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Cover Date

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Tom Strong

Promethea

Top 10

Miscellaneous

1999

Jan

 

 

 

 

America’s Best Comics Preview included in Wizard, features an 8-page story plus sketches

Feb

 

 

 

 

 

Mar

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a 6-issue mini-series, debuts

 

 

 

 

Apr

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen #2

 

 

 

 

May

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen #3

 

 

 

 

June

 

Tom Strong debuts with a 32-page issue

 

 

 

July

 

Tom Strong #2

 

 

 

Aug

 

Tom Strong #3

Promethea debuts with a 32-page issue

 

 

Sept

 

 

Promethea #2

Top 10 debuts with a 32-page issue

 

Oct

 

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

Nov

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen #4

 

Promethea #4

Top 10 #3

Tomorrow Stories #2

Dec

 

Tom Strong #5

 

Top 10 #4

Tomorrow Stories #3

2000

Jan

 

 

 

Top 10 #5

Tomorrow Stories #4 features the last regular Jack B. Quick feature

Feb

 

Tom Strong #6

Promethea #5

Top 10 #6

Tomorrow Stories #5 features only Greyshirt, Cobweb, and The First American

Mar

 

Tom Strong #7

Promethea #6

 

Tomorrow Stories #6 introduces Splash Brannigan as the fourth feature

Apr

 

 

Promethea #7

Top 10 #7

 

May

 

 

 

 

 

June

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen #5

 

 

Top 10 #8

Tomorrow Stories #7

July

 

Tom Strong #8 begins three issues with three stories apiece, one per issue by a guest artist

Promethea #8

 

 

Aug

 

 

 

 

 

Sept

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen #6

Tom Strong #9

Promethea #9

 

 

Oct

 

 

Promethea #10

Top 10 #9

 

Nov

 

Tom Strong #10

 

 

 

Dec

 

 

Promethea #11

 

 

2001

Jan

 

Tom Strong #11 begins a 2-issue storyline introducing Terra Obscura

 

Top 10 #10

Tomorrow Stories #8

Feb

 

 

Promethea #12 tells a 24-page story that comprises a single panel

 

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

Mar

 

 

 

 

 

Apr

 

 

Promethea #13

 

 

May

 

 

 

Top 10 #11

 

June

 

Tom Strong #12

Promethea #14

 

Tomorrow Stories #10 features Jack B. Quick, now alternating with Splash Brannigan as the fourth feature

July

 

Tom Strong #13 tells a story with four chapters, three by guest artists

 

 

 

Aug

 

 

Promethea #15

 

 

Sept

 

 

 

 

 

Oct

 

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

Nov

 

 

 

 

 

Dec

 

 

Promethea #17

 

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)

2002

Jan

 

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

 

 

Greyshirt:  Indigo Sunset #2

Feb

 

 

Promethea #18

 

Greyshirt:  Indigo Sunset #3

America’s Best Comics Sketchbook features art and commentary by the artists

Mar

 

Tom Strong #15 tells a complete story

Tom Strong’s Terrific Tales #2

 

 

 

Apr

 

Tom Strong #16 begins a 3-issue storyline featuring the Strong family and friends battling an invasion

Promethea #19

 

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

May

 

 

 

 

 

June

 

Tom Strong’s Terrific Tales #3

Promethea #20

 

Greyshirt:  Indigo Sunset #5

July

 

 

 

 

 

Aug

 

 

Promethea #21

 

Greyshirt:  Indigo Sunset #6

Sept

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume Two, a 6-issue mini-series, debuts

Tom Strong #17

 

 

 

Oct

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume Two #2

 

 

 

 

Nov

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume Two #3

Tom Strong’s Terrific Tales #4

Promethea #22

 

 

Dec

 

Tom Strong #18

Promethea #23 is a 32-page issue

 

 

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

 

 

 

Feb

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume Two #4
 

Promethea #24

 

 

Mar

 
 

 

 

 

Apr

 
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

 

 

 

May

 
 

Promethea #25 concludes the mythic tour storyline begun in #13

 

 

June

 
Tom Strong #20 begins a 3-issue storyline, “How Tom Stone Got Started,” with Jerry Ordway art

 

 

 

July

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume Two #5
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

 

 

 

Aug

 
Terra Obscura, a 6-issue mini-series written by Peter Hogan and Alan Moore, debuts

Tom Strong appears in Promethea #26

 

 

Sept

 
Terra Obscura #2

 

 

 

Oct

 
Tom Strong #21
Terra Obscura #3

 

Smax, a 5-issue mini-series, debuts

 

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

 

Dec

 

Tom Strong #22

Tom Strong Terrific Tales #8

Terra Obscura #5

 

 

 

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

 

 

Feb

 

Terra Obscura #6

 

Smax #4

 

Mar

 

Tom Strong #24 is scripted by Peter Hogan

 

 

 

Apr

 

 

 

 

 

May

 

 

 

 

 

June

 

 

 

 

 

July

 

 

 

 

 

Aug

 

 

 

 

 

Sept

 

 

 

 

 

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Nov

 

 

 

 

 

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2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note that the above table does not include Smax #3 or #5, nor Tom Strong #25 up or Promethea #29 up.