Topic of the day!

[Steve Hubbell]

Usagi Yojimbo: Phantoms and Ninja

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Dear Readers,
How do I get one?
Thank you for the fun!
Best wishes,
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[Mo-Chan]

May I just say that cover looks awesome....

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.........EXCEPT THAT BAT!!!!!!!


AAAAIIIIIYEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! *flees*

[Steve Hubbell]

That is the sixth and final issue of Usagi Yojimbo published under the King Comics imprint in Italy and edited by Alessandro Bottero. I believe it is the only issue published by them with previously unpublished cover-art. It has proven really difficult to find cover scans of all of the volumes (volme 5 ??) published in Italy by King Comics.

KING COMICS - USAGI YOJIMBO 6 albi
N. Titolo Prezzo
1 OMBRE DI MORTE € 4,65
2 SHI € 4,65
3 SCHIAVISTI € 7,23
4 DAISHO € 10,00
5 TRA LA VITA E LA MORTE € 10,00
6 SPETTRI E NINJA € 10,00
(collects stories published in the Dark Horse series of tpb)

KING COMICS - USAGI YOJIMBO CLASSIC 2 albi
N. Titolo Prezzo
1 USAGI YOJIMBO CLASSIC € 10,33
2 USAGI YOJIMBO CLASSIC € 13,00
(collects stories published in the Fantagraphics series of tpb)

A new series of Usagi Yojimbo has recently started under the imprint of Bottero Edizione.

BOTTERO EDIZIONI - USAGI YOJIMBO NUOVA SERIE (m3) 1 albo
N. Titolo Prezzo
1 USAGI YOJIMBO NUOVA SERIE (m3) € 5,00

Links of interest:
Alessandro Distribuzioni - Usagi Yojimbo listing
http://www.alessandroeditore.it/libreri ... G%20COMICS
(enter Usagi Yojimbo in the search box and it will bring up the listing for the new series as well)

e-mail address (I received a very quick - next day- reply):
store@alessandrodistribuzioni.it
I had trouble with the on-line ordering system, it did not seem capable of accepting international addresses. They also accept payment through paypal.

An article (in Italian) by Alessandro Bottero about Usagi Yojimbo.
http://fumettidicarta.interfree.it/Gara ... ojimbo.htm

[Stan Sakai]

I believe it is the only issue published by them with previously unpublished cover-art.

I think that art was used as a cover for UY vol 3, #4 (or #5), for a story titled Bats, the Cat, and the Rabbit. The story and a b&w of the cover was reprinted in UY Book 10: The Brink of Life & Death.

I must have drawn about 200 covers by now. It's easy to forget one or two.

[Steve Hubbell]

Well, I totally missed it...

I knew it was differant from all the tpb covers, and it did not match any of the "Grasscutter" covers.

I just totally skipped over the early Dark Horse covers since most of the other King Comics covers seemed to be taken from the tpb editions.

If I had bothered to do the math, at four issues per volume starting with the Mirage issues, volume #6 from King Comics would fall right in place for that cover. duh!

Even with the page count given, I was picturing larger volumes in my mind, trying to correspond them with the Dark Horse collections.

It is still a cool cover and very much deserved a second life on another Usagi publication.

Abayo....

[estee]

Me like Chizu....

[Todd Shogun]

Hey Steve,
Have you ever considered taking a basic HTML class? We need you working on this website, man...big time. Thanks for the contributions!

Todd