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Issue: Kurt Busiek's Astro City #21
Publication Date: March 2000
 
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Homage ComicsView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Homage Comics
On Sale Date: 01/19/2000
Volume: 2
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 76194121838002111
Price: $3.95 CAD
$2.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 2 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): John Layman (editor); Scott Dunbier (group editor); Jim Lee (editorial director); Ann Huntington Busiek (managing editor)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
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Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Alex Ross (painter)
Alex Ross (painter)
Alex Ross (painter)
Subject Matter
superhero
Samaritan
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FlagAstro City: Local Heroes #[nn] published February 2004
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Where the Action Is

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Kurt Busiek
Brent E. Anderson
Will Blyberg
Alex Sinclair
Comicraft; John Roshell; Wes Abbott
Subject Matter
superhero
Jack-in-the-Box; Glowworm; Crackerjack; Nightingale; Sunbird; Manny Monkton; Bob Cottonman; Sally Twinings; Eli Gavin; Stan Lee (cameo); Julius Schwartz (cameo); Gil Kane (cameo); Mark Waid (cameo); Devin Grayson (cameo); Mark Evanier (cameo); Mitch Goodman [Crimson Cougar] (cameo)
Comic-book writer Sally Twinings tries to keep up with the best-selling (but often unethical) comic-book publisher Manny Monkton. After being assaulted too often by superbeings that he has either cheated or insulted, Manny transforms his line to deal solely with cosmic beings on the theory that his comics will be far beneath their notice. This works well until the morning that his entire building disappears, with Manny inside. Sally decides to stick to mainstream publishers.
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FlagAstro City: Local Heroes #[nn] published February 2004
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The story makes references to Marvel, DC, Alter Ego magazine, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, and Dr. Fredrick Wertham. (When Manny is hospitalized, his doctor is "F. Wortham.")

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