This set of photos by Agan Harahap sets the fictitious characters we see in comic books and other such media placed in historical events.

Spiderman fighting in the streets, Cherbourg-Normandy 1944.


Batman giving orders to troops in Greenham Common Airfield, England, 1944.

Darth Vader with Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Josef Stalin. February 1945.

Superman with soldiers from the 7th US Army carry the priceless artworks down the steps of Neunschwanstein Castle where hoards of European art treasures, stolen by the Nazis, were hidden during World War II.

The Incredible Hulk with Afghan resistance fighters returning to a village destroyed by Soviet forces, 1986.

(All images from Agan Harahap’s Flickr photostream.)

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