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Issue: Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes #2
Publication Date: January 2009
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Issues: #2 of 2 Issues (3 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct Edition
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MarvelView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Publishing Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/10/2008
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: 75960606577600211
Price: $3.99 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Axel Alonso; Daniel Ketchum (assistant editor); Joe Quesada (editor in chief); Dan Buckley (publisher); Spring Hoteling (book design); Irene Lee (production); Alex Starbuck (editorial assistant)
Disclose Notes: Indicia information:
Published Monthly by MARVEL PUBLISHING, INC., a subsidiary of MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
Office of Publication: 417 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016.
© 2008 Marvel Characters, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Limited Series
Format Notes:  
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reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:
FlagAstonishing X-Men: Ghost Box #[nn] published January 2009 as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Original Artwork
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Simone Bianchi
Inker(s): Simone Bianchi (ink washes); Andrea Silvestri (ink washes)
Colorist(s): Simone Peruzzi
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Character(s): Emma Frost [White Queen]; Wolverine [Logan]
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Artist division of labor based on credits to issue #1 -- this issue simply credits all three of them as "Cover Artists". Unusually, the cover is *not* signed.
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Previously in Astonishing X-Men

Reprise  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Last Testament of Scott Summers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Warren Ellis
Penciller(s): Clayton Crain (painted)
Inker(s): Clayton Crain (painted)
Colorist(s): Clayton Crain (painted)
Letterer(s): Joe Caramagna
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Character(s): Scott Summers; X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Emma Frost [White Queen]; Wolverine [Logan]; Armor [Hisako Ichiki]; Storm [Ororo Iqadi T'Challa]; Beast [Hank McCoy]; Colossus [Piotr Rasputin]; Shadowcat [Kitty Pryde]; Professor X [Charles Xavier]] (flashbacks)
Synopsis: In a world where Cyclops decided to approach Subject X cautiously instead of letting Wolverine take him out quickly, a suicidal Scott Summers is the only X-Man surviving in a ruined mansion filled with ghosts.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAstonishing X-Men: Ghost Box #[nn] published January 2009
as The Last Testament of Scott Summers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: The script in the back of this issue makes it clear that the older flashbacks were supposed to be portrayed by mixing distressed artwork from those time periods into the current art, but this was not done.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Warren Ellis
Penciller(s): Kaare Andrews
Inker(s): Kaare Andrews
Colorist(s): Kaare Andrews
Letterer(s): Joe Caramagna
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Character(s): Hisako Ichiki [Armor]; Logan [Wolverine]; Hank McCoy [Beast]
Synopsis: In a world where the annexation took several years, Hisako journeys to a supposed evacuation point with a deranged Hank McCoy and a Logan who is confined to a wheelchair due to the adamantium on his legs being warped early in the fighting.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAstonishing X-Men: Ghost Box #[nn] published January 2009
as 4 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: There is a large numeral "4" above Logan and Hisako in the panel occupying the lower half of the first page. In the absence of any other explanation, I am assuming it is the title of the story.
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Cover Process by Simone Bianchi

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Simone Bianchi
Inker(s): Simone Bianchi; Andrea Silvestri
Colorist(s): Simone Peruzzi
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Character(s): Emma Frost [White Queen]; Wolverine [Logan]
Synopsis: Preliminary sketches, pencils, inked but uncolored artwork, and the final art for the cover of this issue.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Astonishing X-Men Ghost Boxes Script by Warren Ellis

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Warren Ellis
Penciller(s): Clayton Crain (painted; part three); Kaare Andrews (part two)
Inker(s): Clayton Crain (painted; part three); Kaare Andrews (part two)
Colorist(s): Clayton Crain (painted; part three); none (part two)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): X-Men
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Scripts for the two stories in this issue, with art excerpts from the first story (referred to as "part three") and uncolored art excerpts from the second (referred to as "part two"). Note that the stories in the previous issue were referred to as parts one and two, so it's not clear whether this "part two" should have been "part four" or whether there is some other error.

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