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Issue: Kurt Busiek's Astro City #5
Publication Date: December 1995
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Issues: #5 of 6 Issues (7 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagImage
Brand: ImageView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Image Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: $3.20 CAD
$2.25 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 4 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In6
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
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Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagAstro City #1 published ?
In Issue: FlagAstro City #3 published ?
In Content Item: FlagKurt Busiek's Astro City: Life in the Big City #[nn] [Fifth Printing] published May 1996
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Reconnaissance

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
First Line: Once upon a time... there was a little old man who lived in an undistinguished rooming house on the north side of Astro City.
Synopsis: An alien disguised as a human gathers information to report to his superiors about the superheroes of Earth, including, to his surprise, his neighbor Crackerjack.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagAstro City #1 published ?
In Content Item: FlagKurt Busiek's Astro City: Life in the Big City #[nn] [Fifth Printing] published May 1996
as Reconnaissance [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 24
Disclose Notes: Also listed under Color Art & Separations are several other people, most not by their full names. Mr. Bridwell is named after longtime DC editor E. Nelson Bridwell. Homages in this story include Nordling's Department Store and Klein St. Cleopatra's battle with Gnomicron headlines a newspaper. Starwoman appears on a cover of Current, the magazine where Samaritan works. The alien has a file on Confessor, but no pictures. On the walls of his apartment, Mr. Bridwell has articles mentioning the First Family and N-Forcer. According to Mr. Bridwell's computer, Jessica Darlene Taggart is Quarrel II.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Letters with responses from Kurt Busiek, an illustration of Jack-in-the-Box, and a preview of the next issue with a small reproduction of its cover.
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Astro City Character Gallery

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagKurt Busiek's Astro City: Life in the Big City #[nn] [Fifth Printing] published May 1996
as [untitled] [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Pencil design sketch

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