Lee Kirby

Very little verifiable personal or background information is publicly available about an author named Lee Kirby connected to the Super Turbo series. Review sources identify “Lee Kirby” as the credited author of the early Super Turbo chapter books, including Super Turbo and the Fire-Breathing Dragon, the fifth title in the series of humorous, school-based superhero adventures about a class pet hamster at Sunnyview Elementary.

The Super Turbo books, published by Little Simon, follow Turbo and a league of classroom pets as they face outlandish threats such as flying ninja squirrels, evil rats, and a suspected fire‑breathing “dragon” in the school science lab. The series is written for young readers in roughly kindergarten through fourth grade, and several entries have also been adapted into full-color graphic novels credited to Edgar Powers, closely mirroring the original stories published under the Lee Kirby byline.