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Issue: Astro City #9
Publication Date: June 2014
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Issues: #9 of 10 Issues
Title: Through Open Doors
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 04/09/2014
Volume: 9
Pages: 184
ISBN: 9781401247522
UPC/EAN: 978140124752252499
Price: $28.99 CAD
$24.99 USD
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Content Items: 15 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U. S.
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Binding: hardcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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FlagAstro City #9 published November 2014 as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Gentleman; Winged Victory; Wolfspider; the Samaritan; American Chibi; N-Forcer; Cleopatra; Astra; Beautie
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[untitled]

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Telseth
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): E.A.G.L.E. [Commander Flint]; American Chibi; Cleopatra [Sarah Brandeis]; Astra Furst; N-Forcer; Samaritan [Asa Martin]; Winged Victory [Lauren Freed]
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Through Open Doors, Part One

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): E.A.G.L.E. [Commander Flint]; Reflex 6 [Astra Furst; Medulla; Skysweeper [Jason Szolda]; Tearaway]; American Chibi; The Broken Man; Cleopatra [Sarah Brandeis]; Confessor [Brian Kinney]; Crackerjack [Eugene Wallace]; N-Forcer; Ben Pullam; Faith Pullam; Maggie Pullam; Samaritan [Asa Martin]; Telseth; Winged Victory [Lauren Freed]; The Iron Legion
Synopsis: E.A.G.L.E. and superheroes respond to a huge set of doors that materialize over Astro City. Telseth, emerging from the doors, announces that he is an alien plenipotentiary, and asks for an Earth person as an aide. Ben Pullam, whose girls are grown and whose life now holds few challenges, volunteers. In a frame story, the Broken Man tries to enlist the reader for his own purposes.
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Pages: 24
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Honor Guard [Beautie; The Black Rapier; Quarrel [Jessica Darlene Taggart]; Samaritan [Asa Martin]; Winged Victory [Lauren Freed]; Wolfspider [Ben Colstone]]
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Welcome to Humano Global

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Honor Guard [Beautie; The Black Rapier; Cleopatra [Sarah Brandeis]; The Gentleman; MPH [Michael Hendrie]; N-Forcer; Quarrel [Jessica Darlene Taggart]; Samaritan [Asa Martin]; Winged Victory [Lauren Freed]; Wolfspider [Ben Colstone]]; The Skullcrushers [Stephen "Slaughter" Shaw]; Unholy Alliance [Demolitia; Flamethrower; Glowworm]; Jeremy Baines; Mrs. Bannerjee; Jessie Cowper; Marella Cowper; Ms. Cowper; Michiko Ohara; Toni Umtata; Lord Volcanus
Synopsis: Marella's new job requires screening and evaluating calls for Honor Guard. She enjoys it and does well at it, but one case that she assigns for a low-level response turns into a major catastrophe.
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Honor Guard [The Black Rapier; Cleopatra [Sarah Brandeis]; The Gentleman; MPH [Michael Hendrie]; N-Forcer; Samaritan [Asa Martin]; Winged Victory [Lauren Freed]]
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Mistakes

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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Honor Guard [The Assemblyman; Beautie; The Black Rapier; Cleopatra [Sarah Brandeis]; The Gentleman; MPH [Michael Hendrie]; Quarrel [Jessica Darlene Taggart]; Samaritan [Asa Martin]; Winged Victory [Lauren Freed]; Wolfspider [Ben Colstone]]; The Skullcrushers [Horst Nilsson; Padraig Rourke]; Jeremy Baines; Jessie Cowper; Marella Cowper; Ms. Cowper; Crimson Cougar [Mitch Goodman] (poster); Esme Novarro; Maria Novarro; Michiko Ohara; Toni Umtata
Synopsis: A Honor Guard call center worker makes a "mistake" that results in an all out battle between the Honor Guard and the Skullcrushers.
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Astra Furst; Glowworm; Jack-in-the-Box; The Living Nightmare; MPH [Michael Hendrie]; Samaritan [Asa Martin]; Spice; Starpower; Martha Sullivan; Winged Victory [Lauren Freed]
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On the Sidelines

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sideliners [Carlos Andriani; Sherm Howarth; Magda; Brian Morgenstern; Colin O'Carr; Surandra Sethi; Martha Sullivan (origin); Gloria Williams]; Crimson Cougar [Mitch Goodman] (flashback); The Majordomo; Samaritan [Asa Martin]; Starpower (flashback); Eddie; Lenny [Jeremy] (flashback)
Synopsis: Sully and several other people with low-level powers are kidnapped by the Majordomo, a new villain who plans to brainwash them and make them henchmen. They have an informal network (the Sideliners), and use their connections to capture Majordomo and his men.
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Mister Cakewalk; Dame Progress [Eulalia Jane Verne]
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Thumbtacks & Yarn

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Blasphemy Boys [Breslow; Desiree; Jimmy Doolin (death); Seamus Finneran; Gregor "Hunk" Hussarian (death); Cal Tarrant]; The Broken Man; Mister Cakewalk; Dame Progress [Eulalia Jane Verne]; Ironhorse (magazine); The Majordomo (newspaper); Lord Saampa [Benjamin Naparski]; The Silver Agent [Alan Craig] (newspaper); Batrachi
Synopsis: In Broken Man's realm, readers are shown snippets of the "stories" he studies.
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Pages: 24
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Cleopatra [Sarah Brandeis]; Thatcher Jerome; The Ore-Master [Andy Wilson]
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Pages: 1
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Through Open Doors, Part Two

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Cleopatra [Sarah Brandeis]; Rachel Jerome; Thatcher Jerome; N-Forcer (flashback); The Ore-Master [Andy Wilson] (origin); Ben Pullam (flashback); Telseth
Synopsis: Thatcher Jerome, a crooked union boss, steals six canisters from Telseth. With one of them, Andy Wilson becomes the out-of-control Ore-Master. Jerome is accustomed to always pushing forward, but recognizing that his wife is happy with their life as they age, he defers investigating the other canisters.
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Pages: 24
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Sketchbook

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Ambassador; American Chibi; Broken Man; Iron Legion; Skullcrushers; Wolfspider; Assemblyman; Majordomo; Dame Progress; Mister Cakewalk; Ore-Master; Thatcher Jerome; Rachel Jerome; Cleopatra
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Pages: 13

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