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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.

Click on a thumbnail to see the full image!


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

Part 2, #2
(2002)

Animerica  Magazine (Viz Comics)

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)

Vol. 2, #1
(1998)

Vol. 2, #7
(1999)

Vol. 4, #7
(June 2001)

Vol. 4, #5
(April 2001)

Vol. 4, #8
(July 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)

#2
(November 2000)

#3
(December 2000)

#4
(January 2001)

#7 (Final issue)
(April 2001)

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)

Cardcaptor Sakura
by CLAMP (Tokyopop)

#19
(2001)

#20
(2001)

#22
(2001)

#23
(2001)

Dragon Wars
by Ryukihei (Jōji Manabe) (Ironcat, LLC.)

Vol. 1, #2
(May 1998)

DuckTales
by Bob Langhans, Cosme Quartieri, Robert Bat, Carlos Valenti (Walt Disney Publications)

#9:
"The Gold Odyssey, Chapter One:
Terror at the Top of the World"
(February 1991)

Eat-Man  by Akihito Yoshitomi (Viz Comics)

#1: "Apertif"
(1997)

#2: "Appetizer, pt. 1"
(1997)

#3: "Appetizer, pt. 2"
(1997)

#4: "Wedding Banquet"
(1997)

#6: "No Picnic, pt. 2"
(1998)

Second Course #1: "Food for Dog"
(1998)

Second Course #4: "Reluctant Guest"
(1998)

El-Hazard: The Magnificent World
by Hidetomo Tsubura (Viz Comics)

#1
(1996)

Furrlough  (Radio Comix)

#60
(December 1997)

Geobreeders  by Akihiro Ito (CPM Manga)

#3
(May 1999)

#4
(May 1999)

Gunsmith Cats  by Kenichi Sonoda

"Goldie vs. Misty" #5:
"...Minnie-May"
(March 1998)

"Bad Trip" #6:
"Cool Down"
(November 1998)

"Kidnapped" #8:
"9mm vs. 40mm"
(June 2000)

"Mister V" #5:
"Daddy's 12-Gauge"
(February 2001)

"Mister V" #7:
"Guns n' Doses"
(April 2001)

"Mister V" #8:
"Misty's Run" pt. 1
(May 2001)

"So We Meet Again" One-Shot
(November 2001)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by John Carnell, Steve Leialoha (DC Comics)

#2 of 3
(1993)

Mai, the Psychic Girl
by Kazuya Kudo, Ryoichi Ikegami (Viz Comics)

Pt. 13 "Chosen by the Gods",
Pt. 14 "E.S.P."
(September 1987)

Pt. 15 "Hatred is Forbidden",
Pt. 16 "All Points Bulletin"
(September 1987)

Pt. 23 "Another Psychic Girl",
Pt. 24 "Garten and Mai"
(November 1987)

Mermaid's Dream
by Rumiko Takahashi (Viz Comics)

#2
(1995)

Mobile Police Patlabor
by Masami Yuki (Viz Comics)

Pt. 2, #5
(1998)

Ninja High School
by Ben Dunn (Antarctic Press)

Version 2, #9
(March 2000)

 Oh My Goddess!
by Kosuke Fujishima (Dark Horse Comics)

#92: "Traveler" pt. 2:
"Wide, Wider, Widest!"
(November 2002)

#93: "Traveler" pt. 3:
"As Long as You're With Me"
(December 2002)

#95: "Traveler" pt. 5:
"Missing Time"
(February 2003)

Part 6 #6:
"Super-Urd" One-Shot
(April 1999)

Part 11 #8, "The Mystery Child"
pt. 6: "The Trouble with Doubles"
(March 2002)

#89: "Learning to Love" pt. 2:
"Getting to Know You"
(August 2002)

Part 6 #5:
"The Devil in Miss Urd"
pt. 5: "Shadow & Light"
(March 1999)

Part 7, #5: "The Fourth Goddess"
pt. 7:"The Dating Game"
(September 1999)

Part 7, #7: "The Fourth Goddess"
pt. 7: "A Goddess Never Forgets"
(November 1999)

Part 7, #8: "The Fourth Goddess"
pt. 8: "Men Are From Earth, Goddesses Are From Yggdrasil"
(December 1999)

Pulp: Manga for Grownups  (Viz Comics)

Vol. 2, #6
(June 1998)

Vol. 2, #9
(September 1998)

Ranma 1/2  by Rumiko Takahashi (Viz Comics)

Part 1, #2
"A Bad Cut"/
"Who Says You're Cute?"
(1992)

Part 1, #6
"Bread Feud"/"Showdown!"
(1992)

Part 3, #8
"Care to Join Me?"/"Training Meals"
(1994)

Part 4, #5
"No Need for Ranma"/
"The Destroyer Strikes"
(1995)

Part 5, #4
"At Long Last... the Date!"/
"Happosai Days Are Here Again"
(1996)

Part 6, #11
"Training in the Spiral of Hell"/
"The Inflammable Man"
(1997)

Part 8, #10
"S.W.A.T (Save Widdle Akane Team)"/
"The Watery Grave"
(1999)

Riot  by Satoshi Shiki (Viz Comics)

Act 1 #6
(1996)

Act 2 #4:
"Frenzy"
(1996)

Act 2 #7:
"Intimacies"
(1996)

Silent Möbius by Kiya Asamiya (Viz Comics)

Part 2, #2:
"Ch. 5: Katsumi Liquer"
(1992)

Strangers in Paradise
by Terry Moore (Abstract Studio)

Vol. 3, #78
(November 2005)

Vol. 3, #84
(September 2006)

Super Manga Blast!
Magazine (Dark Horse Comics)

#21
(April 2002)

Tenchi Muyo!
by Jose Calderon and Matt Lunsford (P-Anime Comics)
American adaptation based on the Tenchi Muyo OVAs.

"Ryo-Ohki's Day" #2: "Criminal Minds" (March 1997)

Usagi Yojimbo  by Stan Sakai (IDW Comics)

#241: "Bunraku" pt. 3 (August 2019)

Vampire Miyu
by Narumi Kakinōchi (Antarctic Press)

#3: "Remlas the Shinma"
(December 1995)