Usagi Yojimbo Book 7 [Gen's Story]

Sakai, Stan

Publication: Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books, 1996. First Edition.

Notes: The seventh installment in the one of the most successful "funny animal" comic books series, now in its fifth decade. This is one of 500 numbered hardcover copies signed on a bookplate on the front pastedown (the typical Fantagraphics limited edition format). Title on the spine: "Gen's Story."

Collects issue nos. 32 to 38 as well as a short story from Critters #38. Foreword (with illustration) by legendary cartoonist Sergio Aragones (Mad Magazine, Groo the Wanderer).

The volume collects UY nos. 19 to 24 plus a 14-page black-and-white comic, "How I Do Usagi Yojimbo" which is exclusive to this hardcover edition.

200 pages.

Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Copy 43 of 500, signed by Sakai on a bookplate with a small sketch.

This copy comes from the collection of cartoonist Bob Foster, who drew The History of Moosekind for Marvel's Crazy in the 1970s and later worked for Hanna-Barbera and Disney Publications, among other animation and cartooning jobs. Sakai inscribed this copy "To Bob—Best Always Stan Sakai [small rabbit sketch]. He also added a nice drawing of the title character and his small dinosaur-shaped pet, Spot.

Item No: #5001

Price: $250