Comic books in 'Cat', graded by CGC

Cover by Bill Holman. Edited by Oskar Lebeck. Stories by Chester Gould, Ed Leffingwell, Bill Holman, Harold Gray, Frank King, Milton Caniff, Frank Willard, Martin Branner, Gus Edson, Walter Berndt, Carl Ed, Loy Byrnes, Stanley Link, and Zack Mosley. Strips include Little Joe, Smokey Stover, Little Orphan Annie, Manuk the Arctic Crusoe, Frank King, Terry and the Pirates, Moon Mullins, Smitty, Winnie Winkle, Harold Teen, Streaky, Tiny Tim, and Smilin' Jack. Dick Tracy text story. Smilin' Jack text story. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Bill Holman. Edited by Oskar Lebeck. Stories by Chester Gould, Bill Holman, Harold Gray, Al Posen, Terry and the Pirates, Capt'n Roger the Rodent, Gasoline Alley, Little Joe, Zack Mosley, Martin Branner, Gus Edson, Lou Byrnes, Frank Willard, Walter Berndt, Stanley Link. Strips include Dick Tracy, Capt'n Roger the Rodent, Smokey Stover, Little Orphan Annie, Sweeney & Son, Terry and the Pirates, Gasoline Alley, Little Joe, Winnie Winkle, The Gumps, Streaky, Moon Mullins, Tim Todd the Boy Adventurer, Smitty, and Harold Teen. Little Orphan Annie text story. Terry and the Pirates text story. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Edited by Oskar Lebeck. Stories by Chester Gould, Bill Holman, Milton Caniff Frank King Leffingwell, Zack Mosley,Martin Branner, Loy Byrnes, Frank Willard, Walter Berndt, Carl Ed, and Stanley Link. Strips include Dick Tracy, Little Orphan Annie, Terry and the Pirates, Gasoline Alley, Little Joe, Smilin' Jack, Winnie Winkle, Streaky, Moon Mullins, Smitty, Harold Teen, and Tiny Tim. Little Orphan Annie text story. Terry and the Pirates text story. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Comic strip reprints: Zipper, Smokey Stover, Sweeney & Son, Dick Tracy, Tiny Tim, The Crusoes, Little Joe, Smilin' Jack, Winnie Winkle, Streaky, Little Orphan Annie, the Gumps, Bobby and Chip, Harold Teen, Moon Mullins, and Gasoline Alley. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Magic Morro 1st appearance and origin. Edited by Bill Holman. Cover by Bill Holman. Stories by Chester Gould, Stanley Link, Zack Mosley, Erwin L. Hess, Martin Branner, Frank Willard, Milton Caniff, Walter Berndt, Harold Gray, Ed Moore, Ken Ernst, Carl Ed, Harold Teen, and Ed Leffingwell. Strips include Dick Tracy, Tiny Tim, Smilin' Jack, The Thief of Bagdad, Winnie Winkle, Moon Mullins, Terry and the Pirates, Smitty, Little Orphan Annie, Jack Wander War Correspondent, Magic Morro, and Little Joe. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover pencils by Phil Mendez. We Want Action! starring The Three Mousketeers. Untitled Three Mousketeers story starring Patsy and Herman Hop-Toad. Why Minus Can't Miss starring The Three Mousketeers. Working on the Railroad starring The Three Mousketeers, script and pencils by Sheldon Mayer. Untitled Doodles Duck story, script and pencils by Sheldon Mayer. The Adventure of the Disappearing Cave! starring The Three Mousketeers, script and pencils by Sheldon Mayer. Patsy and the Pup starring The Three Mouseketeers, script and pencils by Sheldon Mayer. Meet Cousin Rodney Rat! starring The Three Mousketeers, script and pencils by Sheldon Mayer. Untitled Bo Bunny story by Mayer. Make Mine Monotony! starring The Three Mousketeers. Untitled Dizzy Dog story by Mayer. 68 pgs. $0.25. Cover price $0.25.

Written by Sholly Fisch Art by Scott Shaw! & Terry Beatty Cover by J. Bone When the alien Kanjar Ro invades Earth, he freezes all humans so that they won't mess with him - including the Super Friends! What he doesn't know is that he's about to face resistance from their super best friends - the Super Pets! 32 pg, FC. Cover price $2.50.

By KOSUKE FUJISHIMA, MOHIRO KITOH, MAKOTO KOBAYASHI, YUZO TAKADA, and HIROYUKI UTATANE and YO MORIMOTO. Produced by STUDIO PROTEUS and RADIO COMIX. What's Michael? is cover-featured this month, with not one, but three short stories! Watch as Michael helps a thief, frightens a Mafia criminal, and annoys the heck out of some television viewers! And in 3x3 Eyes, Pai and Yakumo battle a mammoth demon and try to recover the legendary "Figure of Man" statue. In Shadow Star, secrets are uncovered and mysteries unfold as Shiina and a friend learn about each other's alien starfish! Plus, evil is revealed on the moon in Seraphic Feather, and Megumi encounters the Earth Spirit (Third Class) in another "lost" episode of Oh My Goddess! BE ADVISED: CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE. b&w, 128pgs. Cover price $4.95.

By MOHIRO KITOH, MAKOTO KOBAYASHI, YUZO TAKADA, and HIROYUKI UTATANE and YO MORIMOTO. Produced by STUDIO PROTEUS. Club 9 continues as Haruo lives the dream of every Japanese country girl: to go to the big city! And Haruo's new friends at college are everything you'd expect of big-city girls, especially the super-sexy Aki. But she's got bad news for the bouncy newcomer! This issue also contains four What's Michael? stories, in which our favorite feline hits the streets for excitement, and ends up with more than he bargained for. Plus: the origin of Catzilla! And, of course, SMB!'s other regular features continue: 3x3 Eyes (Pai fights for control of her demonic power!), Shadow Star (Shiina has to spend her birthday visiting her cold, cruel mother), and Seraphic Feather (Sunao watches as Number Four blows away Kei - awakening her awesome power!). FOR MATURE READERS. b&w, 128pgs. Cover price $4.99.

By MOHIRO KITOH, MAKOTO KOBAYASHI, YUZO TAKADA, and HIROYUKI UTATANE and YO MORIMOTO. Produced by STUDIO PROTEUS. The good times (and the weird times) keep rolling in Dark Horse's premier manga magazine. For starters, ever seen a cat perform a synchronized swimming routine? Well, read What's Michael? and you'll have your first such opportunity. Plus, observe the return of the fugitive veterinarian, Richard Kimbly! In Shadow Star the mystery of the cruel push-dagger boy gets some needed attention, and in Seraphic Feather Kei, Sunao, and M-Zak have finally escaped the restaurant and go separate ways as the story of Apep gets clearer. Meanwhile, our cute country bumpkin continues to woo the gentlemen of Club 9, but lets hope she doesn't get in over her head! Also, in 3x3 Eyes, Yakumo's about to fall into a horrible "monster trap," but not if Pai can save him. All she's got to do is learn how to fly a plane!? It's five flavors of your favorite manga, and it's all in Super Manga Blast! FOR MATURE READERS. b&w, 128pgs. Cover price $5.99.

By MASAMUNE SHIROW, MOHIRO KITOH, MAKOTO KOBAYASHI, YUZO TAKADA, and HIROYUKI UTATANE and YO MORIMOTO. b&w, 128pgs. Featuring the best creators and a variety of action, adventure, drama, comedy, and cuteness, Super Manga Blast! is the perfect place for the uninitiated to see what manga is all about. Five regular manga titles and a special section of Masamune Shirow's Appleseed Hypernotes fill up this 128 page marvel! What's Michael? takes center stage this month with...oh golly, a big fight scene? Well, okay, there's some cuteness, too. But before you get used to that, Seraphic Feather will riddle you with sexy suspense and frenetic action. And to add to that, 3x3 Eyes continues with a battle in the holy land, Kunlun. Shadow Star furthers its journey through the youth psyche gone madly awry, and to settle things down a bit, Club 9 continues to charm your socks off. Cover price $5.99.

MOHIRO KITOH, MAKOTO KOBAYASHI, KENICHI SONODA, YUZO TAKADA, and HIROYUKI UTATANE and YO MORIMOTO. FOR MATURE READERS. b&w, 128pgs. What's Michael has been nominated for the 2004 Eisner Award for Best Humor Publication! This issue's starts off with two episodes of Makoto Kobayashi's playful, cat-centric strip, What's Michael?, featuring conniving, domestic felines at their troublesome best. Kobayashi's slice-of-life Club 9 drama chucks its usual romantic comedy aside, as the frightening, two-part "Nightmare on Aki's Street" story line concludes. The heroics of Hoichi "Gun" Kano are chronicled in Cannon God Exaxxion, with the Exaxxion robot temporarily out of commission Hoichi dones his powerful, armored suit! Ambushed on a space transport leaving the moon, the Seraphic Feather team faces combat of the mysterious, meta-powered kind. The horrific conclusion to Shadow Star's "My Eyes Are the Eyes of a Victim..." story arc finds Shiina confronting the supernatural cause of her classmates' violent deaths, and what happens on the last few pages will DEFINITELY bring about big changes for our lead characters! Cover price $5.99.

MOHIRO KITOH (W/A), MAKOTO KOBAYASHI (W/A), KENICHI SONODA (W/A), AND HIROYUKI UTATANE (W/A) WITH YO MORIMOTO (W/A). b&w, 128pgs. Two hilarious What's Michael? episodes start this issue off, as we find out why kittens and stereo speakers are a bad mix! Shadow Star continues to develop several creepy, adolescent side-characters, and Shiina tries to adjust to life at the high-pressure Banda Academy. The giant robot rumble in Cannon God Exaxxion concludes, as the tenacious Hoichi faces bloodthirsty alien invaders in a fiery showdown! The slice-of-life romance in Club 9 finds the naïve Haruo feeling confused and tested by an insistent suitor. Our Seraphic Feather meta-heroes battle treacherous super-soldiers aboard a doomed space shuttle, but a betrayal among the terrorists may give them the chance they need to escape! FOR MATURE READERS. Cover price $5.99.

MOHIRO KITOH (W/A), MAKOTO KOBAYASHI (W/A), KENICHI SONODA (W/A), and HIROYUKI UTATANE (A) with TOSHIYA TAKEDA (W). b&w, 128pgs. Makoto Kobayashi delivers two tales of domestic frustration and feline cohabitation in the world of What's Michael? Kobayashi's romantic comedy, Club 9, nears its end, as Haruo "Hello" Hattori puts on an outrageous performance for a very rich friend. A strange, dangerous game continues in Shadow Star, with Shiina Tamai now the focus of a destructive Shadow Dragon's fury! When Seraphic Feather's meta-human heroes clash with super-powered terrorists, swords swing, bullets fly, and powerful, alien forces begin to stir! Recovering from his last super-robot battle, Hoichi Kano rests at the Cannon God Exaxxion home base, while the Riofaldian invaders and a certain mad scientist plan their next moves. Cover price $5.99.

MOHIRO KITOH (W/A), MAKOTO KOBAYASHI (W/A), KENICHI SONODA (W/A), and HIROYUKI UTATANE (A) with TOSHIYA TAKEDA (W). Animals unbound! Makoto Kobayashi presents his first extended What's Michael? story line in a demented, Planet of the Apes-style send-up that pits three astronauts against a world of fickle, feline captors! As things get weirder in Shadow Star, a clandestine Japanese agency takes further steps to secure control over powerful, teenage Dragon Bearers. Androids attack in Cannon God Exaxxion! With the Exaxxion base defenses breached, Kenichi Sonoda's sci-fi heroes face a deadly Riofaldian assault. Seraphic Feather's meta-human heroes have their hands full, with enigmatic aliens, super-powered terrorists, and a lunar shuttle that's falling apart around them! - A great monthly mix of action, science fiction, romance, drama, fantasy, horror, and humor! FOR MATURE READERS. Cover price $5.99.

The insanity of Makoto Kobayashi's first extended What's Michael? story arc continues, as stranded astronauts face spitting, scratching horrors on the 'Planet of the Cats!' Whether you're performing as a circus freak or imprisoned in a gross 'breeding cell,' life's surely not easy for a human surrounded by thousands of angry, bipedal felines. The Cannon God Exaxxion team finally sits down for dinner! (Then something really disturbing happens.) Shadow Star and Seraphic Feather, now featured in the original right-to-left, Japanese format, both enter new eras. The Seraphic Feather crew is almost ready to return to Earth, and Shiina's father becomes a Shadow Star detective, edging closer to the secrets of the mysterious Shadow Dragons! Also, SMB!'s entertaining and educational columns, 'Sugoi Japan!' and 'A Fan's View,' continue to inspire fans of Japanese culture! FOR MATURE READERS. Cover price $5.99.

"The Magic Mirror" and "Brain vs. Brawn." Butch and Buttercup back-up story, "It Flies Through the Air!" Cover price $0.10.

Supermouse in "Stop the Music", Buster Bunny in 'untitled' [Get out of bed, Lazybones!] (1/2 pg), "Big Ears" text story (1 pg), Ziggy and Zag in "Trouble Bruin" (2 pgs), Pinky Pig in "Face Value" (1/2 pg), Roscoe in "Cleaning House" (2 pgs), "Dorinda's Ducklings" text story (1 pg), Supermouse in "Small Fry", "Lucky Duck" in 'untitled' [Look at that faker!]. 36 pages, FC. Cover price $0.10.

Super Sex to Sexty Special "You can be Pumped up and Flying in No Time!". Cover by Pierre Davis. Art by Lynn Harrison, Pete Wyma, Bob Tupper, and many others. 10 1/2-in. x 14-in., 48 pages, Text (w/ B&W illustrations). Mature Readers. Cover price $1.25.

Super Sex to Sexty Special "Nimfoe School for Girls!". Cover by Pierre Davis. Art by Bill Wenzel, Lo Linkert, and many others. 10 1/2-in. x 14-in., 48 pages, Text (w/ B&W illustrations). Mature Readers. Cover price $1.25.

Super Sex to Sexty Special "Zodiac Cartoon Special!". Cover by Pierre Davis. Art by Lynn Harrison, Bill Ward, Bill Wenzel, and many others. 10 1/2-in. x 14-in., 48 pages, Text (w/ B&W illustrations). Mature Readers. Cover price $1.25.

Super Sex to Sexty Special "Don't be Stuck up, Break In!". Cover by Pierre Davis. Art by Lynn Harrison, Bill Ward, Bill Wenzel, and many others. 10 1/2-in. x 14-in., 48 pages, Text (w/ B&W illustrations). Mature Readers. Cover price $1.50.

Written by Darin Henry. Art and Cover by Jeff Shultz. College students Jess and Kelly have absolutely nothing in common except a two-timing boyfriend whos given them both a rare STD called Vampire! Now these two unlikely friends must join forces to make the best of their new, vampire lifestyles, along with help from their new suck-buddy Stewart, and Vera, the sorority sister from hell! This laugh-loaded, triple-sized origin issue is written by Darin Henry (The Ellen Show) with art and cover by Jeff Shultz (Betty & Veronica). 64 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $3.99.