Astro City

Astro City, also known as Kurt Busiek's Astro City, is an American superhero anthology comic book series centered on a fictional American city of that name. Created and written by Kurt Busiek, the series is mostly illustrated by Brent Anderson, with character designs and painted covers by Alex Ross. Its stories focus primarily on everyday life in a superhero comic universe, rather than on superheroic adventures and battles. The first volume was published from 1995 to 1996 by Image Comics. In 1996, a second volume was launched under the Homage Comics imprint of Image partner studio WildStorm, which was then acquired by DC Comics, where the series later transitioned to the WildStorm Signature Series imprint and continued until 2010. During this period it switched from a regular ongoing series to a sequence of periodic mini-series and special issues. A third ongoing volume was launched under DC's Vertigo imprint in 2013 and concluded in 2018. Counting all series, mini-series and special issues, over 100 issues have been published.