Summit of the Gods GN (2009-2015 Fanfare/Ponent Mon) comic books
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Issue #1-1ST
Published Oct 2009 by Fanfare/Ponent Mon.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Volume 1 - 1st printing. Written by Yumemakura Baku. Art by Jiro Taniguchi. Why climb Mount Everest? Englishman George Herbert Leigh Mallory said in reply, "Because it is there" in a March 1923 interview with The New York Times. On his third expedition to the mountain in June 1924, Mallory and his climbing partner, Andrew Irvine, disappeared on the North-East ridge during their ascent, having been sighted only a few hundred yards from the summit. In 1993, Makoto Fukumachi, photographer for a Japanese expedition, stumbles across an old Kodak camera. Could it be Mallory's camera? Did it hold the secret of whether Mallory and Irvine made it to the summit almost three decades ahead of Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing? Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 328 pages, B&W. Cover price $25.00.
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Issue #2-1ST
Published Jan 2011 by Fanfare/Ponent Mon.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Volume 2 - 1st printing. Written by Yumemakura Baku. Art by Jiro Taniguchi. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 328 pages, B&W. Cover price $25.00.
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Published Jul 2012 by Fanfare/Ponent Mon.
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Volume 3 - 1st printing. Written by Yumemakura Baku. Art by Jiro Taniguchi. Tsuneo Hase has died in an avalanche attempting to climb K2 solo without oxygen, leaving Jouji Habu alone to face the next big challenge. Habu has disappeared in Nepal, as has the camera that may unlock Everest's mystery, so Japanese photographer Fukamachi has to search anew for the man known as "Venomous Snake" and he draws on an unexpected source for help. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 336 pages, B&W. Cover price $25.00.
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Issue #4-1ST
Published Sep 2013 by Fanfare/Ponent Mon.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Volume 4 - 1st printing. Written by Yumemakura Baku. Art by Jiro Taniguchi. "Climbing is all I have, I climb." Photographer Fukamachi is visiting Habu's home when the felon Mohan turns up demanding the missing Kodak but is foiled when his earlier captor shoots and wounds him. Habu admits that he took the camera from Mallory's body but that there was no film found. He releases the camera to Fukamachi's charge on the understanding that he can only use it after Habu completes his solo climb of Everest's South West face. But Fukamachi is going with him! Taniguchi's realistic art and Baku's tireless script will take you to such heights that mountaineers only dream of. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 312 pages, B&W. Cover price $25.00.
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Issue #5-1ST
Published Jun 2015 by Fanfare/Ponent Mon.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Volume 5 - 1st printing. Written by Yumemakura Baku. Art by Jiro Taniguchi. Ninety years have passed since Mallory and Irvine were last seen alive only a few hundred yards from the then-unconquered summit of the world's highest mountain. The scene is finally set for Habu's challenge of the South West face of Everest in winter, solo and without oxygen. Fukamachi has accompanied him so far but must now descend to base camp and leave the mountain to Habu. Will Habu make the summit? Will Mallory's camera give up its secret? Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 304 pages, B&W. Cover price $25.00.
