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Issue: Akira #1
Publication Date: January 1988
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Issues: #1 of 38 Issues (40 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Epic ComicsView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Epic Comics
On Sale Date: 05/12/1988
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $4.75 CAD
$3.50 USD
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Content Items: 3 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Series starts as a monthly, but the 38 issues end up taking over 7 years to come out, presumably at least partly because of the wait for the final volume's release.
On sale date from Amazing Heroes #139.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy
Binding: prestige format
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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Pages: 1
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The Highway

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Kaneda; Tetsuo Shima; Yamagata; Takashi; Kay; Ryu; Colonel Shikishima
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From Content Item: Flagアキラ [Akira] #1 [unnamed variant] published January 1984
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 62
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Akira & Otomo

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Text piece on the history of Akira, and some background on the American adaptation process. Mentions that the still-unfinished Japanese series will span 5 volumes and 1800 pages (it ends up at 6 volumes and 2200 pages).

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