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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published May 2007
Cover Price 2.99 USD; 3.55 CAD
Pages 32
Editing Phil Smith (Managing Editor)

Cover Details - "Cover A"

Characters Witchblade Takeru Manga
Genre Occult; Super-hero
Pencils Kazasa Sumita
Inks Kazasa Sumita
Colors Kevin Senft [as Blond]
Letters None; typeset

1 page credits "Title page"

Pencils Chaz Riggs (design)
Colors Kevin Senft [as Blond]
Letters typeset
Notes Creator credits and indicia information (*there may be an error in the indicia information. It states: April 2007 wherein the indicia information located in the Moo News states May 2007). Features the Witchblade Manga logo top of page and the Witchblade Takeru Managa masthead logo at bottom of page against an interwoven backdrop pattern.

13 page Witchblade Takeru story "You awake?"

Characters Witchblade [Takeru]; Kou; [Kou's father]
Synopsis Takeru joins with the Witchblade, the Demon Claw, for the first time. And as Takeru struggles against the power of the Witchblade, Kou also realizes his own destiny and struggles with the burden of his heritage.
Genre Occult; Super-hero
Script Yasuko Kobayashi; Shoko Oono (Translator); Brian Buccellato (English Adaptation)
Pencils Kazasa Sumita
Inks Kazasa Sumita
Colors Kevin Senft [as Blond]
Letters Troy Peteri
Notes Top Cow worked with Studio Gonzo, Akita Shoten and Kazasa Sumita to bring this new, colorized version that reads left to right for the standard American comic size.
Reprinted Originally published by Akita Shoten as "Witchblade Takeru" in Japan's popular magazine Champion Red.

9 page Witchblade Takeru story "Chapter 3 Sword of Steel"

Characters Witchblade [Takeru]; Kou
Synopsis Takeru joins with the Witchblade, the Demon Claw, for the first time. And as Takeru struggles against the power of the Witchblade, Kou also realizes his own destiny and struggles with the burden of his heritage.
Genre Occult; Super-hero
Script Yasuko Kobayashi; Shoko Oono (Translator); Brian Buccellatio (English Adaptation)
Pencils Kazasa Sumita
Inks Kazasa Sumita
Colors Kevin Senft [as Blond]
Letters Troy Peteri
Notes Top Cow worked with Studio Gonzo, Akita Shoten and Kazasa Sumita to bring this new, colorized version that reads left to right for the standard American comic size.
Reprinted Originally published by Akita Shoten as "Witchblade Takeru" in Japan's popular magazine Champion Red.

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "World Moos"

Synopsis The Top Cow World Moos takes on the format of a Bullpen Page of news and releases.
Genre Fact; News
Notes Features: FIRST BORN #1; Next Issue: WITCHBLADE TAKERU MANGA #4; From the Office; On Sale in May: MADAME MIRAGE #1, FRESHMEN II #6, WITCHBLADE #108, THE DARKNESS: LEVEL #4. Top Cow staff credits and indicia information.

7 page advertisement "Advertisements"

Notes Madame Mirage (comic book series, Top Cow); Schoolgirl Witchblade (statue, Clayburn Moore Studios); Witchblade Tankobon Vol. 1 (Trade paperback, Bandai Entertainment); Comic Guaranty Corporation (numismatic service); REVV 30 (car, Mazda); Limited Editions (back issues, Top Cow); Hot New Art (original comic art, Marc Silvestri Studios)