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Issue: Shigeru Mizuki's Kitaro #[1]
Publication Date: May 2016
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Issues: #[1] of 7 Issues
Title: The Birth of Kitaro
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDrawn & Quarterly
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Indicia Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
On Sale Date: 05/31/2016
Volume:
Pages: 206
ISBN: 9781770462281
UPC/EAN:
Price: $14.95 CAD
$12.95 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: colour covers; black and white interior
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Binding: paperback
Publishing Format: limited series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Kitaro
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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History of Kitaro Part 1

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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The Birth of Kitaro

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Mizuki; Kitaro
Synopsis: Mizuki discovers his neighbors are yokai, the last living members of the ghost tribe.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 45
Disclose Notes: Page count includes a full page splash of Kitaro's father which might or might not be in the original (may be from a different source).
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Nezumi Otoko versus Neko Musume

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Kitaro
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Shonen Special Edition (Kodansha? ? series) September 1, 1967
Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
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Nopperabo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Kitaro
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from ?
Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: This reprint needs to be confirmed. It's listed in the book at from Shonen Weekly May 5, 1968 but according to media-arts.db, the Kitaro story in that issue is 21 pages and titled 人食い島 [Hitokuijima] (https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/M537591). A scan of the first page of the story on a Japanese auction site confirms the title from media-arts.
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Gyuki

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Kitaro
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 29
Disclose Notes: Book says it was reprinted from Shonen Weekly December 15, 1968, but that was only the first part (15 pages). Second part of story appeared in the next issue (also 15 pages). Presumably the splash page of the second part has been omitted.
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Yokai of the Mountain Pass

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Kitaro
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
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Makura Gaeshi

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Kitaro
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: Book says it was reprinted from Shonen Weekly January 14, 1968 which was a double dated issue that we have listed as January 7, 1968.
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Hideri Gami

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Kitaro
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 29
Disclose Notes: Book says it was reprinted from Shonen Weekly May 26, 1968, but that was only the first part (15 pages). Second part of story appeared in the next issue (also 15 pages). Presumably the splash page of the second part has been omitted.
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Yokai Files

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Catalogue of yokai.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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Yokai Knowledge Challenge

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Puzzles and mazes based on the Kitaro comics.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
First Line: Shigeru Mizuki (1922-2015) was one of Japan's...
Synopsis: Short bio of Mizuki.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.

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