Five Star Stories GN (2002-2005 Toyspress) English Edition comic books 2001-2003

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Chapter I: Part 1!"

Story and art by Mamoru Nagano. English adaptation by John Wisnom.

Available for the first time in English! First appearing in New Type in 1986, this series continues into the new millennium. It's the Joker calendar year J.C. 2988.

One of the Galaxy's most prestigious fatima meights, Dr. Chrome Ballanche completes the work on his final two masterpieces. Lachesis and Clotho - only to have to take them into custody by the local lord! He is a depraved upstart merchant by the name of Grand Duke Juba Bardiam, and he covets the two fatimas to satisfy his outlandish lecheries. Ballanche has no one to turn to for help, but his longtime friend Ladios Sopp to save his two daughters from Juba's slimy clutches.

Softcover, 9 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 80 pages, B&W.

NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left.

Cover price $9.98.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. "Chapter I: Part 2!"

Story and art by Mamoru Nagano. English adaptation by John Wisnom.

Available for the first time in English!

Before the debut at which the two fatimas are to choose their masters - an event rigged by Juba - Clotho makes a run for it. With the help of Sopp, Voard's Viewlard (the preident of the local Trün Union in disguise) and Amaterasu's Mirage Knights, Clotho finds a protector in the warrior-king extraordinaire, Colus III of the planet Jüno.

Softcover, 9 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 80 pages, B&W.

NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left.

Cover price $9.98.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. "Chapter I: Part 3!"

Story and art by Mamoru Nagano. English adaptation by John Wisnom.

First appearing in New Type in 1986, this series continues into the new millennium.

Across the five star systems, known as the "Joker Systems," kingdoms dot the heavens like stars. Knights, known as "Headliners," control giant robots called Mortar Heads to protect the sanctity of each kingdom. Bound to the knights are the fatimas, fabricated humanoids who possess expanded mental abilities that make it possible for Headliners to control their robotic armor. One of the Galaxy's most prestigious fatima meights, Dr. Chrome Ballanche, completes the work on his final two masterpieces, Lachesis and Clotho, only to have to take them into custody by the local lord! He is a depraved upstart merchant by the name of Grand Duke Juba Bardiam, and he covets the two fatimas to satisfy his outlandish lecheries. Ballanche has no one to turn to for help, but his longtime friend Ladios Sopp to save his two daughters from Juba's slimy clutches.

Softcover, 9 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 80 pages, B&W.

NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left.

Cover price $9.98.

Volume 4 - 1st printing. "Chapter II: Part 1!"

Story and art by Mamoru Nagano. English adaptation by John Wisnom.

Across the five star systems, known as the "Joker Systems," kingdoms dot the heavens like stars. Knights, known as "Headliners," control giant robots called Mortar Heads to protect the sanctity of each kingdom. Bound to the knights are the fatimas, fabricated humanoids who possess expanded mental abilities that make it possible for Headliners to control their robotic armor. One of the Galaxy's most prestigious fatima meights, Dr. Chrome Ballanche, completes the work on his final two masterpieces, Lachesis and Clotho, only to have to take them into custody by the local lord! He is a depraved upstart merchant by the name of Grand Duke Juba Bardiam, and he covets the two fatimas to satisfy his outlandish lecheries. Ballanche has no one to turn to for help, but his longtime friend Ladios Sopp to save his two daughters from Juba's slimy clutches.

Softcover, 9 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 80 pages, B&W.

NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left.

Cover price $9.98.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. "Chapter II: Part 2!"

Story and art by Mamoru Nagano. English adaptation by John Wisnom.

Across the five star systems, known as the "Joker Systems," kingdoms dot the heavens like stars. Knights, known as "Headliners," control giant robots called Mortar Heads to protect the sanctity of each kingdom. Bound to the knights are the fatimas, fabricated humanoids who possess expanded mental abilities that make it possible for Headliners to control their robotic armor. One of the Galaxy's most prestigious fatima meights, Dr. Chrome Ballanche, completes the work on his final two masterpieces, Lachesis and Clotho, only to have to take them into custody by the local lord! He is a depraved upstart merchant by the name of Grand Duke Juba Bardiam, and he covets the two fatimas to satisfy his outlandish lecheries. Ballanche has no one to turn to for help, but his longtime friend Ladios Sopp to save his two daughters from Juba's slimy clutches.

Softcover, 9 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 80 pages, B&W.

NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left.

Cover price $9.98.

Volume 6 - 1st printing.

Story and art by Mamoru Nagano. English adaptation by John Wisnom.

Across the five star systems, known as the "Joker Systems," kingdoms dot the heavens like stars. Knights, known as "Headliners," control giant robots called Mortar Heads to protect the sanctity of each kingdom. Bound to the knights are the fatimas, fabricated humanoids who possess expanded mental abilities that make it possible for Headliners to control their robotic armor. One of the Galaxy's most prestigious fatima meights, Dr. Chrome Ballanche, completes the work on his final two masterpieces, Lachesis and Clotho, only to have to take them into custody by the local lord! He is a depraved upstart merchant by the name of Grand Duke Juba Bardiam, and he covets the two fatimas to satisfy his outlandish lecheries. Ballanche has no one to turn to for help, but his longtime friend Ladios Sopp to save his two daughters from Juba's slimy clutches.

Softcover, 9 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 80 pages, B&W.

NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left.

Cover price $9.98.

Volume 7 - 1st printing.

Story and art by Mamoru Nagano. English adaptation by John Wisnom.

Across the five star systems, known as the "Joker Systems," kingdoms dot the heavens like stars. Knights, known as "Headliners," control giant robots called Mortar Heads to protect the sanctity of each kingdom. Bound to the knights are the fatimas, fabricated humanoids who possess expanded mental abilities that make it possible for Headliners to control their robotic armor. One of the Galaxy's most prestigious fatima meights, Dr. Chrome Ballanche, completes the work on his final two masterpieces, Lachesis and Clotho, only to have to take them into custody by the local lord! He is a depraved upstart merchant by the name of Grand Duke Juba Bardiam, and he covets the two fatimas to satisfy his outlandish lecheries. Ballanche has no one to turn to for help, but his longtime friend Ladios Sopp to save his two daughters from Juba's slimy clutches.

Softcover, 9 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 80 pages, B&W.

NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left.

Cover price $9.98.

Volume 8 - 1st printing.

Story and art by Mamoru Nagano. English adaptation by John Wisnom.

Across the five star systems, known as the "Joker Systems," kingdoms dot the heavens like stars. Knights, known as "Headliners," control giant robots called Mortar Heads to protect the sanctity of each kingdom. Bound to the knights are the fatimas, fabricated humanoids who possess expanded mental abilities that make it possible for Headliners to control their robotic armor. One of the Galaxy's most prestigious fatima meights, Dr. Chrome Ballanche, completes the work on his final two masterpieces, Lachesis and Clotho, only to have to take them into custody by the local lord! He is a depraved upstart merchant by the name of Grand Duke Juba Bardiam, and he covets the two fatimas to satisfy his outlandish lecheries. Ballanche has no one to turn to for help, but his longtime friend Ladios Sopp to save his two daughters from Juba's slimy clutches.

Softcover, 9 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 80 pages, B&W.

NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left.

Cover price $9.98.

Volume 9 - 1st printing.

Story and art by Mamoru Nagano. English adaptation by John Wisnom.

The story shifts scene to the Kastenpo region on the planet Both, a rather desolate mining area along the Dragon Road and a training cum vacation spot for headliners, their fatimas, groupies and whatever. The events center around the region's newest visitor, the upstanding cleric/knight Muse Van Reyback, and its most notorious resident, the renegade Dougulus Kaien. After a chance meeting of the two under less than cordial conditions, Reyback drops into a bar recommended to him by none other than Voards Viewlard (remember him?), and is told about the latest exploits of Kaien, the Silver Knight. It seems that four months previous, Kaien, the most wanted man in the Galaxy, infiltrated a military base connected with metorotekchrome, the metal for forging mortar head swords, to collect intelligence. He was spotted, and during the ensuing escape, his fatima Auxo was blown to bits. Saving her, particularly her memory, is left up to Dr. Ballanche's protege Prisen Corks. Kaien's stunt does not go unnoticed, as the local Republic of U-Thu sends a mortar headd force, led by a rather disgusting chap Meiyu Sukat, to launch a "take no prisoners" attack on the village of migrant miners and anti-government guerillas where Kaien sought refuge and was taken captive by the mysterious woman leading the guerillas.

Softcover, 9 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 96 pages, B&W.

NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left.

Cover price $9.98.

Volume 9 - 1st printing.

Story and art by Mamoru Nagano. English adaptation by John Wisnom.

The story shifts scene to the Kastenpo region on the planet Both, a rather desolate mining area along the Dragon Road and a training cum vacation spot for headliners, their fatimas, groupies and whatever. The events center around the region's newest visitor, the upstanding cleric/knight Muse Van Reyback, and its most notorious resident, the renegade Dougulus Kaien. After a chance meeting of the two under less than cordial conditions, Reyback drops into a bar recommended to him by none other than Voards Viewlard (remember him?), and is told about the latest exploits of Kaien, the Silver Knight. It seems that four months previous, Kaien, the most wanted man in the Galaxy, infiltrated a military base connected with metorotekchrome, the metal for forging mortar head swords, to collect intelligence. He was spotted, and during the ensuing escape, his fatima Auxo was blown to bits. Saving her, particularly her memory, is left up to Dr. Ballanche's protege Prisen Corks. Kaien's stunt does not go unnoticed, as the local Republic of U-Thu sends a mortar headd force, led by a rather disgusting chap Meiyu Sukat, to launch a "take no prisoners" attack on the village of migrant miners and anti-government guerillas where Kaien sought refuge and was taken captive by the mysterious woman leading the guerillas.

Softcover (Saddle Stitched), 9 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 96 pages, B&W.

NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left.

Cover price $9.98.

Volume 10 - 1st printing.

Story and art by Mamoru Nagano. English adaptation by John Wisnom.

Iler the Bishop is in town to test a new MH called the Ashura Temple. The victims are none other than Lester, Palsuet, and their MH Pluto. And Kaien redeems his fatima Auxo from major surgery at Corks laboratory, where the two are reunited.

Softcover, 9 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 96 pages, B&W.

NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left.

Cover price $9.98.

Volume 10 - 1st printing.

Story and art by Mamoru Nagano. English adaptation by John Wisnom.

Iler the Bishop is in town to test a new MH called the Ashura Temple. The victims are none other than Lester, Palsuet, and their MH Pluto. And Kaien redeems his fatima Auxo from major surgery at Corks laboratory, where the two are reunited.

Softcover (Saddle Stitched), 9 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 96 pages, B&W.

NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left.

Cover price $9.98.

Volume 11 - 1st printing.

Story and art by Mamoru Nagano. English adaptation by John Wisnom.

After a flashback to the time when Ladios Sopp and Chrome Ballanche first met and their encounter with swordsman sage Dimos Hiahraki, the stories turned to the Kingdom of Taika, doomed to war and tragedy for thousands of years in another universe.

Softcover, 9 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 96 pages, B&W.

NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left.

Cover price $9.98.

Volume 11 - 1st printing.

Story and art by Mamoru Nagano. English adaptation by John Wisnom.

After a flashback to the time when Ladios Sopp and Chrome Ballanche first met and their encounter with swordsman sage Dimos Hiahraki, the stories turned to the Kingdom of Taika, doomed to war and tragedy for thousands of years in another universe.

Softcover (Saddle Stitched), 9 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 96 pages, B&W.

NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left. Cover price $9.98.

Volume 12 - 1st printing.

Story and art by Mamoru Nagano. English adaptation by John Wisnom.

Nagano's epic tale of the ongoing conflict in the Joker Universe continues! Back on the planet Both, the mysterious Mortar Head "Ashura Temple" is decimating headliners and their crews in the name of science and technology. But Iler the Bishop isn't satisfied with the twenty-eight previous opportunities to experiment in military mayhem!

Softcover, 9 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 96 pages, B&W.

NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left.

Cover price $9.98.

Volume 12 - 1st printing.

Story and art by Mamoru Nagano. English adaptation by John Wisnom.

Nagano's epic tale of the ongoing conflict in the Joker Universe continues! Back on the planet Both, the mysterious Mortar Head "Ashura Temple" is decimating headliners and their crews in the name of science and technology. But Iler the Bishop isn't satisfied with the twenty-eight previous opportunities to experiment in military mayhem!

Softcover (Saddle Stitched), 9 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 96 pages, B&W.

NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left.

Cover price $9.98.

Volume 13 - 1st printing.

Story and art by Mamoru Nagano. English adaptation by John Wisnom.

The story of Fatima Fates Atropos has begun with the main character conspicuously missing! Amaterasu, the Emperor of Delta Belun, decides to take a leave of absence to visit Kastenpo on the planet Both. Unfortunately, he is mortally wounded when his transport is attacked by a secret mission led by Diver Di-Barrow in search of the dying LED Dragon! Meanwhile, with its commander-in-chief's departure, the Floating Temple is thrown into a state of mass confusion, with headliners and divers running amok and safety barriers breaking apart! However, Lachesis ultimately proves to all her ability to rule in Amaterasu's absence.

Softcover, 9 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 96 pages, B&W.

NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left.

Cover price $9.98.

Volume 14 - 1st printing.

Story and art by Mamoru Nagano. English adaptation by John Wisnom.

Nagano's Sci-Fi Epic Continues! Just because the Floating Temple has been kept afloat, does not mean that all is back to business as usual. Lachesis concludes the cause of the uproar to be some physical disruption at Amaterasu's end. So she sends a drug-crazed, murder happy Schaft at the helm of the virgin Jagd Mirage - with even nuttier Paltenon in the fatima cockpit!

Softcover, 9 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 96 pages, B&W.

NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left.

Cover price $9.98.

Volume 15 - 1st printing.

Story and art by Mamoru Nagano. English adaptation by John Wisnom.

Nagano's Sci-Fi Epic Continues! Sopp tries to figure out a name for the dragon nymph that revitalized everything about his super powers. The crew is spotted by Di-Barrow's troops. While hightailing it, the literally run into Atropes, who disposes of their pursuers. While Sopp is recuperating, he dreams of his first years of infancy and how he recovered from his comatose state. Barrow continues his search-and-destroy mission, but Atropes has some tricks up her sleeve.

Softcover, 9 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 80 pages, B&W.

NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left.

Cover price $9.98.

Volume 16 - 1st printing.

Story and art by Mamoru Nagano. English adaptation by John Wisnom.

The Auge, which Atropos happened to find in her father's backyard, and Braford's wreck of an MH (controlled by A's sister Kyo) go at it, as the scene swings around between the Floating Temple, Aisha Codante in Zanda City (Kastenpo) heavily bandaged from burns suffered in her spiff with fellow Mirage Knight Ting, and the Schaft-Paltenon duo out in space (and spaced out). The mission to rescue Sopp has apparently gotten underway in earnest. Braford wins the battle with Atropos brilliantly, despite a dysfunctional Kyo and the awesome power of the Auge. Atropos cleverly escapes Auge's demise and takes Sopp and Sweh into the huge complex linear accelerator under the hideout, where we find out from Atropos why Kyo went haywire. Braford fails to grab them again and Barrow gives him the third degree for it. Atropos then decides to abandon the hideout, taking Sopp and Suezhou to safety in a nearby marsh, as Lonn approaches with the Schpeltor, courtesy of Kaien, and a full corps of AKD infantry regulars.

Softcover, 9 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 80 pages, B&W.

NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left.

Cover price $9.98.