Lone Wolf and Cub Deluxe Edition Volume 1

Illustrated by Goseki Kojima
Translated by Dana Lewis
$54.99 US
Dark Horse Comics | Dark Horse Manga
12 per carton
On sale Dec 09, 2025 | 9781506747613
Sales rights: World

The acclaimed genre-defining samurai epic manga by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima is presented in a new deluxe oversized hardcover edition and is now oriented in right-to-left reading format as originally published in Japan!

The groundbreaking samurai masterpiece of beauty, fury, and power!


Ogami Itto, once the shogun’s executioner, has fallen from grace after false accusations by a rival clan. With his wife murdered and with his three-year-old son to protect, he chooses the path of the ronin, the masterless samurai. Together, the lone wolf and his cub wander feudal Japan, but all roads will lead them to a single destination—vengeance.  

The Deluxe Edition features:
  • New cover with grain texture, burnishing, and foil stamping
  • Oversized 7" x 10" format
  • Ribbon bookmark

Collects Lone Wolf and Cub volumes 1, 2, and stories from volume 3.
Praise for Lone Wolf and Cub:

"A classic in every sense of the word. Strongly recommended for fans of historical epics and essential for all graphic novel collections."—Library Journal

"The storytelling is patient and kind. Pages of beautiful artwork and zero dialogue. People walking through the landscape, looking into the sun. It makes the world feel that much more real and the tension that much more profound."—Fanbase Press

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The acclaimed genre-defining samurai epic manga by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima is presented in a new deluxe oversized hardcover edition and is now oriented in right-to-left reading format as originally published in Japan!

The groundbreaking samurai masterpiece of beauty, fury, and power!


Ogami Itto, once the shogun’s executioner, has fallen from grace after false accusations by a rival clan. With his wife murdered and with his three-year-old son to protect, he chooses the path of the ronin, the masterless samurai. Together, the lone wolf and his cub wander feudal Japan, but all roads will lead them to a single destination—vengeance.  

The Deluxe Edition features:
  • New cover with grain texture, burnishing, and foil stamping
  • Oversized 7" x 10" format
  • Ribbon bookmark

Collects Lone Wolf and Cub volumes 1, 2, and stories from volume 3.

Praise

Praise for Lone Wolf and Cub:

"A classic in every sense of the word. Strongly recommended for fans of historical epics and essential for all graphic novel collections."—Library Journal

"The storytelling is patient and kind. Pages of beautiful artwork and zero dialogue. People walking through the landscape, looking into the sun. It makes the world feel that much more real and the tension that much more profound."—Fanbase Press