The children's series "Captain Underpants" has surprisingly topped the list of the most banned books in America in 2012, beating out the much more controversial title "Fifty Shades of Grey." ...

(CNN) -- Here's what you need to know about Captain Underpants, in brief: He's a pudgy comic superhero in a red cape and white undies, who flies through the pages of a series of children's books ...

Let's face it. When you're a kid, sometimes adults can be a real drag. The new Captain Underpants book puts it this way: "Did you ever notice how grown-ups hate it when kids are having fun?" ...

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie is a 2017 American computer-animated superhero comedy film based on Dav Pilkey's children's novel series of the same name. It stars the voices of Kevin ...

A Michigan elementary school has banned the latest “Captain Underpants” novel from its book fair because one of the main characters is gay, according to a report ...

Because he's the author and illustrator of the hugely popular "Captain Underpants" series -- also a big movie this past summer. It's about a mean grade school principal who is hypnotized by two ...

A children's graphic novel from the immensely popular "Captain Underpants" series will no longer be found in library and book store shelves after the publisher deemed it to contain "passive racism.

Before she joined Vox in 2014, she was the first TV editor of the A.V. Club. I don’t think Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie should be as good as it is — which is to say, light and ...

In the late 1990s, Dav Pilkey launched the first children’s novel of the Captain Underpants series—a series which would become tremendously popular among young readers. Despite the series ...

20th Century Fox’s animated adventure Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie tells the story of a grouchy principal who turns into the underwear-clad, super-powered invention of his two least ...