Ultimate Muscle The Kinnikuman Legacy GN (2004-2011 Digest) comic books 2004

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Story and art by Yudetamago. What do you do when a team of evil super-powered wrestlers from another planet threatens the health and safety of the Earth? Organize a team of good super-powered wrestlers, of course! Kid Muscle, the son of legendary wrestler King Muscle, rockets to Earth and finds an evil wrestling gang called the D.M.P. tearing the place apart. The punks of the DMP are the weirdest, nastiest, most outlandishly powerful muscle-bound freaks the galaxy has ever known. Kid Muscle's only hope: form a team that's even wilder. Lazy and cowardly, the Kid sure doesn't look like the universe's last great hope, but when something upsets him - like, say, evil - he busts out in muscles just like his old man! The only possible result is earthshaking, body-slamming, ultimate-powered action that sends our entire planet sailing over the top rope! But before they can take on the DMP, Kid Muscle and his new partners must prove their mettle by defeating the most renowned fighters in the known universe. For Kid Muscle, that means taking down the one wrestler he never wanted to face in the ring: dear old Dad! NOTE: Not available outside the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 232 pages, B&W. NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left. Cover price $7.95.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. Story and art by Yudetamago. Dial Bolic, the human cell phone with the psychologically devastating Trauma Call. The Pumpinator, who can transform himself into a giant sneaker and stomp his adversaries into the mat. Sunshine, who has vowed to train the meanest, nastiest wrestlers in the universe, and his proteges, the Nightmare Twins. Welcome to wrestling, Ultimate style. When Kid Muscle and his friends agreed to take down the evil wrestling organization known as the DMP, they had no idea what they were in for. Now they're facing members of the DMP for the first time, and it's not a pretty view. If the Kid wants to walk out of the ring alive, he'll have to think fast. He'll have to bust out unthinkable new moves. And he'll have to fight dirty. Reeeeeal dirty. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 232 pages, B&W. NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left. Cover price $7.95.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. Story and art by Yudetamago. Kid Muscle, referee? Even though his teammates don't trust him any further than they can throw him (which, admittedly, is pretty far), the Kid finds himself refereeing a brutal match between Terry Kenyon, top-ranked wrestler for the side of Good, and Tyrannoclaw, who is exactly as evil as his name suggests. As for Kid Muscle's own battles, he's less interested in saving the Earth than he is in beefing up his ratings in the fan polls. But bad news waits in the wings: Checkmate, a chess-obsessed wrestler with three heads and no sense of pain. Not even the greatest wrestler in the galaxy can beat an opponent who can't be hurt. And Checkmate isn't about to fight the greatest wrestler in the galaxy: he's got his sights on Kid Muscle! Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 232 pages, B&W. NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left. Cover price $7.95.

Volume 4 - 1st printing. Story and art by Yudetamago. Kid Muscle and his teammates have survived battles with some of the nastiest superpowered scum in the galaxy, but they're about to face their most terrifying opponents yet: Generation Ex. The Gen Ex wrestlers have superior power and all the moves, and they're hell-bent on forcing Kid Muscle and friends into early retirement. Who are they? The latest graduates from the Muscle League's own Hercules Factory! Now the New Generation heroes we've all grown to know and love must defeat newcomer Jaeger's Red Rain of Pain and the limber liquid powers of Hydrozoa... or be banished from Earth forever! Will the New Generation be tossed aside like yesterday's beef bowl? And will Kid Muscle care? Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 232 pages, B&W. NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left. Cover price $7.95.