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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published August 2000
Cover Price 9.95 USD; 14.95 CAD
Pages 308
Editing Dan Harris (editor); Mike Hansen (editor); Tim Ervin-Gore (assistant editor); Toren Smith (consulting editor); Darin Fabrick (book design); Mark Cox (art director)
Notes ISBN 1-5691-502-5

Cover Details - "The Assassin's Road"

Characters Ogami Ittō; Ogami Daigorō
Pencils Frank Miller
Inks Frank Miller
Colors Lynn Varley
Reprinted from Lone Wolf and Cub (First, 1987 series) #7

30 page story "Son for Hire, Sword for Hire"

Script Kazuo Koike; Dana Lewis (translator)
Pencils Goseki Kojima; Digital Chameleon (touch-ups)
Inks Goseki Kojima
Letters Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from Weekly Manga Action (Futabasha, 1967 series) #? [September 1970]

30 page story "A Father Knows His Child's Heart, as Only a Child Can Know His Father's"

Script Kazuo Koike; Dana Lewis (translator)
Pencils Goseki Kojima; Digital Chameleon (touch-ups)
Inks Goseki Kojima
Letters Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from ?

29 page story "From North to South, From West to East"

Script Kazuo Koike; Dana Lewis (translator)
Pencils Goseki Kojima; Digital Chameleon (touch-ups)
Inks Goseki Kojima
Letters Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from ?

28 page story "Baby Cart on the River Styx"

Script Kazuo Koike; Dana Lewis (translator)
Pencils Goseki Kojima; Digital Chameleon (touch-ups)
Inks Goseki Kojima
Letters Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from ?

29 page story "Suio School Zanbato"

Script Kazuo Koike; Dana Lewis (translator)
Pencils Goseki Kojima; Digital Chameleon (touch-ups)
Inks Goseki Kojima
Letters Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from ?

23 page story "Waiting for the Rains"

Script Kazuo Koike; Dana Lewis (translator)
Pencils Goseki Kojima; Digital Chameleon (touch-ups)
Inks Goseki Kojima
Letters Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from ?

30 page story "Eight Gates of Deceit"

Script Kazuo Koike; Dana Lewis (translator)
Pencils Goseki Kojima; Digital Chameleon (touch-ups)
Inks Goseki Kojima
Letters Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from ?

58 page story "Wings to the Birds, Fangs to the Beast"

Script Kazuo Koike; Dana Lewis (translator)
Pencils Goseki Kojima; Digital Chameleon (touch-ups)
Inks Goseki Kojima
Letters Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from ?

28 page story "The Assassin's Road"

Script Kazuo Koike; Dana Lewis (translator)
Pencils Goseki Kojima; Digital Chameleon (touch-ups)
Inks Goseki Kojima
Letters Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from ?

4 page text article "Glossary"

Script Dana Lewis

1 page biography (nonfictional) "Kazuo Koike"

1 page biography (nonfictional) "Goseki Kojima"

3 page text article "The Ronin Report"

Script Tim Ervin-Gore