The Authority



The Authority is published by DC Comics. Current price per issue is $4.99.

Last Issue

 * The Authority #29: 02 Dec 2010

Current Issue

 * Superman and The Authority #1: 20 Jul 2021

Next Issue

 * Superman and The Authority #2: 17 Aug 2021

Status
A new four-issue series, Superman and The Authority, started July 2021

Main Characters

 * Apollo


 * The Doctor


 * The Engineer


 * Hawksmoor


 * Jenny Quarx


 * The Midnighter


 * Swift

Trade Paperbacks

 * The Authority, vol. 1: Relentless - Collects vol. 1 #1-8. -


 * The Authority, vol. 2: Under New Management - Collects vol. 1 #9-16. -


 * The Authority, vol. 3: Earth Inferno and Other Stories - Collects vol. 1 #17-20 & Annual 2000. -


 * The Authority, vol. 4: Transfer of Power - Collects vol. 1 #22-29. -


 * The Authority, vol. 5: Harsh Realities - Collects vol. 2 #0-5, plus Sleeper #3, Stormwatch: Team Achilles #9, and Wildcats Version 3.0 #8. "Reality Incorporated is the first ever multiversal business corporation. They strip-mine and globalise on a universal scale. Now they want The Authority's technology as their next exploitable resource or they'll reduced the Earth to an asteroid cloud. The Authority has only one answer - fight's on!" -


 * The Authority, vol. 6: Fractured Worlds - Collects vol. 2 #6-14. "When interference by world governments caused an alien spaceship to crash into Florida, the Authority were forced to take matters into their own hands and are now, quite literally, running the planet. They are the only real superpower left on Earth, but after their coup things aren't going quite as well as planned." -


 * The Authority: Revolution, Book One Collects Revolution #1-6. -


 * The Authority: Revolution, Book Two Collects Revolution #7-12. -


 * The Authority: The Lost Year Book 1 - Collects vol. 4 #1-7. -


 * The Authority: Prime - Collects the six-issue Prime mini-series. "The Authority and StormWatch Prime were once teammates and the closest of comrades…but a custody battle over Henry Bendix's secret bunker causes long-held grudges to boil over." -


 * The Authority: World's End Book One - Collects vol. 5 #1-7. "The WildStorm Universe has been shattered by an apocalyptic event. Does the Authority have a hope of rebuilding their 'finer world,' or is that dream dead and gone?" -


 * The Authority: Rule Brittania - Collects vol. 5 #8-16. "The super-team created to protect Earth from threats of a global scale struggle to carry on after they fail in their mission." -


 * Superman and The Authority - Collects Superman and The Authority #1-4. "Sometimes even Superman needs to enlist help. Sometimes tasks require methods and heroes unfit even for the Justice League. So Clark Kent seeks out Manchester Black, the most dastardly of rogues, to form an all-new Authority tasked with taking care of some business on the sly. But can the Man of Steel hold together and inspire a team of rogues to become the heroes he needs?" - - (forthcoming, November 2021)


 * The Authority, vol. 1 - Collects vol. 1 #1-12. - -  -


 * The Authority, vol. 2 - Collects vol. 1 #13-29. - -  -


 * The Authority by Ed Brubaker and Dustin Nguyen - Collects Revolution #1-12. -


 * The Authority, Book One - Collects vol. 1 #1-12 & Planetary/The Authority. -


 * The Authority, Book Two - Collects vol. 1 #13-29 & Annual 2000. -

Hardcovers

 * The Authority, vol. 1 - Collects vol. 1 #1-12. "The new team battles a nation of super-powered terrorists and stops an invasion from a parallel world. Then, the team faces a godlike invader returns to Earth after eons in exile." -


 * The Authority, vol. 2 - Collects vol. 1 #13-29. "The team faces a mad scientist and his army of superhumans who wanted to influence the 21st century through Jenny Spark’s successor Jenny Quantum, a previous Doctor who manipulated the Earth itself, and a team modeled on the Authority that was created by the G7 nations." -


 * The Absolute Authority, vol. 1 - Collects vol. 1 #1-12 & Planetary/The Authority. -


 * The Absolute Authority, vol. 2 - Collects vol. 1 #13-29 & Annual 2000. -

Omnibus Hardcovers

 * The Authority Omnibus - Collects vol. 1 #1-29 & Annual #1, plus Planetary/The Authority and Jenny Sparks: The Secret History of the Authority #1-5. -

Leftover Useful Information
Created by: Warren Ellis & Bryan Hitch.

Superman and The Authority
Writer: Grant Morrison. Artist: Mikel Janín.

Publishing History

 * Volume 1: #1-29, 1999-2002
 * Volume 2: #0-14, 2003-2004
 * Revolution: 2004-2005
 * Volume 4: #1-12, 2006-2007, 2010 (#3-12 as The Lost Year)
 * Volume 5: #1-29, 2008-2011

Future Publication Dates

 * Superman and The Authority #2: 17 Aug 2021
 * Superman and The Authority #3: 17 Aug 2021
 * Superman and The Authority #4: 07 Sep 2021
 * Batman/Superman Authority Special #1: 02 Nov 2021
 * Superman and The Authority TP: 16 Nov 2021

News & Features

 * 24 Mar 2009 - Keith Giffen on Finishing Morrison's Authority
 * 08 Dec 2008 - Mapping the Wildstorm Universe: The Authority
 * 12 Nov 2008 - Ambidextrous - This is Why (The Authority)
 * 15 May 2008 - Wild at Heart: Simon Coleby
 * 05 Apr 2007 - Getting Some Authority: Christos Gage on his Upcoming Authority Arc

Links

 * DC Comics - Publisher's Website
 * Authority (comic book)