Just a clown who collects comics!

My Comic Collection!

I don't care about American comics. Call me a weeb, but I just prefer Japanese art styles -- and there's no way in hell I'm gonna try and keep up with 60 years of a billion superheroes' storylines and all that. However, I love collecting manga and especially western reprints of manga from the turn of the millenium. Before the Japanese tankobon manga book format came to the States, American publishers like Dark Horse Comics and Viz Media would divide manga volumes into American magazine-style comic book format and publish them alongside their usual American comics.

Nowadays, people would probably scoff at these bygone relics of the Y2K era since westerners have easy access to tankobon volumes; these magazine-style printings aren't relevant anymore... but that's exactly why I love them! They're pieces of that bygone era that I think are being sadly overlooked in this time of Y2K nostalgia. It's just the print equivalent of that mediocre English anime dub you love, y'know? Plus some of these old comics have supplementary material like ads, interviews, promos, and possibly bespoke cover art that might not be a part of their original Japanese release!

So, here is where I'll be uploading scans of the covers of my comics, mainly magazine-format reprints; I'll be upfront, I haven't read the majority of these yet! I was too focused on saving them from my local rural comic shop before it succumbed to the Funko Cancer last year...

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All-New Tenchi Muyo!  by Hitoshi Okuda (Viz Comics)

Part 2, #2 (2002)

Animerica  Magazine (Viz Comics)

Vol. 6, #3
(1998)

Vol. 6, #4
(1998)

Vol. 6, #5
(1998)

Vol. 6, #6
(1998)

Vol. 6, #7
(1998)

Vol. 6, #9
(1998)

Vol. 6, #10
(1998)

Vol. 7, #7
(August 1999)

Vol. 10, #3
(March 2002)

Vol. 10, #5
(May 2002)

Vol. 10, #9
(September 2002)

Animerica Extra  Magazine (Viz Comics)
Anthology magazine that published chapters from Banana Fish (Akimi Yoshida), Chicago (Yumi Tamura), Fushigi Yuugi (Yuu Watase), Marionette Generation (Haruhiko Mikimoto), Revolutionary Girl Utena (Chiho Saito), Short Program (Mitsuru Adachi), Steam Detectives (Kia Asamiya), Video Girl Ai (Masakazu Katsura), X/1999 (CLAMP), Wild Com. (Yumi Tamura) SOS (Hinako Ashihara), Times Two (Shouko Akira).

Vol. 2, #1
(1998)

Vol. 2, #7
(1998)

Vol. 3, #1
(1999)

Vol. 3, #12
(2000)

Vol. 4, #1
(2000)

Vol. 4, #2
(2000)

Vol. 4, #3
(2001)

Vol. 4, #4
(2001)

Vol. 4, #5
(2001)

Vol. 4, #6
(2001)

Vol. 4, #7
(2001)

Vol. 4, #8
(2001)

Vol. 4, #9
(2001)

Vol. 4, #10
(2001)

Vol. 4, #11
(2001)

Vol. 4, #12
(2001)

Archie at Riverdale High  (Archie Enterprises)

#22 (February 1975)

Battle Angel Alita  by Yukito Kishiro (Viz Comics)

Part 8
"Hyper Future Vision" #3: "Alternatives"
(1997)

Part 8
"Master of Steel" #4: "Rage"
(1997)

BenZine  Magazine (Antarctic Press)
Comic anthology and opinion/industry news mag by creator Ben Dunn

#1 (October 2000)
Feat. chapters from "Asrial's Salusian Armored Corps" (Hiro-San, Holly Daughtrey), "Tiger-X" (Ben Dunn),
"Tomorrow Man" (Kevin Gunstone, Terry Pallot).

#2 (November 2000)
Feat. chapters from "Tiger-X" (Ben Dunn),
"Tomorrow Man" (Kevin Gunstone, Terry Pallot),
"The Lightning" (Herb Mallette, Ben Dunn, Robert DeJesus),
"Asrial's Salusian Armored Corps" (Hiro-San, Holly Daughtrey)

#3 (December 2000)
Feat. chapters from "Asrial's Salusian Armored Corps" (Hiro-San, Holly Daughtrey), "Combat Armor Tiger-X" (Ben Dunn)

#4 (January 2001)
Feat. chapters from "Robo-Gal vs. Ken-Terminator"(Ben Dunn), "Tiger-X" (Ben Dunn), "Broken Axis" (Ted Nomura, Ben Dunn).

#7 (Final issue) (April 2001)
Feat. chapters from "The Happyness Plan" (Jeremy Forrester),
"The Adventures of Swimmer" (Ben Dunn),
"The Redeemers" (Herb Mallette, Ben Dunn, Brian Denham).

Blade of the Immortal  by Hiroaki Samura (Dark Horse Comics)

#14 "Dreamsong, pt. 3"
(September 1997)

#15 "Dreamsong, pt. 4"
(October 1997)

#16 "Dreamsong, pt. 5"
(November 1997)

#25: "On Silent Wings, pt. 5"
(September 1998)

#27: "On Silent Wings, pt. 7"
(November 1998)

#28 "On Silent Wings, pt. 8"
(December 1998)

#29 "Dark Shadows, pt. 1"
(January 1999)

#30 "Dark Shadows, pt. 2"
(February 1999)

#31 "Dark Shadows, pt. 3"
(March 1999)

#33 "Dark Shadows, pt. 5"
(May 1999)

#40 "Heart of Darkness, pt. 6"
(December 1999)

#43 "The Gathering:
Mongrel"
(March 2000)

#47 "The Gathering:
Stigma, pt. 2"
(July 2000)

#48 "The Gathering:
Comrades, pt. 1"
(August 2000)

#49 "The Gathering:
Comrades, pt. 2"
(September 2000)

#50 "The Gathering:
Comrades, pt. 3"
(October 2000)

#51 "The Gathering:
Comrades, pt. 4"
(November 2000)

#59 "Secrets, pt. 2"
(August 2001)

Bubblegum Crisis: Grand Mal  by Adam Warren (Dark Horse Comics)
American miniseries based on the OVAs created by Toshimichi Suzuki

#1
(March 1994)

#4
(June 1994)

Buffalo Wings Archive  by John Nunnemacher (Antarctic Press)

#1
(September 1993)