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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published March 2007
Cover Price 2.99 USD; 3.55 CAD
Pages 32
Editing Phil Smith (Managing Editor)

Cover Details - "Cover A"

Characters Witchblade Manga
Genre Occult; Super-hero
Pencils Kazasa Sumita
Inks Kazasa Sumita
Colors Kevin Senft [as Blond]
Letters None; typeset

Cover Details - "Cover B"

Genre Occult; Superhero
Pencils Gonzo Animation
Inks Gonzo Animation
Colors Gonzo Animation
Editing Phil Smith (Managing Editor)

1 page credits "Title page"

Pencils Chaz Riggs (design)
Colors Kevin Senft [as Blond]
Letters typeset
Notes Creator credits and indicia information. Features the Witchblade Manga logo top of page and the Witchblade Takeru Managa masthead logo at bottom of page against an interwoven backdrop pattern.

25 page Witchblade Takeru story "Chapter 2: Prelude to a Legend"

Characters Witchblade [Takeru]; Kou; [Kou's father]; Granny
Genre Occult; Superhero
Script Yasuko Kobayashi; Shoko Oono (Translator); Brian Buccellato (English Adaptation)
Pencils Kazasa Sumita
Inks Kazasa Sumita
Colors Kevin Senft [as Blond]
Letters Troy Peteri
Notes Top Cow worked with Studio Gonzo, Akita Shoten and Kazasa Sumita to bring this new, colorized version that reads left to right for the standard American comic size.
Reprinted Originally published by Akita Shoten as "Witchblade Takeru" in Japan's popular magazine Champion Red.

3 page Rogue Gallery advertisement "Space Is Infinite. It's Treasures Aren't."

Notes Three page advertisement promoting the game from Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "World Moos"

Characters Madame Mirage; Witchblade; Punisher; The Darkness
Synopsis The Top Cow World Moos takes on the format of a Bullpen Page of news and releases.
Genre Fact; News
Script Ron Marz; ?
Pencils Kenneth Rocafort; Joseph Michael Linsner (in house ad); Patrick Blaine (in house ad); Will Conrad (in house ad)
Inks Kenneth Rocafort; Joseph Michael Linsner (in house ad); Patrick Blaine (in house ad); Will Conrad (in house ad)
Colors Imaginary Friends Studios; Kenneth Rocafort; Kevin Senft [as Blond] ; various in house ads
Letters typeset
Notes Features: MADAM MIRAGE: FIRST LOOK; Next Issue: WITCHBLADE MANGA #3; From the Desk Of Ron Marz; On Sale in March: WITCHBLADE/THE PUNISHER; THE DARKNESS: LEVEL 4; FRESHMEN II #4. Top Cow staff credits and indicia information.

1 page God of War (backcovers) *do not use* / *please fix* "Advertisement"

Notes Full page advertisement for the game by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.