The World Trade Center complex was featured in numerous other comics as well. Most of the Marvel Comics' heroes reside in New York City, so views of the towers were not uncommon. The fall of the towers forms part of the plot of Ken Kalfus' novel A Disorder Peculiar to the Country, and the attack also appears on its paperback cover. Philippe Petit's tightrope walk in 1974 between the two towers is fictionalized in Colum McCann's novel of 1970s New York, Let the Great World Spin. The book was published in September 1984 as the first original title from the newly created Vintage Contemporaries imprint.
The Towers also appeared on the paperback cover of Big City, Bright Lights, Jay McInerney's iconic novel of 1980s New York. and in Godzilla: Monster Apocalypse, the prequel novel of Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters anime film, the giant mantis Kamacuras appeared in New York City in May 1999, and proceeded to destroy the World Trade Center and devastate much of the city, leaving 2.5 million casualties. Similarly, The World Trade Center can be seen on the cover of Anne Gutman and Georg Hallensleben's children's book Lisa in New York (The Misadventures of Gaspard and Lisa), which was published in 2002, a year after the building complex was destroyed. The World Trade Center's Twin Towers appear on the cover of Wilt Chamberlain's 1991 reissue of his book A View From Above. Dozens of people are saved by this method, before the breeches buoy is overwhelmed in a panic, and crashes to the ground below.
In Richard Martin Stern's novel The Tower (1973), a breeches buoy line shot from a helicopter is used to link the World Trade Center's North Tower to the neighboring (fictional and taller) "World Tower Building," in order to rescue of hundreds of people trapped by a fire.
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