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Each issue comprised four stories, with five features introduced overall. These were:

* Jack B. Quick: A boy scientist given to experiments like putting buttered toast on a cat's back. (You see, toast always lands butter-side down, and cat's always land on their feet.)

* Splash Brannigan: A living blob of four-dimensional ink. Quite friendly.

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* [[Affectionate Parody]]

* [[Anthology Comic]]

* [[Too Good to Last]]: Only twelve issues plus a couple of ABC (America's Best Comics) specials.

=== Greyshirt ===

* [[Arch Enemy]]: Johnny Apollo.

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Nearly every supposedly one-shot character from the Tomorrow Stories Greyshirt segments reappear in ''Indigo Sunset'', either for a cameo or revealed to have been more ingrained in Greyshirt's life than previously alluded.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Something of a staple in Greyshirt's [[Rogues Gallery]], most noticeably Johnny Apollo and Lapis Lazuli.

* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: Ella Bly sold Franky Lafayette out to Johnny Apollo in exchange for help in launching her music career. Well, years later she's now a famous blues singer and pianist, but her face was badly burned by Johnny with an iron.

* [[Cool Big Bro]]: Greyshirt.

* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: Carmine Carbone and Lips Lafayette. Carmine went to pot du to excessive drinking. Lips sold Carmine out to the police because prison was much safer than on the streets, considering Spats Katz and Johnny Apollo could've easily had him killed in the state he was in. She then goes blind from glaucoma and gives up her second child by Carmine for adoption. Their daughter, named Catherine Smith, is born slightly retarded from Lips' drinking and is raised in an orphanage. {{spoiler|By ''Indigo Sunset'', Lips is a blind newspaper vendor called "Lady L", Carmine is a shell of himself who lives in a halfway home for convicts, and Catherine is a twelve-year old papergirl. The three are kidnapped by Fanman (Johnny Apollo), both in an attempt to draw out Greyshirt and because Lips and Carmine could easily sue for the profits made from ''The Carbones''. As Lips and Carmine try to get out of the Indigo City mines, the sight of the Lure brings Carmine back to his senses. The two plan to make up for all the lost years by getting married and raising Catherine.}}

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The Lure.

* [[Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor]]: Vinnie Assapunto.

* [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]]: Subverted, in that most of the people who do the smoking are mobsters.

* [[Insufferable Genius]]: Artist Andy Savannah, who made a living simply copying panels from ''Hoodlum Hits'', the comic that was about Franky Lafayette and Johnny Apollo.

* [[I Was Quite a Looker]]: Lips, Candy, and Ella.

* [[The Power of Love]]: The fabled Star of Indigo sapphire, a giant sapphire which has the uncanny ability of uniting a man and woman together.

* [[Punny Name]]: Vinnie Assapunto hates being the butt of jokes. Assapunto = ass + pun. Also, the title of his story is "The Butt Kicks Back", which is another rearrangement of his last name to "ass punt".

* [[Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!]]: Lady L.

* [[Spin-Off]]: Was the only character from ''Tomorrow Stories'' to receive his own spin-off miniseries, which not only incorporated everything from the previous stories but further expanded his backstory.

* [[Story Within a Story]]: ''Indigo Sunset'' contained a number of short comic strips done in the style of newspaper comics, up until the fifth issue.

* [[That Man Is Dead]]: The world thinks Franky Lafayette is dead. He thinks it's better that way.

* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: One story focused on Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich, reincarnated as cockroaches in an old woman's kitchen. They're later exterminated with some roach motels, but come back again as a germ culture that's implied to be incinerated.

=== Cobweb ===

* [[Anything That Moves]]

* [[Intercontinuity Crossover]]: With Greyshirt. She's the one woman he could never have, and you can probably figure out why. Well, they had ''sex'', of course, but still.

* [[Legacy Character]]: The current Cobweb is not the first.

* [[Living Doll Collector]]: Phallocrates Phlange.

* [[Multiple Choice Past]]

** [[All There in the Manual]]: ''ABC A-Z'' #2 revealed that the other incarnations of Cobweb and Clarice that have appeared in the 19th Century, the 1940s and 1960s were the ancestors of the current Cobweb and Clarice. It also revealed that the Cobweb of the 1940s was in fact the first heroic one, as all the previous ones were all debased and evil. Okay granted, Cobweb is still a bit debased.

* [[Rogues Gallery]]: Money Spider, the Lost Housewives of New Jersey, Little Bo Peep, Dr. Phallocrates Phlange, and the Weasel.

* [[Stripperific]]: Mostly see-through costume.

* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: If anything, her internal monologues while battling the Weasel reveal this. But Cobweb's very good at pretending otherwise.

* [[Truly Single Parent]]: Cobweb and Clarice are the latest generation of a bloodline of parthenogenetic Central American lesbians.

* [[Vapor Wear]]: Cobweb wears nothing beneath her see-through costume.

* [[Woman Scorned]]: Her so-called "relationship" with the Weasel ends this way.

* [[Writer Revolt]]: While nothing confirmed, Melinda Gebbie stopped doing the artwork for Cobweb after issue seven. The story after that would've been the aforementioned Scientology story.

* [[You Are Fat]]: Cobweb, after killing the Weasel and his captive Astounding Woman by setting his hideout on fire, tells the press that she "was probably too fat to escape in time".

=== First American ===

* [[Arch Enemy]]: His most recurring foe, the fat, suicidal opera singer Gerta Dammerung.

* [[Hollywood Pudgy]]: Characters comment that he's got a weight problem, but he's clearly illustrated with a [[Heroic Build]]. However, in the ABC 80-Page Giant, one of the fake ads featured a superhero girdle meant to fake six-pack abs, with F.A. as the model. And on the cover of the first trade, Kevin Nowlan clearly drew him with a beer gut.

* [[Idiot Hero]]

* [[No Fourth Wall]]

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: The relationship between F.A. and U.S.Angel shifts from her being a disrespected sidekick, to her barely putting up with him.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Gerta. Her attempts at destroying the world usually stem from her belief that it needs to be put out of its misery, or because of homicidal depression caused by her lack of a love life.

=== Jack B Quick ===

* [[Alien Abduction]]: An inversion. Jack actually abducts an alien of his own, and holds it hostage. In return, the aliens deliver Glenn Miller and his orchestra.

* [[Black Comedy]]: He fails to notice that his cheerful meddling in [[Things Man Was Not Meant to Know]] drives his [[American Gothic Couple|simple farming parents]] into depression and eventually [[Driven to Suicide|suicide]]. This is pretty much in the background.

* [[Insufferable Genius]]

* [[Mad Scientist]]

* [[Teen Genius]] (Actually, twelve.)

=== Splash Brannigan ===

* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: In a story that had Splash go up against a white-colored doppelganger, after spending the entire story fighting, they dawn on an epiphany about co-operation and friendship... and then Splash disintegrates him. The moral? Don't bet on the white guy.

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Sidney J. Kaput, Daisy's editor and the owner of Kaput Comics, once went on a rant about his carefully controlled heroin addiction, and how he once stalked Flo Steinberg and Marie Severin.

* [[No Fourth Wall]]

* [[Plucky Girl]]: Daisy Screensaver.

 

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