference through your donations.

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REtailer? Publisher? Collector? Just want to Help? Here is how!

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REtailers, Hospitals, Collectors, Donors

Here's how you can make the mission happen every day.

RETAILERS

Have comics, graphic novels, stories taking up shelf space? Put them to work.

Your donation can become a child's favorite book.

Have you seen our retailer kit?

RETAILER PAGE

Make a Financial Gift!

Cash donations fund the shipping, supplies, and sorting that keep comics moving.

Every dollar goes directly toward getting books where they belong.

See the many ways to donate

HOSPITALS

Child life specialists, pediatric care teams, and approved organizations can request comics for children in their care.

The process is simple, and the books are always free.

Hospital Page Enrollment

Collectors, influencers, streamers

All have hosted drives for CB4K.

It's easy to organize and deeply meaningful to the kiddoss who benefit.

Donate from your collection or host your own drive!

How to gather and donate

Every day, children across the country face hospital stays that are scary, lonely, and long. Your donation sends them something better than a waiting room — a world to escape into, a hero to root for, and a story that's entirely their own.

450,000+

Comics and items donated and shipped

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Stories Go Where They're Needed Most

A hospital stay can take so much from a child — routines, school, friends, and the feeling of a normal day. A comic book can't fix that. But it can offer a few hours of adventure, laughter, and imagination.

And sometimes, that's exactly enough.

ComicBooks for Kids! partners with donors, comic shops, publishers, volunteers, and hospitals to get age-appropriate comics into the hands of children who need them. No cost to hospitals. No cost to families. Just good stories, delivered with care.

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Supported by the Best in the Business

CB4K's 2026 industry supporters include some of the most recognized names in comics and pop culture — because the people who make these stories believe in getting them to the kids who need them most.

Publishers

RETAILERS