India, Nov. 1 -- Ant-Man may be fictional, but the insect world is full of superheroes, of a kind.

There's a spider with a lethal high-speed trap. Worms that can knot and unknot themselves. An acrobatic six-legged bug.

These super-creatures are starring in their own comic books too.

For five years, Saad Bhamla, 38, has been editor of The Curious Zoo of Extraordinary Organisms. Each edition holds illustrated tales told through a series of panels, usually across two pages. The accounts feature key highlights from research at the Bhamla Lab of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

Bhamla, after all, isn't an artist or a storyteller; he is an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, working with other biophy...