Kurt Busiek's Astro City: The Annotations

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              KURT BUSIEK'S ASTRO CITY VOL. 2, #12
                          Father's Day
      collected as part of the FAMILY ALBUM trade paperback
                  Narrator: Jack-In-The-Box II
                        Date: Fall 1997?
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Date:     This issue follows on almost immediately from its
          predecessor.

Cover:    Jack-In-The-Box II and a pregnant Tamra Dixon.

2/5:      A newspaper article detailing this can be found on Vol.1
          #3, 6-7/1 (second paper from left).

3/1:      A headline referring to this event is present on Vol.1
          #3, 6-7/1 (second paper from right). First reference to
          the Underlord.

 /5:      This panel is probably depicting the events of Jack-In-
          The-Box II's first excursion, as detailed in a newspaper
          article on Vol.1 #3, 6-7/1 (rightmost paper). Note the
          Veidt Street sign, corresponding to that story.

7/1:      Finger Street refers to Bill Finger (1917-1974), the
          foremost Batman writer until the 1960s. Finger helped
          create such classic characters as the Penguin, the
          Riddler, Two-Face and the Catwoman, and also did
          considerable work on other DC characters and for other
          companies.

14/1:     Like Robinson Prep (see #5, 11/2), the Robinson Hotel is
          named for Golden Age Batman artist Jerry Robinson  
          (1922- ).

  /5:     First appearance of Jack-In-The-Box III and the Gorilla
          Troops.

15/1:     First appearance of the Brass Monkey, previously
          mentioned on Vol.1 #3, 6-7/1.




Release History:
Version 1.1 released 22nd June 1998
Version 1.0 released 14th June 1998

Notes:
Citation format is page/panel. For instance, 18/1 refers to page
18, panel 1. Two-page spreads are treated as a single "page" for
the purpose of panel enumeration; for example, 6-7/3 refers to the
third panel on a spread covering pages 6 and 7. Issue number is
included if different from the issue being annotated, with issues
from Volume 1 specified as such.

KURT BUSIEK'S ASTRO CITY, its prominent characters and their
likenesses are trademarks of Juke Box Productions. All quoted text
is copyright Juke Box Productions.

Additions, corrections and comments should be sent to the editor.
Reproduction of these annotations, in whole or in part, without the
permission of the editor is forbidden.

Annotations for other issues of KURT BUSIEK'S ASTRO CITY may be
found at http://strindberg.ling.uu.se/~anders/KBAC/main.html
(HTMLized versions) and http://www.physics.mun.ca/~sps/kbac/ (text
versions).

Sources:
"Comic Art & Graffix Gallery Virtual Museum & Encyclopedia"
(http://www.comic-art.com/enter.htm)

"The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told", Biographies: Creating The
Greatest by Mark Waid, DC Comics (1988)

"Who's Who In Astro City" (http://www.bonner.rice.edu/morrow/kbac/
kbacww.html)

Contributors:
Shannon Patrick Sullivan, shannon@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (editor)
Tom Kenning, tjkenning@juno.com