Avid comic collectors have long struggled to not only rediscover old, lost Escapist and Luna Moth tales but also figure out when and where they came from. After seeing various turn-overs to various companies with questionable record keeping and a habit of reprinting, the Empire heroes stories have become a challenge for comic scholars trying to arrange them in any sort of chronological sequence. Add to the confusion the Kavalier and Clay seem to have used various pseudeunyms over the years and the infamous "Wild Years" during the 60s and you have quite the challenge.

As such, this is a compilation of all of the stories that have seen print in Dark Horse's Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist. Some are new, but for the most part, the rest were reprints, and as the company has yet to produce a definitive list of the stories' first publishing dates, this list attempts to approximate or provide whatever dates it could.

For a chronologial listing of all Empire hero stories, including the ones not currently being republished, visit the Earth-K Timeline.

January 1940: "The Passing of the Key." Amazing Midget Radio Comics #1. Empire Comics.

• Reprinted in Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #1
• Story: Sam Clay and Michael Chabon
• Art: Joe Kavalier and Eric Wight

1940: "Mr. Machine Gun" Triumph Comics #1. Empire Comics.

• Reprinted in Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #7
• Story: Sam Clay and Michael Chabon
  
• Art: Joe Kavalier and Eduardo Barreto

1940: "A Fair to Remember" The Escapist (issue unknown). Empire Comics.

• Reprinted in Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #6
• Story: Sam Clay and Daniel Best
  
• Art: Joe Kavalier and Eddie Campbell
  

1941: "Old Flame" All Doll Comics. Empire Comics.

• Reprinted in Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #2
• Story: Sam Clay and Kevin McCarthy
• Art: Joe Kavalier and Dan Brereton
  

1941: "The Mechanist!" All Doll Comics. Empire Comics.

• Reprinted in Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #2
• Story: Sam Clay and Kevin McCarthy
• Art: Joe Kavalier and Bill Sienkiewicz

Circa 1941: "To Reign in Hell." Issue unknown, though possibly in Radio Comics #19-27. Empire Comics.

• Reprinted in Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #3
• Story: Sam Clay and Brian K. Vaughan
• Art: Joe Kavalier and Roger Petersen

Circa 1943: "The Boy Who Would Be the Escapist." The Escapist #?. Empire Comics.

• Reprinted in Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #4
• Story: Kevin C. McCarthy
• Art: C. Scott Morse

1944: "Liberators." Issue unknown. Empire Comics.

• Reprinted in Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #6
• Story: Howard Chaykin
  
• Art: Michelle Madsen

September 1949: "Electricity." Weird Date. Gold Star Publications.

• Reprinted in Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #6
• Story: Sam Clay and Steven Grant
  
• Art: Alex Toth or Jack Cole, though more likely Norm Breyfogle
  

Circa 1954: "Sequestered." Empire Comics.

• Reprinted in Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #1
• Story: Kevin McCarthy
• Art: Kyle Baker

1955: "Heil and Fear Well." Unpublished. EC Comics.

• Published in Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #3
• Story: Marv Wolfman
• Art: Joe Staton

Late 1950s: "Prison Break." Issue unknown. Score Comics.

• Reprinted in Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #1
• Story: Kevin McCarthy
• Art: Steve Lieber
  

Circa 1959: "Chain Reaction." The Escapist Featured in Radio Comics #179. Score Comics. Unpublished?

• Reprinted in Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #4
• Story and Art: Matt Kindt, Sr.

Circa 1965: "The Trial of Judy Dark." The League of the Golden K.E.Y. #?. Fab Comics.

• Reprinted in Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #3
• Story: Kevin McCarthy
• Art: Dean Haspiel (aka Jack Kirby?)

Circa 1966: The Escapist 2966 #1. Fab Comics.

• Reprinted in Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #4
• Story: Cyril M. Cutter and Stuart Moore
• Art: Steve Conley

1968: "The Final Curtain." Escapist (extremely rare final issue). Fab Comics.

• Reprinted in Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #5
• Story: Jason Hall
  
• Art: Eric Wight
  

1960s: "The Trap." Advertisement. Hausfrau Fruit Pies. Score Comics.

• Reprinted in Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #3

1960s: "The Siren Song of Circe O' Shaughnessy." Publisher and publication unknown.

• Reprinted in Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #5
• Story: Howard Chaykin
  
• Art: David Hahn
  

Circa 1972-73: "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been..." Escapist (issue unknown). Sunshine Comics.

• Reprinted in Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #1
• Story and Art: Howard Chaykin
  

July 1974: "Arms and the Man I Sing." Heavy Heroes #1. Sunshine Comics.

• Reprinted in Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #7
• Story: Danny Sonnenschein and Michael Chabon
  
• Art: Undetermined, though possibly Eduardo Barreto
  

1974: "Reckonings." All Doll #123. Sunshine Comics.

• Reprinted in Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #1
• Story and Art: Jim Starlin.

December 1976: "The Lady or the Tiger." Unpublished story for Escapist #54. Sunshine Comics.

• Published in Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #2
• Story: Glen David Gold
• Art: Gene Colan

1983: "Divine Wind." Manga. Shukan Shonen Magazine. Omnigrip Corp.

• Reprinted in Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #2
• Story: Uncredited (possibly written by Sam Clay or Kevin McCarthy)
• Art: Tonikoro (Tony Leonard Tamai)

1983: "Another Man's Escape." Chapter from unfinished Escapist one-shot. Omnigrip Corp./Eclipse Comics.

• Reprinted in Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #2
• Story: Chris Offutt
  
• Art: Thomas Yeates
  

1991: "300 Fathoms Down." New Adventures of the Escapist. Escapist Comics.

• Reprinted in Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #3
• Story: Mike Barron
• Art: Dan Brereton
  

February 2004: "The EscapeGoat." Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #1. Dark Horse Comics.

• Story and Art: Joe Kavalier, Sam Clay, and Kevin McCarthy

July 2004: "The EscapeNot." Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #3. Dark Horse Comics.

• Story and Art: Paul Hornscheimeier
  

July 2004: "The EscapeNot In: Rescue on the Rooftops." Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #5. Dark Horse Comics.

• Story and Art: Paul Hornscheimeier

2004: "The Escapist Escapes Again." Underground mini-comic.

• Legally printed in Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #5
• Story and Art: Jeffrey Brown

February 2005: "The Death of the Escapist." Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #5. Dark Horse Comics.

• Story: Kevin McCarthy
• Art: Shawn Martinbrough
  

February 2005: "Doc Hypnosis vs. The Escapist." Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #5. Dark Horse Comics.

• Story and Art: Paul Grist

April 2005: "The Escapist & The Spirit." Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #6. Dark Horse Comics.

• Story and Art: Will Eisner
  
• Assists: Alex Saviuk
  

April 2005: "The EscapeNot In: Look into the Abyss." Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #6. Dark Horse Comics.

• Story and Art: Paul Hornscheimeier

April 2005: "The 'Escapist'." Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #6. Dark Horse Comics.

• Story and Art: Jason