Lone Wolf and Cub Omnibus, Volume 8

by Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima (Illustrator)

Overview

Yagyu Retsudo's failure to stop Ōgami Ittō, has brought an ultimatum from the Shōogun: kill the Lone Wolf or face execution. But Yagyu will not go forth empty handed. To aid his cause, the Shogun places the Firewatchers—his own elite bodyguards—under Yagyu's command!

Created by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, Lone Wolf and Cub has sold over a million copies of its first Dark Horse English-language editions, and this acclaimed masterpiece of graphic fiction is now available in larger format, value-priced editions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781616555849
Publisher:	Dark Horse Comics
Publication date:	04/21/2015
Series:	Lone Wolf and Cub Omnibus , #8
Edition description:	Not Appropriate For Children
Pages:	672
Sales rank:	496,661
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.20(h) x 2.20(d)

About the Author

Kazuo Koike is a prolific Japanese manga writer, novelist and entrepreneur. Early in Koike's career, he studied under Golgo 13 creator Takao Saito and served as a writer on the series. Koike, along with artist Goseki Kojima, made the manga, Lone Wolf and Cub, and Koike also contributed to the scripts for the 1970s film adaptations of the series, which starred famous Japanese actor Tomisaburo Wakayama. Koike and Kojima became known as the "Golden Duo" because of the success of Lone Wolf and Cub. Another series written by Koike, Crying Freeman, which was illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami, was adapted into a 1995 live-action film by French director Christophe Gans. The author lives in Tokyo, Japan.