IDW numbers their Artist’s Editions, and has for some time. Here is a complete list of all Artist’s Editions sorted by publication date.
| Name | Ship Date | Number |
| Dave Stevens’ The Rocketeer Artist’s Edition | 08/18/10 | First |
| Walter Simonson’s The Mighty Thor Artist’s Edition | 08/03/11 | Second |
| John Romita’s The Amazing Spider-Man Artist’s Edition | 02/01/12 | Fourth |
| Wally Wood’s EC Stories Artist’s Edition | 02/22/12 | Third |
| David Mazzucchelli’s Daredevil Born Again: Artist’s Edition | 06/27/12 | |
| Sergio Aragones’ Groo the Wanderer Artist’s Edition | 07/25/12 | |
| Joe Kubert’s Tarzan of the Apes Artist’s Edition | 09/26/12 | |
| Gil Kane’s The Amazing Spider-Man Artist’s Edition | 01/09/13 | |
| MAD Artist’s Edition | 01/23/13 | |
| Will Eisner’s The Spirit Artist’s Edition | 04/10/13 | |
| Jack Davis’ EC Stories Artist’s Edition | 05/01/13 | |
| John Byrne’s Fantastic Four Artist’s Edition | 06/26/13 | |
| Best Of EC Comics Volume One Artist’s Edition | 07/10/13 | |
| Mark Schultz’s Xenozoic Tales Artist’s Edition | 08/14/13 | |
| Joe Kubert’s Tor Artist’s Edition | 10/30/13 | |
| Jeff Smith’s Bone: The Great Cow Race Artist’s Edition | 11/06/13 | |
| John Romita’s The Amazing Spider-Man Volume 2 Artist’s Edition | 01/29/14 | |
| Jack Kirby New Gods Artist’s Edition | 05/14/14 | 19 |
| Charles M. Schulz Peanuts Artist’s Edition | 06/18/14 | 21 |
| Steranko Nick Fury, Agent Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Artist’s Edition | 07/16/14 | 22 |
| Mike Mignola’s Hellboy In Hell And Other Stories Artist’s Edition | 07/23/14 | 23 |
| Marvel Covers Artist’s Edition | 09/24/14 | 24 |
| Basil Wolverton’s Weird Worlds Artist’s Edition | 10/29/14 | 18 |
| Walter Simonson Manhunter and Other Stories Artist’s Edition | 11/05/14 | 25 |
| John Buscema’s Silver Surfer Artist’s Edition | 12/10/14 | 26 |
| Joe Kubert Enemy Ace Artist’s Edition | 12/24/14 | 28 |
| Will Eisner’s The Spirit Artist’s Edition Volume 2 | 01/21/15 | 27 |
| Jack Kirby Mister Miracle Artist’s Edition | 03/18/15 | 29 |
| Best Of EC: Volume Two Artist’s Edition | 04/22/15 | 30 |
| Jack Kirby Kamandi: The Last Boy On Earth Vol. 1 Artist’s Edition | 06/10/15 | 33 |
| Don Rosa’s The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Vol. 1 Artist’s Edition | 06/24/15 | 32 |
| Mike Zeck’s Classic Marvel Stories Artist’s Edition | 07/01/15 | 35 |
| Eric Powell’s The Goon Artist’s Edition | 07/22/15 | 34 |
| Joe Kubert’s The Return Of Tarzan Artist’s Edition | 10/21/15 | 37 |
| Herb Trimpe’s The Incredible Hulk Artist’s Edition | 11/11/15 | 36 |
| Sam Kieth’s The Maxx Artist’s Edition | 02/24/16 | 38 |
| Graham Ingels’ EC Stories Artist’s Edition | 03/02/16 | 39 |
| Best Of DC War Artist’s Edition | 06/29/16 | 40 |
| Jack Kirby’s The Mighty Thor Artist’s Edition | 07/06/16 | 42 |
| Al Williamson’s Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Artist’s Edition | 07/13/16 | 41 |
| Mike Mignola’s The Amazing Screw-On Head Artist’s Edition | 08/31/16 | 43 |
| Marvel Covers: The Modern Era Artist’s Edition | 09/14/16 | 44 |
| Jack Kirby Kamandi Artist’s Edition Vol 2 | 10/05/16 | 45 |
| Chris Samnee’s Daredevil: Artist’s Edition | 01/04/17 | 46 |
| Jack Kirby’s Fantastic Four Artist’s Edition | 01/25/17 | 49 |
| America’s Best Comics Artist’s Edition | 02/01/17 | 47 |
Numbering began right at the beginning, with Dave Stevens’ The Rocketeer Artist’s Edition, mentioning on the “About This Edition” page that this was hopefully the first volume in an ongoing series. This continued through the next three Artist’s Editions. By the time David Mazzucchelli’s Daredevil Born Again: Artist’s Edition is published this numbering format is dropped, replaced with “part of an ongoing series”.
A standard format of numbering began with Jack Kirby New Gods Artist’s Edition, with a listing in the indices “Artist’s Edition #19”. Numbering of the volumes in this manner starts with #18, Basil Wolverton’s Weird Worlds Artist’s Edition, but that was almost a year late so it shows up after numbers 19-24 have been published.
Looking at the list one can see a few numbers missing: 20, 31 and 48. We can tackle the last one first, which is Alex Toth’s Bravo For Adventure Artist’s Edition, scheduled for December 2016 release but coming out February 2017. As for numbers 20 and 31, it’s anyone’s guess. Could be as simple as accidentally skipping a number.
There are two previously announced volumes that were never published: Walter Simonson’s Star Slammer’s Artist’s Edition and Carl Barks’ Uncle Scrooge Artifact Edition. The Artifact Editions have had consistent numbering since Dave Gibbons Watchmen Artifact Edition (#1) in August 2014, and the Barks volume was announced after that so that doesn’t fit. Perhaps we’ll see the Star Slammers volume at some point in the future.
The only way to truly know where the missing numbers went and why the numbering stopped for fourteen volumes is for Scott Dunbier to tell us…
#31 would be the long-delayed 2nd Steranko book, which had a diamond code of DEC14, which means it was solicited between Best of EC vol 2 (NOV14 / #30) and Don Rosa (JAN15 / #32)
Well done Rob. I left that hanging in the article in the hopes someone would answer in the comments.