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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published May 2007
Cover Price 2.99 USD; 3.65 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Scott Dunbier (Editor); Kristy Quinn (Assistant Editor)

Cover Details - "Cover A"

Characters The Authority [Doctor [Habib Ben Hassan]; Jenny Quantum [Jenny Quarx]]
Genre Superhero
Pencils Gene Ha
Inks Gene Ha
Colors Art Lyon
Letters typeset
Notes Direct Sales Edition.

Cover Details - "Cover B - Variant Cover"

Genre Superhero
Pencils Michael Golden

22 page The Authority story "Utopian"

Characters The Authority [Apollo; The Carrier; Doctor [Habib Ben Hassan]; Engineer [Angela Spica]; Jack Hawksmoor; Jenny Quantum [Jenny Quarx]; Midnighter [Lucas Trent]; Swift [Shen Li-Min]]; Kenny Kincaid
Synopsis Do you believe in superheroes? Something huge has been found in the waters of the North Sea, something from another reality where the supermen are real. Join marine salvage expert Kenny Kincaid as he meets astonishing beings both familiar and terrifyingly strange. [per solicitation]
Genre Adventure; Superhero
Script Grant Morrison
Pencils Gene Ha
Inks Gene Ha
Colors Art Lyon
Letters Comicraft
Notes All advertisements are located towards the end of the comic book and not interspersed within the story itself.
Reprinted in Authority Volume 4 Reader: The Lost Year, The (DC, 2010 series) #[nn] (January 2010)

3 page advertisement "Advertisements"

Notes Crackdown (game, Real Time Worlds, Ltd.); Alan Moore's SMAX (comic book, America's Best Comics); Jade Empire Special Edition (game, BioWare Corp.)

9 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Promotional Advertisements"

Notes House Advertisements for: GRIFTER MIDNIGHTER LIMITED SERIES; THE AUTHORITY GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES; ASTRO CITY LOCAL HEROES TPB COLLECTION; OCEAN TPB; ALL STAR SUPERMAN HARDCOVER; ABSOLUTE BATMAN THE LONG HALLOWEEN SLIPCASED EDITION; DC 52: HAVE YOU SOLVED THE MYSTERY?; BATMAN COMICS MONTHLY; SUPERMAN COMICS MONTHLY; THE AMERICAN WAY GRAPHIC NOVEL

Half page The Storm Front promo (ad from the publisher) "The Storm Front"

Pencils Gene Ha; Ryan Benjamin; J. Scott Campbell
Inks Gene Ha; Ryan Benjamin; J. Scott Campbell
Letters typeset
Notes Staff credits and indicia information. Features NEXT ISSUE: AUTHORITY #3. Features House Ads for: AUTHORITY #2; GRIFTER & MIDNIGHTER #1; WORLDSTORM #2. Features Listings of comics in store for March 2007.