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Issue: Kurt Busiek's Astro City #12
Publication Date: December 1997
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Issues: #12 of 16 Issues (17 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagImage
Brand: Homage Comics; ImageView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Homage Comics
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 2
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $3.65 CAD
$2.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 2 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Jonathan Peterson (editor in chief); Jim Lee (publisher); Ann Huntington Busiek (managing editor)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock:  
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Alex Ross (painted)
Inker(s): Alex Ross (painted)
Colorist(s): Alex Ross (painted)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Astro City
Character(s): Jack-in-the-Box [Zachary Johnson]; Tamra Dixon
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagKurt Busiek's Astro City: Family Album #[nn] [Second Printing] published May 1999
as Father's Day [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagKurt Busiek's Astro City: Family Album #[nn] published September 1999
as Kurt Busiek's Astro City #12 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Father's Day

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Kurt Busiek
Penciller(s): Brent E. Anderson
Inker(s): Will Blyberg; Gary Martin
Colorist(s): Alex Sinclair
Letterer(s): John Roshell; Comicraft
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Astro City
Character(s): Jack-in-the-Box [Zachary Johnson]; Tamra Dixon; The Box; Jackson; Brass Monkey; Roscoe [of the Trouble Boys, becomes the new Jack-in-the-Box]
Synopsis: The Box and Jackson disappear, but Jack-in-the-Box meets yet another person claiming to be his son come back from the future. Because this son has not become twisted due to being his son, Jack-in-the-Box decides that the future is as yet unwritten, and takes steps to ensure he will be able to be a good father to his son.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagKurt Busiek's Astro City: Family Album #[nn] [Second Printing] published May 1999
as Father's Day [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagKurt Busiek's Astro City: Family Album #[nn] published September 1999
as Father's Day [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 24
Disclose Notes: Story reveals that the current Jack-in-the-Box is the son of the original, who died in 1983 fighting the Underlord. Gary Martin inking credit from original publication. Homages in this story include Finger Street Precinct Station and Veidt Street Art Gallery. Roscoe mentions the Deacon. Story continues from previous issue.

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