X/1999 TPB (1996-2005 Viz Digest) 1st Edition comic books 1996

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Prelude!" Story and art by Clamp. X/1999, an occult science fiction fantasy, is a stunning work of shôjo (girls' comics) from the collective of CLAMP _ a combine of four female shôjo artists who have taken all of Asia by storm! After a mysterious six-year absence, Kamui, a young man with mysterious psionic powers, returns to Tokyo. Now his childhood girlfriend Kotori and psychic Princess Hitono are having prophetic dreams about Kamui's role in the end of the world! What do these strange visions mean? Why does Kamui warn Kotori and her brother Fuma to stay away from him? And who are these psionically powered beings who keep picking fights with Kamui? In Volume 2, Kamui _ returning to Tokyo years after the death of his own mother _ is a changed man. He's moody and distant to his old friends, yet determined to protect them from the dark forces that swirl around him. For he is the nexus of a great cataclysm to come, and the inheritor of a strange destiny that could decide the fate of an entire world! Haunted by his tragic past, Kamui struggles to understand his role in the future...a terrible fate inexorably linked to his unique powers. Now, as seers and psychics across Japan turn their eyes to Tokyo and the drama beginning to unfold there, the lines between light and dark are being drawn. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 192 pages, B&W. Cover price $15.95.