The Authority #1 (2006) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

Identification plate

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	World Storm Starts Now!	cover	1	pencils: Gene Ha; inks: Gene Ha; colors: Art Lyon	The Authority [Engineer [Angela Spica]; Midnighter [Lucas Trent]]
1	Utopian	comic story	22	script: Grant Morrison; pencils: Gene Ha; inks: Gene Ha; colors: Art Lyon; letters: Comicraft	Ken; Joan
2	The Storm Front	in-house column	1	script: Jim Lee
3	Promotional Advertisement	promo (ad from the publisher)	2

Plus 10 pages of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

Edition	How to tell
Arthur Adams Cover	barcode 76194125542200131
Arthur Adams Sketch Cover	barcode 76194125542200121

Collection	Year
The Authority Volume 4 Reader: The Lost Year #[nn]	2010	On eBay ›
The Authority: The Lost Year #1 ISBN 978-1-4012-2749-4	2010	On eBay ›

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