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Kurt Busiek’s creator-owned series is fairly straightforward, although there are probably some variations with the material that was published around the Dark Age series.  I have chosen to group all of the “present day” material together prior to the Dark Age.

Volume 1:  Life in the City
Kurt Busiek’s Astro City (mini) #1-6
Kurt Busiek’s Astro City #1/2
Kurt Busiek’s Astro City (ongoing) #1-13

Volume 2:  Local Heroes
Kurt Busiek’s Astro City (ongoing) #14-22
six page story from 9/11 Volume 2
Astro City:  Local Heroes #1-5
Astro City Special:  Supersonic
Astro City Visitor’s Guide
Astro City:  Samaritan
Astro City:  Beautie
Astro City:  Astra #1-2

Volume 3:  The Dark Age
Astro City/Arrowsmith Flip Book (AC portion only)
Astro City:  The Dark Age Book 1 #1-4
Astro City:  The Dark Age Book 2 #1-4
Astro City:  The Dark Age Book 3 #1-4
Astro City:  The Dark Age Book 4 #1-4
Astro City:  Silver Agent #1-2

Volume 4
Astro City (Vertigo series) #1-26

Volume 5
Astro City (Vertigo series) #27-52

I originally planned to keep having about 20 issues per volume going into the Vertigo series, with breakpoints after issues #21 and #41 (the “100th” issue), but then the series was announced to end at #52 before switching to an OGN format.  I didn’t want to combine the series with the OGNs for various reasons mostly to due with the erratic scheduling.  There were three options — have volume 6 only be 11 issues, reconfigure the three volumes to be shorter than 20 issues, or condense into two volumes of 26 issues each.  As it turns out, #26 was the 20th anniversary issue and makes for a good breakpoint.  I can deal with the slightly larger volumes.