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Dark Horse Comics has released a new batch of pages from Mike Richardson and Stan Sakai's 47 Ronin #1, the first installment of the team's comic book adaptation of the historical Japanese story that follows a group of former samurai as they carry out revenge against an Edo official responsible for the suicide of their lord and, in turn, commit seppuku themselves...

A true-life tale of revenge from the 18th century that has been called "Japan's national legend" and been turned into opera, television, movies and woodblock prints for more than two hundred years is coming to comics, courtesy of Dark Horse Comics...

Ever heard of Manga Hulk? Long before they got around to manga-fying the X-Men, Marvel decided to give Japanese creators a chance to reinvent popular superhero characters, including Manga Hulk ("Haruku"), back in 1970. They chose Kazuo Koike -- the legendary creator of "Lone Wolf and Cub" -- as the writer, with Yoshihiro Morifuji on art...