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| 6 | Absolute Planetary | credits, title page | 2 | letters: typeset | |
| 7 | Chapter One | cover reprint (on interior page) | 1 | pencils: John Cassaday; inks: John Cassaday | Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer |
| 8 | All Over the World | comic story | 24 | script: Warren Ellis; pencils: John Cassaday; inks: John Cassaday; colors: Laura Martin; letters: Bill O'Neil | Planetary [Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer]; Dr. "Doc" Axel Brass; Brass's Secret Society [Hark; the Aviator; Edison; the Jungle Lord; Jimmy, the Secret Operator; The Spider] (all in flashback); 7 costumed invaders (cameos in flashback) |
| 9 | - | foreword, introduction, preface, afterword | 1 | letters: typeset | |
| 10 | Chapter Two | cover reprint (on interior page) | 1 | pencils: John Cassaday; inks: John Cassaday | |
| 11 | Island | comic story | 22 | script: Warren Ellis; pencils: John Cassaday; inks: John Cassaday; colors: Laura Martin; letters: Bill O'Neil | Planetary [Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer]; Ryu [Master Storyteller]; Shinya Fukuda; skeletons and bodies of enormous monsters on Island Zero |
| 12 | - | foreword, introduction, preface, afterword | 1 | letters: typeset | |
| 13 | Chapter Three | cover reprint (on interior page) | 1 | pencils: John Cassaday; inks: John Cassaday; colors: Laura Martin | |
| 14 | Dead Gunfighters | comic story | 22 | script: Warren Ellis; pencils: John Cassaday; inks: John Cassaday; colors: Laura Martin; letters: Ali Fuchs | Planetary [Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer]; Detective Shek Chi-Wai (a spectral cop); Michelle (Planetary's office manager in Hong Kong); Mok (Shek's ex-partner) |
| 15 | - | foreword, introduction, preface, afterword | 1 | letters: typeset | |
| 16 | Chapter Four | cover reprint (on interior page) | 1 | pencils: John Cassaday; inks: John Cassaday; colors: Laura Martin | Jim Wilder (transformed) |
| 17 | Strange Harbours | comic story | 22 | script: Warren Ellis; pencils: John Cassaday; inks: John Cassaday; colors: Laura Martin, Wildstorm FX; letters: Ali Fuchs | Planetary [Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer]; Jim Wilder; Mr. Neumeier; Dr. Axel Brass (cameo); a ShiftShip |
| 18 | - | foreword, introduction, preface, afterword | 1 | letters: typeset | |
| 19 | Chapter Five | cover reprint (on interior page) | 1 | pencils: John Cassaday; inks: John Cassaday; colors: Laura Martin | Dr. Axel "Doc" Brass |
| 20 | The Good Doctor | comic story | 23 | script: Warren Ellis; pencils: John Cassaday; inks: John Cassaday; colors: Laura Martin; letters: Ali Fuchs | Dr. "Doc" Axel Brass; Elijah Snow; Jenny Sparks (cameo); John Cumberland [The High] (cameo); Hark (cameo); Anna Hark (cameo); Brass's Secret Society [Brass; Hark; the Aviator; Edison; the Jungle Lord; Jimmy, the Secret Operator; The Spider] (cameos- all cameos in flashback) |
| 21 | Chapter Six | cover reprint (on interior page) | 1 | pencils: John Cassaday; inks: John Cassaday; colors: Laura Martin | astronauts |
| 22 | 4 | comic story | 22 | script: Warren Ellis; pencils: John Cassaday; inks: John Cassaday; colors: Laura Martin, David Baron; letters: Ali Fuchs | Planetary [Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer]; the Four [Randall Dowling; Jacob Greene; William Leather; Kim Suskind] |
| 23 | - | foreword, introduction, preface, afterword | 1 | letters: typeset | |
| 24 | Chapter Seven | cover reprint (on interior page) | 1 | pencils: John Cassaday; inks: John Cassaday | Jack Carter |
| 25 | To Be in England, in the Summertime | comic story | 22 | script: Warren Ellis; pencils: John Cassaday; inks: John Cassaday; colors: David Baron; letters: Ryan Cline | Planetary [Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer]; Jack Carter; the modern Herod; an unnamed superhero; unnamed mourners |
| 26 | - | foreword, introduction, preface, afterword | 1 | letters: typeset | |
| 27 | Chapter Eight | cover reprint (on interior page) | 1 | pencils: John Cassaday; inks: John Cassaday; colors: Laura Martin | |
| 28 | The Day The Earth Turned Slower | comic story | 22 | script: Warren Ellis; pencils: John Cassaday; inks: John Cassaday; colors: Laura Martin; letters: Ryan Cline | Planetary [Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer]; Allison; Randall Dowling (cameo flashback); Anna Hark (cameo flashback) |
| 29 | - | foreword, introduction, preface, afterword | 1 | letters: typeset | |
| 30 | Chapter Nine | cover reprint (on interior page) | 1 | pencils: John Cassaday; inks: John Cassaday | Planetary [Ambrose Chase; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer] |
| 31 | Planet Fiction | comic story | 22 | script: Warren Ellis; pencils: John Cassaday; inks: John Cassaday; colors: David Baron; letters: Mike Heisler | Planetary [Ambrose Chase (death); Jakita Wagner; the Drummer]; Mr. Devis; Miss Bourke |
| 32 | - | foreword, introduction, preface, afterword | 1 | letters: typeset | |
| 33 | Chapter Ten | cover reprint (on interior page) | 1 | pencils: John Cassaday; inks: John Cassaday; colors: Laura Martin | |
| 34 | Magic & Loss | comic story | 22 | script: Warren Ellis; pencils: John Cassaday; inks: John Cassaday; colors: Laura Martin, David Baron; letters: Ryan Cline | Elijah Snow; the Planetary clean-up team; 2 unnamed aliens from a doomed planet; another alien, a member of a legion of alien policemen; a mother and her grown daughter from a hidden civilization on Earth; William Leather; Randall Dowling |
| 35 | - | foreword, introduction, preface, afterword | 1 | letters: typeset | |
| 36 | Chapter Eleven | cover reprint (on interior page) | 1 | pencils: John Cassaday; inks: John Cassaday; colors: Laura Martin | Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer; John Stone |
| 37 | Cold World | comic story | 22 | script: Warren Ellis; pencils: John Cassaday; inks: John Cassaday; colors: Laura Martin; letters: Bill O'Neil | John Stone; Bride; Elijah Snow |
| 38 | - | foreword, introduction, preface, afterword | 1 | letters: typeset | |
| 39 | - | cover reprint (on interior page) | 1 | pencils: John Cassaday; inks: John Cassaday | Elijah Snow |
| 40 | Memory Cloud | comic story | 22 | script: Warren Ellis; pencils: John Cassaday; inks: John Cassaday; colors: Laura Martin; letters: Bill O'Neil | Planetary [Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer]; Sherlock Holmes (cameo flashback); Randall Dowling (cameo flashback) |
| 41 | Preview | cover reprint (on interior page) | 1 | pencils: John Cassaday; inks: John Cassaday | Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer |
| 42 | Nuclear Spring | comic story | 8 | script: Warren Ellis; pencils: John Cassaday; inks: John Cassaday; colors: Laura Martin; letters: Amie Grenier | Planetary [Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; The Drummer]; David Paine (flashback) |
| 43 | Absolute Planetary Script | text story | 19 | script: Warren Ellis | |
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| 48 | - | insert or dust jacket | 0 | pencils: John Cassaday; inks: John Cassaday; colors: Laura Martin | Planetary [Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; The Drummer] |