Kurt Busiek's Astro City: Confession #[nn] (1997) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

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Series: Kurt Busiek's Astro City: Confession (Image, 1997 series)
Issue: #[nn]
Publication date: 1997
Key date: 1997
Indicia publisher: Homage Comics
Price: $19.95; 29.00 CAD
Pages: 212

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Alex Ross; inks: Alex Ross; colors: Alex Ross
1	Introduction	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	5	script: Neil Gaiman
2	New Kid in Town	comic story	24	script: Kurt Busiek; pencils: Brent Eric Anderson; inks: Will Blyberg; colors: Alex Sinclair; letters: Comicraft's John Roshell	Brian Kinney
3	Learning the Game	comic story	24	script: Kurt Busiek; pencils: Brent Eric Anderson; inks: Will Blyberg; colors: Alex Sinclair; letters: Comicraft's John Roshell	Altar Boy [Brian Kinney]; The Confessor; Crackerjack
4	The Gathering Dark	comic story	24	script: Kurt Busiek; pencils: Brent Eric Anderson; inks: Will Blyberg; colors: Alex Sinclair; letters: Comicraft's John Roshell	Altar Boy; The Confessor
5	Eye of the Storm	comic story	24	script: Kurt Busiek; pencils: Brent Eric Anderson; inks: Will Blyberg; colors: Alex Sinclair; letters: Comicraft's John Roshell	Altar Boy; The Confessor
6	Patterns	comic story	24	script: Kurt Busiek; pencils: Brent Eric Anderson; inks: Will Blyberg; colors: Alex Sinclair; letters: Comicraft's John Roshell	Altar Boy; The Confessor
7	My Father's Son	comic story	24	script: Kurt Busiek; pencils: Brent Eric Anderson; inks: Will Blyberg; colors: Alex Sinclair; letters: Comicraft's John Roshell	Altar Boy; The Crossbreed and others
8	The Nearness of You	comic story	16	script: Kurt Busiek; pencils: Brent Eric Anderson; inks: Will Blyberg; colors: Alex Sinclair; letters: Comicraft's John Roshell	Hanging Man
9	Dramatis Personae	text article	5	script: Alex Ross; pencils: Brent Anderson
10	New Kid in Town	cover reprint (on interior page)	2	pencils: Alex Ross; inks: Alex Ross; colors: Alex Ross	Brian Kinney
11	Learning the Game	cover reprint (on interior page)	2	pencils: Alex Ross; inks: Alex Ross; colors: Alex Ross	The Confessor
12	The Gathering Dark	cover reprint (on interior page)	2	pencils: Alex Ross; inks: Alex Ross; colors: Alex Ross	The Confessor; Altar Boy
13	Eye of the Storm	cover reprint (on interior page)	2	pencils: Alex Ross; inks: Alex Ross; colors: Alex Ross	Aliens
14	Patterns	cover reprint (on interior page)	2	pencils: Alex Ross; inks: Alex Ross; colors: Alex Ross	various
15	My Father's Son	cover reprint (on interior page)	2	pencils: Alex Ross; inks: Alex Ross; colors: Alex Ross	various
16	The Nearness of You	cover reprint (on interior page)	2	pencils: Brent Anderson; inks: Will Blyberg; colors: Alex Sinclair	various
17	Acknowledgements	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	script: Kurt Busiek, Brent Eric Anderson, Alex Ross; pencils: Alex Ross

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Collection	Year
Kurt Busiek's Astro City: Confession #[nn] ISBN 1-56389-550-1	1999	On eBay ›
Astro City: Confession #[nn] ISBN 978-1-4012-5830-6	2015	On eBay ›

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