(CNN) -- Every once in a while a story about an individual saving a life makes a big splash. But it's rare to find five such stories of bravery clustered together in fewer than eight days. From the teens who thwarted a kidnapping to the real-life superheroes who emerged at Comic-Con, here are five examples plucked from a week of headlines about human beings risking their own lives in some cases to assist their fellow travelers: . . Mobile viewers unable to see the Storify below, click this link.
Recent days have seen a spate of heroics . Teens on bicycles thwart kidnapping in Pennsylvania . River guide gets one chance to save unconscious man . Stuntmen at Comic-Con perform real-life rescue .