Post images of your Usagi rarities here!

Casey Burns · Post by **Casey Burns** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 13:22 -0700

I thought it would be fun to start a thread where everyone can post scans and photos of rare Usagi appearances and promo items. I'm mainly doing this because I sold off my collection of cameos, pinups, etc, several years ago, and wish I had thought to scan those pages first!

So, who's got scans of Usagi in Patrick Rabbit? Or the cameo in Gwim Bear?
Or tip-in plate and endpaper art from the limited hardcovers?

Please post anything you've got in this thread.

I'll start out by (re)posting the as yet unreprinted one-pager "Ninja Hunt", from the More Funds Comic collection, 2003. Thanks to Steve Hubbell for tracking it down.

Casey Burns · Post by **Casey Burns** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 17:45 -0700

Here are the two Myspace Usagi stories, Saya and Cut the Plum. Still viewable at Dark Horse's Myspace page, but all in one place here.

Casey Burns · Post by **Casey Burns** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 23:41 -0700

Here's another one-pager I found in another thread, from a convention program:

Post by **Steve Hubbell** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 0:33 -0700

Check out some of the cool stuff posted here.....

Other Comicbook Characters by Stan Sakai

Here are some of my personal favorates.....

coolray85 · Post by **coolray85** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 8:32 -0700

that was a great idea to share these rarities here.-thank you, guys!I wouldn't have known about some of these otherwise.I love the usagi meets godzilla piece;)....made me laugh inside!;)

Casey Burns · Post by **Casey Burns** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 13:15 -0700

Thanks for that link, Steve, I didn't know all that stuff was here.
Here's the Gwim Bear cameo I mentioned.

And the Usagi-fish appearance in Fish Police:

Usagi and Ms. Tree:

Usagi and some Bone characters:

Space Usagi on a Ninja High School cover (never saw this before):

Burrito back cover:

Usagi and Shi:

Tomoe and an amoeba

Casey Burns · Post by **Casey Burns** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 18:04 -0700

Here are all the Swimsuit Issue pinups plus a piece from Stan's self promo kit.

cynlee · Post by **cynlee** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 20:53 -0700

I miss Amazing Heroes Swimsuit editions-- and Amazing Heroes as well.

Post by **Todd Shogun** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 14:26 -0700

Those were the days

coolray85 · Post by **coolray85** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 15:34 -0700

where have these beach comics been published?I like the idea behind these things...to me it's like the creators make ittle side projects to show how our/ their beloved creations could experience something that everybody is familiar with, a situation we all seem to know from anual summer vacations and so forth....makes me smile...

Stan Sakai · Post by **Stan Sakai** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 15:56 -0700

coolray85 wrote:where have these beach comics been published?

Those were from the Amazing Heroes Swimsuit Specials, an annual special when AH was published by Fantagraphics. They were fun issues with art from a diverse group of comic book guys drawing everything from Marvel superheroes to independent creations. I miss those.

coolray85 · Post by **coolray85** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 17:11 -0700

I have never heard of that before, sounds like fun!somebody should bring things as these back;)...
the usagi fish cameo is very funny, too!;)hahaha, I had to look for quite some time to find him;)

Casey Burns · Post by **Casey Burns** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 18:03 -0700

Here's one I found on the Dojo Facebook page. Back cover to PARA KARMATRÓN: Y LOS TRANSFORMABLES #3

And a pinup from Reed Gunther:

Post by **Steve Hubbell** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 18:47 -0700

Oscar González Loyo's PARA KARMATRÓN: Y LOS TRANSFORMABLES #3 was published by Ka-Boom Studios in Mexico, the same place the pin-up below was published.

Unfortunately, just what publication this pin-up was published in is a mystery to me.

Jet_Jaguar · Post by **Jet_Jaguar** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 20:06 -0700

I'd never seen Stan's "Great Wave off Kanagawa" tribute before. I like that! (I'm currently using the original painting as the desktop background image on my computer.)