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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published November 1995
Cover Price 16.95 USD
Pages 268
Editing Annette Roman

Cover Details

Genre fantasy; period
Pencils Photo montage
Inks Photo montage
Colors Viz Graphics

4 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Osamu Tezuka and Adolf"

Script Frederik L. Schodt
Letters typeset

247 page Adolf story "A Tale Of The Twentieth Century"

Characters Adolf Kaufmann, Adolf Kamil, Sohei Toge, Section Chief Yoneyama, Rita Weber (Lampe), Acetylene Lampe, Herr Kaufmann, Yukie Kaufmann, Noriko Ogi, Colonel Honda, Gerhardt Michet, Issac Kamil
Synopsis The connected story of two boys named Adolf growing up in 1930s Japan, one half-Jewish, the other German.
Genre fantasy; period
Script Osamu Tezuka; Yuji Oniki (translator)
Pencils Osamu Tezuka
Inks Osamu Tezuka
Letters Yoshiyuki Higuchi
Notes Volume also credits Yoshiyuki Higuchi for touch-up art. The story is split into six chapters