Usagi Yojimbo (1996 3rd Series Dark Horse) comic books 1999
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Issue #26
Published Jan 1999 by Dark Horse.$6.00
$6.00
The Hairpin Murders: Part 1 of 2 - Story and art by Stan Sakai. It's a whodunit feudal style as Usagi is caught up in a mystery when he befriends a police inspector investigating the murders of prominent merchants. The clues lead into their past and to a broken trust. Can Usagi and the detective discover the idenity of the next victim before it's too late? Will justice prevail? 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.
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Issue #27
Published Feb 1999 by Dark Horse.$8.00
$6.00
$6.00
The Hairpin Murders: Part 2 of 2 - Story and art by Stan Sakai. A woman has been murdered. Her killing seems unrelated to the series that Usagi and Inspector Ishida are investigating. A look into her past, however, connects her to the three previous victims, but the evidence points to her as the killer! When higher-level bureaucrats and officials stonewall the investigation, though, questions and suspicions are raised. It's a murder mystery feudal style, in part two of "The Hairpin Murders," as Usagi untangles a hair-raising web of betrayal and deceit that spans a decade. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.
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Issue #28
Published Apr 1999 by Dark Horse.$7.49
$7.00
$6.00
Story and art by Stan Sakai. Usagi comes to the rescue of a girl attacked by masked bandits. She turns out to be the maid of the area's most renowned courtesan, recently back from seclusion. It comes to light that the assault was not a random attack, but the tip of a conspiracy. Usagi is soon embroiled in a plot involving the province's nobles and the successor to a lord's throne. Part one of a two-part story. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.
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Issue #29
Published May 1999 by Dark Horse.$6.49
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Story and art by Stan Sakai. The conspiracy gets deadlier as the courtesan, Lady Maple, is abducted! The only way Usagi can save her is by handing a child over to the kidnappers. Usagi has no choice but to comply and finds himself caught in a trap in which death is the sole escape. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.
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Issue #30
Published Jul 1999 by Dark Horse.$7.00
$6.49
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Story and art by Stan Sakai. In response to popular demand, multiple Eisner Award winner Stan Sakai presents Usagi in another "Inspector Ishida mystery"! In this issue, Ishida teams up with the rabbit ronin to investigate the disappearance of men from the lower levels of society. The inquiry leads them to a grisly, black market for fresh corpses used in a ritual hundreds of years old. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.
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Issue #31
Published Sep 1999 by Dark Horse.$8.00
$7.49
$6.00
Story and art by Stan Sakai. "The Haunted Inn of Moon Shadow Hill" finds Usagi once again on the road when he seeks shelter for the night in an inn, the only haven in an area reputed to be haunted. He reluctantly accepts a wager to enter the local graveyard and comes face-to-face with more haunts than you can shake a (chop)stick at. This is an outrageous story full of many of the strange, and often wacky, monsters of Japanese folklore, drawn in Stan Sakai's charming and inimitable style. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.
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Issue #32
Published Oct 1999 by Dark Horse.$7.00
$6.49
$6.49
Story and art by Stan Sakai. This issue features two stories: in the first, Usagi meets a young boy determined to live a life of adventure. The boy follows the long-eared ronin hoping to learn swordsmanship. When Usagi refuses to teach him, he arranges his own demonstration. In this issue's second story, more treachery surfaces in the ranks of the Neko Ninja Clan when two lovers break the ninja code by escaping the clan. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.
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Issue #33
Published Nov 1999 by Dark Horse.$8.00
$6.00
$6.00
Story and art by Stan Sakai. In "The Potter" we meet a potter at odds to make ends meet until a thief breaks into his home and hides a priceless jewel. Meanwhile, Katsuichi receives a message from his former student, Usagi, and he and his current students hurriedly prepare to keep an appointment with death. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.
