As of 2014, the series has been translated into more than 20 languages, with more than 80 million books sold worldwide, including over 50 million in the United States. Krupp also possesses superhuman strength, durability and flight as a result of drinking alien 'Extra-Strength Super Power Juice'.Ĭurrently, the series includes 12 books, two activity books, 15 spin-offs, coloured version and won a Kids' Choice Award on April 4, 2006. The series revolves around two fourth graders, George Beard and Harold Hutchins, living in Piqua, Ohio, and Captain Underpants, an aptly named superhero from one of the boys' homemade comic books, who accidentally becomes real when George and Harold hypnotize their cruel, bossy, and ill-tempered principal, Mr. Captain Underpants is an illustrated children's graphic novel series by American author and illustrator Dav Pilkey.
