Usagi Yojimbo
#5
[First Printing]
(August 1992)
Fantagraphics,
1987 Series
- Volume
- 5
- Price
- 12.95 USD
- Pages
- 148
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fantagraphics Books
- Brand
-
Fantagraphics Books [serif, double border]
- ISBN
-
1-56097-088-X
- Barcode
- ?
- Editing
- Kim Thompson (editor)
Issue Notes
first edition, August 1992 (base index data from this edition)
second edition, June 2000
This issue has variants:
second edition, June 2000
This issue has variants:
Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo Book Five
Usagi Yojimbo / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Stan Sakai (painting)
- Inks
- Stan Sakai (painting)
- Colors
- Stan Sakai (painting)
- Letters
- Stan Sakai
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Characters
- Miyamoto Usagi; Ando
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
New cover art.
![Cover Thumbnail for Usagi Yojimbo (1987 series) #5 [Second Printing]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/128/w100/128378.jpg?8991113023903593813)
Usagi Yojimbo Book Five
Usagi Yojimbo / text article / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
Indexer Notes
half-title page; no art
Usagi Yojimbo Book Five
Usagi Yojimbo / text article / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Characters
- Miyamoto Usagi
- Reprints
- from ? [illustration from earlier trade paperbacks?]
Indexer Notes
title page for book; illustration dated 1988
To Hannah
Usagi Yojimbo / text article / 1 page
- Script
- Stan Sakai
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
Indexer Notes
dedication; on copyright page
Contents
Usagi Yojimbo; Kozure Okami [Lone Wolf and Cub] spoof / text article / 1 page
- Script
- Stan Sakai
- Pencils
- Stan Sakai
- Inks
- Stan Sakai
- Letters
- Stan Sakai (speech balloons); typeset (text)
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Characters
- Lone Goat and Kid [Yagi; Gorogoro]; Miyamoto Usagi
Indexer Notes
table of contents; illustrated with a panel from page 132 of this book
Introduction
Usagi Yojimbo / text article / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
introduction; describes Sakai's lettering and cartooning work
Chapter One "Frost and Fire"
Usagi Yojimbo / text article / 1 page
- Script
- Stan Sakai
- Pencils
- Stan Sakai
- Inks
- Stan Sakai
- Letters
- Stan Sakai (speech balloons); typeset
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Characters
- Miyamoto Usagi
Indexer Notes
story title page; illustrated with a panel from page 21 of this book
Frost & Fire
Usagi Yojimbo / comic story / 20 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Characters
- Lady Koriko; Miyamoto Usagi; Atsuko
- Synopsis
- Usagi is hired to retrieve a dead samurai's swords.
- Reprints
-
from Usagi Yojimbo (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #19 (December 1989)
-
Chapter Two "A Kite Story"
Usagi Yojimbo / text article / 1 page
- Script
- Stan Sakai
- Pencils
- Stan Sakai
- Inks
- Stan Sakai
- Letters
- Stan Sakai (speech balloons); typeset
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Characters
- Tatsusaburo
Indexer Notes
story title page; illustrated with a panel from page 43 of this book
A Kite Story
Usagi Yojimbo / comic story / 20 pages
- Script
- Stan Sakai
- Pencils
- Sergio Aragonés (Groo cameo); Stan Sakai
- Inks
- Sergio Aragonés (Groo cameo); Stan Sakai
- Letters
- Stan Sakai
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Characters
- Tatsusaburo; Groo (cameo); Hatsu; Miyamoto Usagi
- Synopsis
- Usagi gets in trouble with gamblers at a kite festival.
- Reprints
- from Usagi Yojimbo (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #20 (February 1990)
-
Indexer Notes
story contains a description of traditional Japanese kite-making techniques
Chapter Three "Blood Wings"
Usagi Yojimbo / text article / 1 page
- Script
- Stan Sakai
- Pencils
- Stan Sakai
- Inks
- Stan Sakai
- Letters
- Stan Sakai (speech balloons); typeset
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Characters
- Miyamoto Usagi; Ando
Indexer Notes
story title page; illustrated with a panel from page 88 of this book
Blood Wings
Usagi Yojimbo / comic story / 20 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Characters
- Miyamoto Usagi; Tsubo; Ando; Lord Hebi; Kashira Chizu (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Usagi gets trapped in a village by ninja bats.
- Reprints
- from Usagi Yojimbo (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #21 (April 1990)
-
Blood Wings Part 2
Usagi Yojimbo / comic story / 20 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Characters
- Miyamoto Usagi; Ando
- Synopsis
- Usagi helps villagers fight ninja bats.
- Reprints
- from Usagi Yojimbo (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #22 (May 1990)
-
Chapter Four "The Way of the Samurai"
Usagi Yojimbo / text article / 1 page
- Script
- Stan Sakai
- Pencils
- Stan Sakai
- Inks
- Stan Sakai
- Letters
- Stan Sakai (speech balloons); typeset
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Characters
- General Oyaneko; Miyamoto Usagi
Indexer Notes
story title page; illustrated with a panel from page 101 of this book
The Way of the Samurai
Usagi Yojimbo / comic story / 20 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Characters
- Miyamoto Usagi; Monshiro; General Oyaneko; Lord Hirone (cameo); Lone Goat and Kid [Yagi; Gorogoro] (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Usagi meets a famous general.
- Reprints
- from Usagi Yojimbo (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #23 (July 1990)
-
Chapter Five "Lone Goat and Kid"
Usagi Yojimbo; Kozure Okami [Lone Wolf and Cub] spoof / text article / 1 page
- Script
- Stan Sakai
- Pencils
- Stan Sakai
- Inks
- Stan Sakai
- Letters
- Stan Sakai (sound effects); typeset (text)
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Characters
- Lone Goat [Yagi]
Indexer Notes
story title page; illustrated with a panel from page 117 of this book
Lone Goat And Kid!
Usagi Yojimbo; Kozure Okami [Lone Wolf and Cub] spoof / comic story / 28 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Characters
- Lone Goat and Kid [Yagi; Gorogoro]; Counselor Wakame; Counselor Tadon; Counselor Kagihana; Miyamoto Usagi
- Synopsis
- Enemies of the Lone Goat and Kid hire them to kill Usagi.
- Reprints
- from Usagi Yojimbo (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #24 (September 1990)
-
[untitled]
Usagi Yojimbo; Kozure Okami [Lone Wolf and Cub] spoof / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Characters
- Lone Goat and Kid [Yagi; Gorogoro]; Miyamoto Usagi
- Reprints
- from Usagi Yojimbo (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #24 (September 1990) [detail]
-
Indexer Notes
Illustration printed in black on a dark blue background.
Back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo Book Five
Usagi Yojimbo -
1.
Usagi Yojimbo Book Five
Usagi Yojimbo -
2.
Usagi Yojimbo Book Five
Usagi Yojimbo -
3.
To Hannah
Usagi Yojimbo -
4.
Contents
Usagi Yojimbo; Kozure Okami [Lone Wolf and Cub] spoof -
5.
Introduction
Usagi Yojimbo -
6.
Chapter One "Frost and Fire"
Usagi Yojimbo -
7.
Frost & Fire
Usagi Yojimbo -
8.
Chapter Two "A Kite Story"
Usagi Yojimbo -
9.
A Kite Story
Usagi Yojimbo -
10.
Chapter Three "Blood Wings"
Usagi Yojimbo -
11.
Blood Wings
Usagi Yojimbo -
12.
Blood Wings Part 2
Usagi Yojimbo -
13.
Chapter Four "The Way of the Samurai"
Usagi Yojimbo -
14.
The Way of the Samurai
Usagi Yojimbo -
15.
Chapter Five "Lone Goat and Kid"
Usagi Yojimbo; Kozure Okami [Lone Wolf and Cub] spoof -
16.
Lone Goat And Kid!
Usagi Yojimbo; Kozure Okami [Lone Wolf and Cub] spoof -
17.
[untitled]
Usagi Yojimbo; Kozure Okami [Lone Wolf and Cub] spoof
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