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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 -- and getting them bagged up (that's why you'll see tape on the back covers, btw - they're not ripped, just bagged. Except for the one issue of Gunsmith Cats that is actually ripped... that one hurts.)

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Cardcaptor Sakura  by CLAMP (Tokyopop)

#19
(2001)

#20
(2001)

#22
(2001)

#23
(2001)

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)

Gunsmith Cats  by Kenichi Sonoda (Dark Horse Comics)

"The Return of Gray"
#1: "Magnum Primer"
(August 1996)

"Shades of Gray"
#1: "Hammerless"
(May 1997)

"Shades of Gray"
#3: "SIG-SG550"
(July 1997)

"Shades of Gray"
#5: "Slide Stop"
(September 1997)

"Goldie vs. Misty"
#1: "...Misty Brown"
(November 1997)

"Goldie vs. Misty"
#2: "...Decoy"
(December 1997)

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

"Goldie vs. Misty"
#7: "...Bad Trip"
(May 1998)

"Kidnapped"
#2: "Mr. Smart"
(December 1999)

"Kidnapped"
#3: "Long Night"
(May 1998)

"Kidnapped"
#6: "Jeena"
(April 2000)

"Kidnapped"
#7: "Bloody Rally"
(May 2000)

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

"Kidnapped"
#9: "Family"
(July 2000)

"Kidnapped"
#10: "Home Sweet Home"
(August 2000)

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

"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)

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

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)

Geobreeders  by Akihiro Ito (CPM Manga)

#3
(May 1999)

#4
(May 1999)

Battle Angel Alita  by Yukito Kishiro (Viz Comics)

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

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

Strangers in Paradise  by Terry Moore (Abstract Studio)

Vol. 3, #78
(November 2005)

Vol. 3, #84
(September 2006)

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)

Pulp: Manga for Grownups  (Viz Comics)

Vol. 2, #6
(June 1998)

Vol. 2, #9
(September 1998)

Super Manga Blast!  Magazine (Dark Horse Comics)

#21
(April 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  (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)

Riot  by Satoshi Shiki (Viz Comics)

Act 1 #6
(1996)

Act 2 #4:
"Frenzy"
(1996)

Act 2 #7:
"Intimacies"
(1996)

Animerica Extra  (Viz Comics)

"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)

Silent Möbius by Kiya Asamiya (Viz Comics)

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

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)

Mobile Police Patlabor  by Masami Yuki (Viz Comics)

Part 1, #1
(1997)

Part 2, #5
(1998)

Ninja High School  by Ben Dunn (Antarctic Press)

Version 2, #9
(March 2000)

Mermaid's Dream  by Rumiko Takahashi (Viz Comics)

#2
(1995)

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

#2 of 3
(1993)

Buffalo Wings Archive  by John Nunnemacher (Antarctic Press)

#1
(September 1993)

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)

Archie at Riverdale High  (Archie Enterprises)

#22
(February 1975)

Furrlough  (Radio Comix)

#60
(December 1997)

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

#1
(1996)

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

Part 2, #2
(2002)