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1999 |
Jan |
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America’s Best Comics Preview included in Wizard,
features an 8-page story plus sketches |
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Feb |
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Mar |
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,
a 6-issue mini-series, debuts |
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Apr |
League
of Extraordinary Gentlemen #2 |
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May |
League
of Extraordinary Gentlemen #3 |
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June |
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Tom Strong debuts with a 32-page issue |
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July |
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Tom
Strong #2 |
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Aug |
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Tom
Strong #3 |
Promethea debuts with a 32-page issue |
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Sept |
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Promethea
#2 |
Top 10 debuts with a 32-page issue |
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Oct |
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Tom
Strong #4 begins a 4-part storyline in which each issue
contains a flashback story by a guest artist |
Promethea
#3 |
Top
10 #2 |
Tomorrow Stories debuts with a 32-page
issue, featuring Greyshirt, Cobweb, The First American, and Jack B. Quick |
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Nov |
League
of Extraordinary Gentlemen #4 |
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Promethea
#4 |
Top
10 #3 |
Tomorrow
Stories #2 |
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Dec |
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Tom
Strong #5 |
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Top
10 #4 |
Tomorrow
Stories #3 |
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2000 |
Jan |
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Top
10 #5 |
Tomorrow
Stories #4 features the last regular Jack B. Quick
feature |
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Feb |
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Tom
Strong #6 |
Promethea
#5 |
Top
10 #6 |
Tomorrow
Stories #5 features only Greyshirt, Cobweb, and The
First American |
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Mar |
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Tom
Strong #7 |
Promethea
#6 |
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Tomorrow
Stories #6 introduces Splash Brannigan as the fourth
feature |
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Apr |
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Promethea
#7 |
Top
10 #7 |
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May |
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June |
League
of Extraordinary Gentlemen #5 |
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Top
10 #8 |
Tomorrow
Stories #7 |
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July |
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Tom
Strong #8 begins three issues with three stories
apiece, one per issue by a guest artist |
Promethea
#8 |
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Aug |
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Sept |
League
of Extraordinary Gentlemen #6 |
Tom
Strong #9 |
Promethea
#9 |
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Oct |
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Promethea
#10 |
Top
10 #9 |
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Nov |
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Tom
Strong #10 |
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Dec |
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Promethea
#11 |
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2001 |
Jan |
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Tom
Strong #11 begins a 2-issue storyline introducing Terra
Obscura |
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Top
10 #10 |
Tomorrow
Stories #8 |
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Feb |
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Promethea
#12 tells a 24-page story that comprises a single panel |
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Tomorrow
Stories #9 features the last regular Splash Brannigan
feature America’s Best Comics Special, a 64-page book
featuring short stories of the five features from Tomorrow Stories,
plus stories for each of the other America’s Best Comics titles |
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Mar |
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Apr |
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Promethea
#13 |
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May |
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Top
10 #11 |
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June |
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Tom
Strong #12 |
Promethea
#14 |
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Tomorrow
Stories #10 features Jack B. Quick, now alternating with
Splash Brannigan as the fourth feature |
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July |
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Tom
Strong #13 tells a story with four chapters, three by
guest artists |
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Aug |
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Promethea
#15 |
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Sept |
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Oct |
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Tom
Strong #14 features three stories, one by a guest
artist |
Promethea
#16 |
Top
10 #12 concludes the series with a 32-page issue |
Tomorrow
Stories #11 features Splash Brannigan as its fourth
feature |
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Nov |
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Dec |
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Promethea
#17 |
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Greyshirt: Indigo Sunset,
an ingenious 6-issue mini-series of 32-page no-ads issues masterminded by
Rick Veitch, debuts; this was America’s Best Comics’s second mini-series (the
first being League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) |
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2002 |
Jan |
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Tom Strong’s Terrific Tales debuts with a 32-page
issue, featuring a Tom Strong story written by Alan Moore, a Young Tom Strong
story written by Steve Moore, and a Jonni Future story written by Steve Moore
-- plus, for this issue only, a Tesla Strong story written by Alan Moore |
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Greyshirt: Indigo Sunset
#2 |
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Feb |
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Promethea
#18 |
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Greyshirt: Indigo Sunset
#3 America’s Best Comics Sketchbook features art
and commentary by the artists |
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Mar |
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Tom
Strong #15 tells a complete story Tom
Strong’s Terrific Tales #2 |
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Apr |
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Tom
Strong #16 begins a 3-issue storyline featuring the
Strong family and friends battling an invasion |
Promethea
#19 |
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Greyshirt: Indigo Sunset
#4 Tomorrow
Stories #12 concludes the series with a crossover
between Greyshirt and Cobweb, while Jack B. Quick serves as the fourth
feature |
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May |
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June |
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Tom
Strong’s Terrific Tales #3 |
Promethea
#20 |
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Greyshirt: Indigo Sunset
#5 |
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July |
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Aug |
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Promethea
#21 |
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Greyshirt: Indigo Sunset
#6 |
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Sept |
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume Two,
a 6-issue mini-series, debuts |
Tom
Strong #17 |
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Oct |
League
of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume Two #2 |
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Nov |
League
of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume Two #3 |
Tom
Strong’s Terrific Tales #4 |
Promethea
#22 |
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Dec |
|
Tom
Strong #18 |
Promethea
#23 is a 32-page issue |
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2003 |
Jan |
|
Tom
Strong’s Terrific Tales #5 cuts the Jonni Future feature for this
issue only, replacing it with a tale of Solomon written by Leah Moore |
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Feb |
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume Two #4
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Promethea
#24 |
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Mar |
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Apr |
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Tom Strong’s Terrific Tales #6
Tom Strong #19 features three stories,
one by a guest artist and another by a guest artist and written by Leah Moore
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May |
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Promethea
#25 concludes the mythic tour storyline begun in #13 |
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June |
|
Tom Strong #20 begins a 3-issue storyline, “How Tom Stone Got
Started,” with Jerry Ordway art
|
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July |
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume Two #5
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The Many Worlds of Tesla Strong, a 64-page issue written by Peter
Hogan and Alan Moore with various artists
Tom Strong’s Terrific Tales #7
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Aug |
|
Terra Obscura, a 6-issue mini-series written by Peter Hogan and Alan
Moore, debuts
|
Tom
Strong appears in Promethea #26 |
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Sept |
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Terra Obscura #2
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Oct |
|
Tom Strong #21
Terra Obscura #3
|
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Smax, a 5-issue mini-series, debuts |
|
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Nov |
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume Two #6
|
Terra Obscura #4
|
Promethea
#27 features Tom Strong as Promethea begins her mission of Apocalypse |
Smax
#2 |
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Dec |
|
Tom
Strong #22 Tom
Strong Terrific Tales #8 Terra
Obscura #5 |
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2004 |
Jan |
|
Tom
Strong #23 is scripted by Peter Hogan |
Promethea
#28 features Tom Strong, Jonni Future, Cobweb, Greyshirt, Splash Brannigan,
and Jack B. Quick |
|
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Feb |
|
Terra
Obscura #6 |
|
Smax
#4 |
|
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Mar |
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Tom
Strong #24 is scripted by Peter Hogan |
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Apr |
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May |
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June |
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July |
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Aug |
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Sept |
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Oct |
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Nov |
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Dec |
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2005 |
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Note that the above table does not include Smax
#3 or #5, nor Tom Strong #25 up or Promethea #29 up.