Jack-in-the-Box – A clown-themed vigilante with no known powers but agility and an arsenal of clown and toy-inspired weaponry.Besides his membership duties with Honor Guard, he operates in his home city of Detroit. The Acceleration Ace – Super-speedster and member of Honor Guard. He is active in Astro City since the 19th century and is rumored to have existed since at least the Middle Ages.

The Hanged Man – A ghostly figure who protects Shadow Hill, appearing as a floating apparition with a burlap sack over his head and a noose around his neck.

Crackerjack – An egocentric, reckless crime-fighter, with amazing agility and a staff weapon, active since 1991.

In the Confession arc from the second volume of the series, even his new sidekick struggles to know more about his mentor. His history is a blur of myths and assumptions, as dark as his crime fighting methods.

The Confessor – A mysterious vigilante detective, apparently active from the 1950s to the mid-1990s.

Samaritan is the first hero in the series to receive an origin story. He is sometimes referred to as 'Big Red'. A time-traveler, he appeared in this era in 1985, active as a hero since 1986 and is a current member of Honor Guard.

Samaritan – An extremely powerful hero.

Some of the more prominent personalities of Astro City are listed below: Counting all series, mini-series and special issues, over 100 issues have been published. A third, ongoing volume was launched under DC's Vertigo imprint in 2013 and concluded in 2018, reverting to occasional miniseries and original graphic novels. During this period it switched from a regular ongoing series to a sequence of periodic mini-series and special issues. In 1996, a second volume was launched under the Homage Comics imprint of Image partner studio WildStorm, which was then acquired by DC Comics, where the series later transitioned to the WildStorm Signature Series imprint and continued until 2010.

The first volume was published from 1995 to 1996 by Image Comics. Created and written by Kurt Busiek, the series is mostly illustrated by Brent Anderson, with character designs and painted covers by Alex Ross. Kurt Busiek's Astro City is an American superhero anthology comic book series centered on a fictional American city of that name.

Astro City, Vol. 2 by Kurt Busiek