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Overview: Lone Wolf and Cub – the First eleven issues

Lone Wolf and Cub, or Kozure Okami in Japanese, is one of the big success stories of manga. I intend to try to explain why I think this is one of the finest few comic series I’ve ever seen.

Samurai Executioner

by Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima ;

Martin Skidmore — 19-Mar-11

This entry is part 8 of 9 in the series Magnificent Manga

I think it’s worth discussing, if only because there seems to be an assumption that Koike & Kojima’s other works are inevitably inferior to their most famous epic, and I honestly think there is far less to choose between them than is generally thought.