Kurt Busiek's Astro City #9 was published by DC Comics on May 1, 1997, as part of a series that began in 1996. Kurt Busiek writes, and art comes from Alex Ross, Alex Sinclair and Brent Eric Anderson. This 36-page issue features N-Forcer, Samaritan, Cleopatra, Julius Furst and Augustus Furst, among 25 characters cataloged on VerseDB.