Usagi: from the collection of Brian M. Kane

[Steve Hubbell]

Item 1638
USAGI YOJIMBO ULTIMATE STAN SAKAI COLLECTION OF 166 ISSUES

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Value Code: I - $400 to $700

Item Description: Issue dates range from July 1987 through April 2005. Lot includes - Fantagraphics complete run of issues #1-38 plus "Usagi Yojimbo Color Special" #1-4 and "Usagi Yojimbo Summer Special" #1. Mirage Publishing complete run of issues #1-16. Dark Horse run of issues #1-83. Lot also includes three "Space Usagi" mini-series of three issues each by all three publishers. Lot rounds out w/15 misc. issues featuring Usagi. These include- "Amazing Heroes" #187 "Anything Goes" #6 "The Art Of Usagi Yojimbo" #1-2 "Command Review" #1 "Critters" #1, 3, 10, 14, 38, 50 "The Doomsday Squad" #3 "In The Zone" 2000 Special "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" #47 "Turtle Soup" #1 "The Adventures Of Nelson Ground Thumper And Hermy" #1 Issues are fresh from the rack to storage. Average grade VF/NM+. An instant collection of 166 issues. See item #1685 for original art and items #1686-1687 for limited hardcovers. From the collection of comics and illustration historian Brian M. Kane.

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Item 1685
USAGI YOJIMBO ORIGINAL SPECIALTY ART BY STAN SAKAI

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Value Code: H - $200 to $400

Item Description: 11x14" sheet of artpaper has stunningly detailed pen and ink original art of Stan Sakai's rabbit ronin character Usagi Yojimbo standing defiant on hilltop, a bladed staff in hand as his tokage lizard companion Spot walks in bkg. Art has been inscribed "To Brian - Best Wishes, Stan Sakai. NM. From the collection of comics and illustration historian Brian M. Kane.

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Item 1686
"USAGI YOJIMBO BOOK 2: SAMURAI" SIGNED & NUMBERED HARDCOVER WITH SKETCH.

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Value Code: G - $100 to $200

Item Description: 6.75x9.25" hardcover w/147 pages and original dust jacket. Published by Fantagraphics Books in 1992, this is second edition. Book collects all nine chapters of Stan Sakai's "Samurai" story as well "Kappa, Zylla" and "Silk Fair." Inside front cover has bookplate that has been hand-numbered noting this as 279 of 750 copies in a special signed and numbered edition. Author and artist Stan Sakai has signed bookplate in black felt tip pen and has added great sketch of his rabbit ronin character Usagi Yojimbo w/sword drawn. NM. Many volumes of this series of hardcovers have since gone out of print and as such have become very desirable. See following item #1687 and "Usagi Yojimbo" comic book collection #1638. From the collection of comics and illustration historian Brian M. Kane.

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Item 1687
"USAGI YOJIMBO BOOK 4: THE DRAGON BELLOW CONSPIRACY" SIGNED & NUMBERED HARDCOVER WITH SKETCH.

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Value Code: G - $100 to $200

Item Description: From same Fantagraphics Books series as previous item #1686. This is Book 4, first edition published in 1990. Book collects all seven chapters of Stan Sakai's "The Dragon Bellow Conspiracy" story as well a color section at the end. Inside front cover has bookplate that has been hand-numbered noting this as 841 of 1,500 copies in a special signed and numbered edition. Author and artist Stan Sakai has signed bookplate in black felt tip pen and has added great sketch of his rabbit ronin character Usagi Yojimbo standing in field w/sword drawn as dragonflies buzz about. NM. Many volumes of this series of hardcovers have since gone out of print and as such have become very desirable. See "Usagi Yojimbo" comic book collection #1638. From the collection of comics and illustration historian Brian M. Kane.

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