ComicBinding.com » Kurt Busiek http://comicbinding.com A Community for Comic Binding Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:47:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 Astro City http://comicbinding.com/mapping/astro-city http://comicbinding.com/mapping/astro-city#comments Mon, 21 Aug 2017 15:47:14 +0000 http://comicbinding.com/?p=4919 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:  Private Lives
Astro City (Vertigo series) #1-26

Volume 5:  Ordinary Heroes
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 do 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.

Also note that #33 contains a printing error on page 3, as the lettering was all shifted down and some dialogue was left off the page.  The error was corrected for the digital and TPB versions of the issue.

]]> http://comicbinding.com/mapping/astro-city/feed 0 Avengers (Busiek/Perez) http://comicbinding.com/mapping/avengers-busiekperez http://comicbinding.com/mapping/avengers-busiekperez#comments Sun, 10 Apr 2011 16:31:51 +0000 http://comicbinding.com/?p=1661 Here is a complete mapping of the Busiek/Perez Avengers.  This includes all crossover issues and makes a nice 3 volume set.

Volume 1
1-6
Iron Man 7 (Live Kree or Die Part 1)
Captain America 8 (Live Kree or Die Part 2)
Quicksilver 10 (Live Kree or Die Part 3)
7 (Live Kree or Die Part 4)
Annual 98
8-12
Rough Cut 1

Volume 2
13-18
Annual 99
0
19-23
Iron Man 21 (Eighth Day Part 0)
Thor 17 (Eighth Day Part 1)
Iron Man 22 (Eighth Day Part 2)
Spider-Man 11 (Eighth Day Part 3)
Juggernaut the Eighth Day 1 (Eighth Day Part 4)
24 (Eighth Day Part 5)
25 (Eighth Day Part 6)

Volume 3
26-27
Annual 2000
28-31
Thunderbolts 42
32
Thunderbolts 43
33
Thunderbolts 44
34
JLA/Avengers 1-4

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