Akira #1
(1988)

Marvel, 1988 Series
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Volume
1
Price
3.50 USD; 4.75 CAD
Pages
68
Indicia Frequency
Monthly
On-sale Date
1988-05-12
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Epic Comics
Brand
Epic Comics
Editing
Archie Goodwin (editor)

Issue Notes

Series starts as a monthly, but the 38 issues end up taking over 7 years to come out, presumably at least partly because of the wait for the final volume's release.
On sale date from Amazing Heroes #139.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Akira / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
大友克洋 (Katsuhiro Otomo)
Inks
大友克洋 (Katsuhiro Otomo)
Colors
Steve Oliff

Genre
science fiction
Reprints

The Highway (Table of Contents: 1)

Akira / comic story / 62 pages (report information)

Script
大友克洋 (Katsuhiro Otomo); Yoko Umezawa (translation); Jo Duffy (English adaptation); Linda M. York (translation)
Pencils
大友克洋 (Katsuhiro Otomo)
Inks
大友克洋 (Katsuhiro Otomo)
Colors
Steve Oliff (9-62)
Letters
Michael Higgins

Genre
science fiction
Characters
Kaneda; Tetsuo Shima; Yamagata; Takashi; Kay; Ryu; Colonel Shikishima
Reprints
Keywords
manga

Akira & Otomo (Table of Contents: 2)

Akira / text article / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Archie Goodwin
Letters
typeset

Genre
non-fiction; science fiction

Indexer Notes

Text piece on the history of Akira, and some background on the American adaptation process. Mentions that the still-unfinished Japanese series will span 5 volumes and 1800 pages (it ends up at 6 volumes and 2200 pages).

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Akira
  2. 1. The Highway
    Akira
  3. 2. Akira & Otomo
    Akira
This issue was modified by, among others
  • mcomics
  • David B
  • Peter Croome
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Mark Q
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Steven Samuels
  • Jim Van Dore