(January 1988)

First, 1987 Series
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Price
2.50 USD; 3.50 CAD
Pages
76
Indicia Frequency
Monthly
On-sale Date
1987-12-31
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
First Comics Inc. and Studio Ship Inc.
Brand
First Publishing
ISBN
0-915419-18-1 Search at WorldCat
Editing
Rick Oliver (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date form Amazing Heroes #134. Release date January 1988 from listing within the regular feature "First Notes".

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Lone Wolf and Cub / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Frank Miller (signed)
Inks
Frank Miller (signed)
Colors
Lynn Varley (signed)
Genre
adventure; historical; martial arts
Reprints
Cover Thumbnail for Lone Wolf and Cub (First, 1987 series) #9
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

credits, title page / 2 pages (report information)

Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Title page and credits

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script
Frank Miller
Letters
typeset
Genre
non-fiction

Indexer Notes

Introduction

The Bell Keeper (Table of Contents: 3)

Lone Wolf and Cub / comic story / 64 pages (report information)

Script
小池 一夫 (Kazuo Koike); David Lewis (English adaptation); Alex Wald (English adaptation)
Pencils
小島剛夕 (Gōseki Kojima)
Inks
小島剛夕 (Gōseki Kojima)
Letters
Willie Schubert
Genre
adventure; historical; martial arts
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Originally chapter 20. Dark Horse version has one non-story art page after the title page, which First omitted.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset
Genre
non-fiction

Indexer Notes

Biographies of Koike and Kojima

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Lone Wolf and Cub / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Frank Miller
Inks
Frank Miller
Letters
typeset
Genre
historical; martial arts

Indexer Notes

Preview of next issue

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Marcus Hui, Kai Matsuda, Chris Hutts, Brian Paul Holiday.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Lone Wolf and Cub / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
?
Inks
?
Genre
adventure; historical; martial arts
Editing
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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Lone Wolf and Cub
  2. 1. [no title indexed]
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
  4. 3. The Bell Keeper
    Lone Wolf and Cub
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
  6. 5. [no title indexed]
    Lone Wolf and Cub
  7. 6. [no title indexed]
  8. 7. [no title indexed]
    Lone Wolf and Cub
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  • Chris Boyko
  • Steve Coates
  • Jochen G.
  • Richard Thomson
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