In one incarnation, he is Corbyn the Barbarian, facing off against the Maydusa. In another, Corbynman leaves his “mild mannered allotment of solitude” to take on the “inter-dimensional invasion fleet of Daily Mail death drones blasting everything with their Tory food bank rays” with a rallying battle cry of “jam on!”. Just in time for the Labour party conference, an unlikely superhero is preparing to take his place alongside the likes of Spider-Man and Wonder Woman: Jeremy Corbyn.

Independent graphic novel publisher SelfMadeHero says it has received a “tsunami” of submissions since it opened its doors to comic-book creators a month ago, asking for comics on the subject of the Labour leader. Contributors to The Corbyn Comic Book, which will be launched at the Labour party conference in Brighton in September, include Guardian cartoonists Steve Bell, Martin Rowson and Stephen Collins, and comics artists Karrie Fransman and Steven Appleby, along with a host of strips from new writers and illustrators received during the open submission period.

‘Corbynman’ © Martin Rowson. Photograph: SelfMadeHero

Many of the comics feature Corbyn making and wielding jars of jam – the Labour party leader’s culinary hobby – while others have chosen to anoint Corbyn with superhuman powers. In Lethal Corbyn III, with a repeated chant of “Oooooh Jeremy Corbyn” echoing through the air, the leader of the opposition clenches his fists and transforms into a superhero, crushing the skull of a robotic version of Theresa May beneath his boot. Elsewhere, he and his cat El Gato stalk the night, seeing off Tories attempting to resurrect Thatcher from the dead.

“Corbyn has numerous quirks that lend themselves to these kind of light-hearted stories such as his allotment, the jam-making and El Gato, all stories that have made it into the Corbyn Comic Book,” said SelfMadeHero’s managing director Emma Hayley, who said the project was “born out of Corbyn’s rise in popularity and his status as a cultural phenomenon”.

From ‘Welcome to Britsville’. © Louis Netter and Olly Gruner. Photograph: SelfMadeHero

When SelfMadeHero put out the call for submissions, there was a “huge” response. “Just as Corbyn seems to have captured the imagination of the people, so has our comic book about him. It’s a bit of a departure from what we would ordinarily do, but it was the right time to do it,” she said. “We received over a hundred new submissions for the book and we’re thrilled that the idea has been so well received.”

While the book will be launched from a table at the Labour party conference, Hayley said it had also had a “really good” response from booksellers – like Blackwells’s sales manager Dave Kelly, who said that “the Jeremy Corbyn effect was certainly felt in the shop through book sales and conversations both on the shopfloor and in the staff room... [The Corbyn Comic Book] should appeal to Old Lefties, Corbynites and maybe even some Brexiteers too.”

From ‘JAM’ © Richard Dearing Photograph: SelfMadeHero

While she herself is a Corbyn fan – “I don’t think I’d have done it otherwise” – Hayley says the anthology is “light-hearted, not particularly political – we did it more to show that a phenomenal thing happened in the elections, as that ‘oh Jeremy Corbyn’ chant swept the country.”

American politicians have trod the pages of comic books in the past – Barack Obama appeared in a Spider-Man graphic novel, and also starred as the “mighty hero” Barack the Barbarian, taking on “Boosh the Dim” and “Cha-nee the Grim”. But Hayley was unable to name another time that a UK political leader had been immortalised in graphic novel form.

“I can’t think of a comic which has had one of our prime ministers on the front,” she said. “But this is the right time for the Corbyn comic.”

But what does Corbyn the Barbarian think of it all? A spokesperson for Jeremy Corbyn told the Guardian: “With great power comes great responsibility.”