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The Authority: The Lost Year (2006-2010)
Series · 9 books · 2006-2011

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#1

The Authority

The Lost Year, Vol. 3 #1

2006

Grant Morrison, the universally acclaimed writer of ALL-STAR SUPERMAN, BATMAN and FINAL CRISIS, brings his talents to the new bimonthly series THE AUTHORITY, featuring art by Eisner Award-winner Gene Ha (TOP 10)! Morrison and Ha deliver an unparalleled sense of drama and dynamic storytelling to THE AUTHORITY that will leave readers gasping for breath. The first issue starts with a bang and goes up from there, reintroducing the team with intriguing new twists and revelations!
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#3

The Authority

The Lost Year (2006-) #3

2010

At last, the long-lost AUTHORITY series is being completed! Plotted by Grant Morrison and Keith Giffen and scripted by Giffen, this 12-issue, monthly maxiseries will fill in the gaps and explain where The Authority was just before "World's End," how they escaped from a horrifying alternate reality, and at what cost. With art by Darick Robertson (TRANSMETROPOLITAN, The Boys) and Trevor Scott (THE OUTSIDERS, BATGIRL), and covers by superstar Gene Ha (TOP10), this long awaited adventure is not to be missed.
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#4

The Authority

The Lost Year (2006-2010) #4

2010

Plotted by superstars Grant Morrison and Keith Giffen, written by Giffen and illustrated by some of today's most popular, uniquely talented artists, this series fills in the gap to explain where The Authority was just before "World's End," how they escaped from a horrifying alternate reality...and at what cost. Darick Robertson (TRANSMETROPOLITAN, The Boys), Trevor Scott (BATGIRL) and cover artist Gene Ha tackle this kick-off arc as The Authority find themselves stuck on an alternate reality Earth in which they're nothing more than comic book characters. It's a dying reality and neither they nor the Carrier can exist inside of it! They have to get away as soon as possible, but can they before the Carrier expires?
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#5

The Authority

The Lost Year (2006-2010) #5

2010

The Carrier is trapped in The Bleed between realities, too low on power to make it any further. And it turns out they're not alone. There are…things in The Bleed. Hungry things, that see the Carrier as a tasty meal.
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#6

The Authority

The Lost Year (2006-2010) #6

2010

Still fighting to get home, The Authority lands on an Earth where science is in a constant battle against magic-meaning in this reality, it's The Doctor versus The Engineer, with our Authority caught in the middle! Featuring art by Brian Stelfreeze (WEDNESDAY COMICS, BATMAN: SHADOW OF THE BAT)!
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#7

The Authority

The Lost Year #7

2010

On a world where superheroes are seen as witches, super-science is used to hunt heroes down before they're given kangaroo trials and then, inevitably, executed. That's exactly what was done to this Earth's Apollo, and now that our Authority has arrived, they plan on making things better. But one thing must go right: the two Midnighters they now have can't end up killing each other.
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#10

The Authority

The Lost Year #10

2010

The The Lost Year #3 through 8 by Grant Morrison, Keith Giffen, Darick Robertson, Trevor Scott, et al
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#13

The Authority

The Lost Year, Vol. 1

2010

Best-selling writers Grant Morrison and Keith Giffen co-plot this extraordinary series filling in the gaps to explain where The Authority was just before the “World’s End” event that relaunched the WildStorm Universe, how they escaped from a horrifying alternate reality, and at what cost. From Morrison’s first two issues revitalizing the team as WildStorm’s marquee heroes, Giffen took over chief writing duties with a story that saw the team’s interdimensional ship the Carrier power down and strand The Authority on an Earth in a reality they don’t recognize. Their powers barely work, and to add insult to injury, in this universe, they’re not only unknown to the population, they’re – horror of horrors – comic book characters. Will they make it back home? And if they do, will there be a home left to make it back to?
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#14

The Authority

The Lost Year, Vol. 2

2011

Best selling writers Grant Morrison and Keith Giffen co-plot this extraordinary series filling in the gaps to explain where The Authority was just before the “World’s End” event that relaunched the WildStorm Universe, how they escaped from a horrifying alternate reality, and at what cost. The Authority is stranded on an Earth in a reality they don’t recognize. Their powers barely work, and to add insult to injury, in this universe, they’re not only unknown to the population, they're – horror of horrors – comic book characters. Will they make it back home? And if they do, will there be a home left to make it back to?

Authors

Keith Giffen
Keith Giffen
Author · 163 books

Keith Ian Giffen was an American comic book illustrator and writer. He is possibly best-known for his long runs illustrating, and later writing the Legion of Super-Heroes title in the 1980s and 1990s. He also created the alien mercenary character Lobo (with Roger Slifer), and the irreverent "want-to-be" hero, Ambush Bug. Giffen is known for having an unorthodox writing style, often using characters in ways not seen before. His dialogue is usually characterized by a biting wit that is seen as much less zany than dialogue provided by longtime collaborators DeMatteis and Robert Loren Fleming. That approach has brought him both criticism and admiration, as perhaps best illustrated by the mixed (although commercially successful) response to his work in DC Comics' Justice League International (1987-1992). He also plotted and was breakdown artist for an Aquaman limited series and one-shot special in 1989 with writer Robert Loren Fleming and artist Curt Swan for DC Comics. Giffen's first published work was "The Sword and The Star", a black-and-white series featured in Marvel Preview, with writer Bill Mantlo. He has worked on titles (owned by several different companies) including Woodgod, All Star Comics, Doctor Fate, Drax the Destroyer, Heckler, Nick Fury's Howling Commandos, Reign of the Zodiac, Suicide Squad, Trencher (to be re-released in a collected edition by Boom! Studios)., T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, and Vext. He was also responsible for the English adaptation of the Battle Royale and Ikki Tousen manga, as well as creating "I Luv Halloween" for Tokyopop. He also worked for Dark Horse from 1994-95 on their Comics Greatest World/Dark Horse Heroes line, as the writer of two short lived series, Division 13 and co-author, with Lovern Kindzierski, of Agents of Law. For Valiant Comics, Giffen wrote XO-Manowar, Magnus, Robot Fighter, Punx and the final issue of Solar, Man of the Atom. He took a break from the comic industry for several years, working on storyboards for television and film, including shows such as The Real Ghostbusters and Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy. He is also the lead writer for Marvel Comics' Annihilation event, having written the one-shot prologue, the lead-in stories in Thanos and Drax, the Silver Surfer as well as the main six issues mini-series. He also wrote the Star-Lord mini-series for the follow-up story Annihilation: Conquest. He currently writes Doom Patrol for DC, and is also completing an abandoned Grant Morrison plot in The Authority: the Lost Year for Wildstorm.

Grant Morrison
Grant Morrison
Author · 255 books

Grant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning his American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL. Since then he has written such best-selling series as JLA, BATMAN and New X-Men, as well as such creator-owned works as THE INVISIBLES, SEAGUY, THE FILTH, WE3 and JOE THE BARBARIAN. In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, he has also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS. In his secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. He divides his time between his homes in Los Angeles and Scotland.

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