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The most interested game in town, as far as capted crusaders are concerned. —The Washington Post

A hero dreams of flight. An alien spy prepares for invasion. A young man is mentored by a hero with dark secrets. A street criminal discovers a hero's identity. And much, much more.

Step into a world of heroes and see them from a whole different perspective. These are the multiple-award-winning stories that began the epic series and changed how we think about superheroes.

Collects KURT BUSIEK'S ASTRO CITY, VOL. 1 (#1-6) & VOL. 2 (#1-12, #1/2)Kurt Busiek broke in as a comics writer in 1982, with stories inGreen Lantern#162 andPower Man & Iron Fist#90, both out the same day. Since then, he’s worked on just about everything fromAction ComicstoZot!, including runs onAvengers, Iron Man, Superman, Conan, and others, along with co-creatingThunderbolts,The Power Companyand more. Best known for his work on the multiple-award-winningMarvelsand ASTRO CITY, he’s been turning more and more to creator-owned work of late, including such projects as ARROWSMITH,Superstar,Shockrocketsand THE WIZARD'S TALE, and is currently working on more ASTRO CITY along with his new series THE AUTUMNLANDS, drawn by Benjamin Dewey.

Brent Eric Anderson was born in San Jose, California in 1955 and grew up on the West Coast. His favorite comics – on the rare occasion he was allowed to read them – wereArchie,Stumbo the Giant,Hot Stuff the Little Devil, andDennis the Menace. His mother, influenced by the widespread bias against comics in the 1950s, favored classic children’s literature, such asTreasure Islandby Robert Louis Stevenson and theJust So Storiesby Rudyard Kipling. He's known for his work onSomerset Holmeswith Bruce Jones (and his wife April Campbell), the heroic space-opera,Strikeforce:Morituri