Usagi Yojimbo
#2
[Fourth Printing]
(July 1999)
Fantagraphics,
1987 Series
- Volume
- 2
- Price
- 15.95 USD; 22.95 CAD
- Pages
- 148
- On-sale Date
- 1999-07-21
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fantagraphics Books
- Brand
-
Fantagraphics Books [serif, double border]
- ISBN
-
1-56097-009-X
- Barcode
- 9781560970095 51595
- Printer
- Printed in the USA
- Editing
- Kim Thompson (credited)
Issue Notes
first edition, April 1989
second edition, February 1992
third edition, November 1995
fourth edition, July 1999 (15.95 USD; 22.95 CAD) (used for this index)
fifth edition, July 2002
seventh (?) edition, 2015
This issue is a variant of Usagi Yojimbo (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #2 [First Printing]. There exist further variants:
second edition, February 1992
third edition, November 1995
fourth edition, July 1999 (15.95 USD; 22.95 CAD) (used for this index)
fifth edition, July 2002
seventh (?) edition, 2015
This issue is a variant of Usagi Yojimbo (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #2 [First Printing]. There exist further variants:
![Cover Thumbnail for Usagi Yojimbo (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #2 [Fourth Printing]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1371/w200/1371789.jpg?-8343768662434625813)
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Usagi Yojimbo Book Two
credits, title page / 3 pages
- Characters
- Miyamoto Usagi
Indexer Notes
title and publisher page with an illustration; dedication, production, copyright and publication credits page; table of contents page with the final panel from the "Samurai part VI" story.
"Samurai"
credits, title page / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Includes a panel from page three of the "Samurai part II" story
Samurai! Part I
Usagi Yojimbo / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Characters
- Gen; Katsuichi; Miyamoto Usagi; Gunichi; Usagi's Father; Kenichi
- Reprints
-
from Usagi Yojimbo (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #1 (July 1987)
-
Samurai! Part II
Usagi Yojimbo / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Characters
- Gen; Katsuichi; Miyamoto Usagi; Gunichi
- Reprints
- from Usagi Yojimbo (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #1 (July 1987)
-
[Samurai! Part III]
Usagi Yojimbo / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Characters
- Gen; Katsuichi; Miyamoto Usagi; The Boss
- Reprints
- from Usagi Yojimbo (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #6 (February 1988)
-
in Usagi Yojimbo (Carlsen Comics [DE], 1996 series) #3 - Der Samurai (September 1996) - in Usagi Yojimbo: The Special Edition (Fantagraphics, 2015 series) #1
- in Usagi Yojimbo Color Classics (IDW, 2020 series) #2 (February 2020) which is reprinted
- in Usagi Yojimbo: Origins (IDW, 2021 series) #1 - Samurai (December 2020)
-
Indexer Notes
Originally titled "The Test." To add to the confusion, the story logo on the second page still states "Part II."
Samurai! Part IV
Usagi Yojimbo / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Characters
- Gen; Katsuichi; Miyamoto Usagi; Instructor Jembei; Genjiro; Higashimori; Lord Mifune; Kenichi
- Reprints
- from Usagi Yojimbo (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #2 (September 1987)
- in Usagi Yojimbo (Carlsen Comics [DE], 1996 series) #3 - Der Samurai (September 1996)
-
Indexer Notes
Originally titled "Samurai! Part III."
Samurai! Part V
Usagi Yojimbo / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Characters
- Gen; Miyamoto Usagi; Gunichi
- Reprints
- from Usagi Yojimbo (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #2 (September 1987)
- in Usagi Yojimbo (Carlsen Comics [DE], 1996 series) #3 - Der Samurai (September 1996)
-
Indexer Notes
Originally titled "Samurai! Part IV."
Samurai! Part VI
Usagi Yojimbo / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Characters
- Gen; Miyamoto Usagi; Innkeeper; Innkeeper (flashback sequence); Kenichi
- Reprints
- from Usagi Yojimbo (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #3 (October 1987)
- in Usagi Yojimbo (Carlsen Comics [DE], 1996 series) #3 - Der Samurai (September 1996)
-
Indexer Notes
Originally titled "Samurai! Part V."
Samurai! Part VII
Usagi Yojimbo / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Characters
- Gen; Miyamoto Usagi; Magistrate [Usagi's Father]; Mariko; Kenichi
- Reprints
- from Usagi Yojimbo (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #3 (October 1987)
- in Usagi Yojimbo (Carlsen Comics [DE], 1996 series) #3 - Der Samurai (September 1996)
-
Indexer Notes
Originally titled "Samurai! Part VI."
Samurai! Part VIII
Usagi Yojimbo / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Characters
- Gen; Miyamoto Usagi; Lord Mifune; Lady Kazumi; Tsuruichi; Tomi; Gunichi
- Reprints
- from Usagi Yojimbo (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #4 (November 1987)
- in Usagi Yojimbo (Carlsen Comics [DE], 1996 series) #3 - Der Samurai (September 1996)
-
Indexer Notes
Originally titled "Samurai! Part VII."
Samurai! Part IX
Usagi Yojimbo / comic story / 13 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Characters
- Gen; Miyamoto Usagi; Lord Mifune; Gunichi
- Reprints
- from Usagi Yojimbo (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #4 (November 1987)
- in Usagi Yojimbo (Carlsen Comics [DE], 1996 series) #3 - Der Samurai (September 1996)
-
Indexer Notes
Originally titled "Samurai! Part VIII."
Kappa
Usagi Yojimbo / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Characters
- Miyamoto Usagi; Kappa; Grandmother; Samurai
- Reprints
- from Usagi Yojimbo (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #6 (February 1988)
-
Zylla
Usagi Yojimbo / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Characters
- Miyamoto Usagi; Woodcutter; Woodcutter's Wife; Innkeeper; Zylla; Tojiro
- Reprints
- from Usagi Yojimbo (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #6 (February 1988)
-
Silk Fair
credits, title page / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Includes a panel from page eighteen of the story
Silk Fair
Usagi Yojimbo / comic story / 20 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts; adventure; historical
- Characters
- Miyamoto Usagi; Jiro; Mr. Kaiko; Matsutaro; Jiro's Wife; Genta; Waiter
- Reprints
- from Usagi Yojimbo (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #5 (January 1988)
-
[no title indexed]
Usagi Yojimbo / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Stan Sakai
- Inks
- Stan Sakai
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The first volume of Usagi Yojimbo introduced the sword-wielding rabbit just after the slaughter of Adachigahara Plain....
- Genre
- adventure; anthropomorphic-funny animals; historical
- Characters
- Katsuichi; Miyamoto Usagi
Indexer Notes
back cover with promo quotes from Mark Evanier and Stan Lee. Includes a single illustration
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
1.
Usagi Yojimbo Book Two
-
2.
Usagi Yojimbo Book Two
-
3.
Foreword
-
4.
"Samurai"
-
5.
Samurai! Part I
Usagi Yojimbo -
6.
Samurai! Part II
Usagi Yojimbo -
7.
[Samurai! Part III]
Usagi Yojimbo -
8.
Samurai! Part IV
Usagi Yojimbo -
9.
Samurai! Part V
Usagi Yojimbo -
10.
Samurai! Part VI
Usagi Yojimbo -
11.
Samurai! Part VII
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12.
Samurai! Part VIII
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13.
Samurai! Part IX
Usagi Yojimbo -
14.
Kappa
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15.
Kappa
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16.
Zylla
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17.
Zylla
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18.
Silk Fair
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19.
Silk Fair
Usagi Yojimbo -
20.
The Usagi Library
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21.
["The first volume of Usagi Yojimbo introduced the sword-wielding rabbit just after the slaughter of Adachigahara Plain...."]
Usagi Yojimbo
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- Andrew S. Troth
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