Parasyte GN (1998-2003 Mixx/Tokyopop) Premium Edition comic books

Pocket Manga Edition - Volume 1 - 1st printing. Story and art by Hitosi Iwaaki. It enters your home while you are sleeping. Silently it slips into your ear and takes over your brain. In a matter of seconds it consumes your entire head, replacing it with its own grotesque facsimile. You wake up in the morning and your family doesn't know the difference. At least, not until your head splits open into a toothy maw and rips your family apart. Actually, it isn't you anymore. You are dead. Your body has been infected...by a Parasyte! Alien Parasytes are living among us, feeding on innocent people and hiding the evidence. With their fearsome strength and shape shifting ability, the Parasytes are virtually unstoppable. Only Shin, a high school senior whose left hand was infected by a Parasyte, knows of their existence. It's a heavy burden to bear, one which until now, he's had to bear alone. Softcover, 4 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 192 pages, B&W. Mature Readers

Premium Edition - Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. Story and art by Hitosi Iwaaki. It enters your home while you are sleeping. Silently it slips into your ear and takes over your brain. In a matter of seconds it consumes your entire head, replacing it with its own grotesque facsimile. You wake up in the morning and your family doesn't know the difference. At least, not until your head splits open into a toothy maw and rips your family apart. Actually, it isn't you anymore. You are dead. Your body has been infected...by a Parasyte! Alien Parasytes are living among us, feeding on innocent people and hiding the evidence. With their fearsome strength and shape shifting ability, the Parasytes are virtually unstoppable. Only Shin, a high school senior whose left hand was infected by a Parasyte, knows of their existence. It's a heavy burden to bear, one which until now, he's had to bear alone. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 192 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $11.95.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. Story and art by Hitosi Iwaaki. It enters your home while you are sleeping. Silently it slips into your ear and takes over your brain. In a matter of seconds it consumes your entire head, replacing it with its own grotesque facsimile. You wake up in the morning and your family doesn't know the difference. At least, not until your head splits open into a toothy maw and rips your family apart. Actually, it isn't you anymore. You are dead. Your body has been infected...by a Parasyte! Alien Parasytes are living among us, feeding on innocent people and hiding the evidence. With their fearsome strength and shape shifting ability, the Parasytes are virtually unstoppable. Only Shin, a high school senior whose left hand was infected by a Parasyte, knows of their existence. It's a heavy burden to bear, one which until now, he's had to bear alone. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 192 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $11.95.

Premium Edition - Volume 2 - 2nd and later printings. Story and art by Hitosi Iwaaki. It enters your home while you are sleeping. Silently it slips into your ear and takes over your brain. In a matter of seconds it consumes your entire head, replacing it with its own grotesque facsimile. You wake up in the morning and your family doesn't know the difference. At least, not until your head splits open into a toothy maw and rips your family apart. Actually, it isn't you anymore. You are dead. Your body has been infected...by a Parasyte! Alien Parasytes are living among us, feeding on innocent people and hiding the evidence. With their fearsome strength and shape shifting ability, the Parasytes are virtually unstoppable. Only Shin, a high school senior whose left hand was infected by a Parasyte, knows of their existence. It's a heavy burden to bear, one which until now, he's had to bear alone. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 192 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $11.95.

Mixx Edition - Volume 3 - 1st printing. Story and art by Hitosi Iwaaki. It enters your home while you are sleeping. Silently it slips into your ear and takes over your brain. In a matter of seconds it consumes your entire head, replacing it with its own grotesque facsimile. You wake up in the morning and your family doesn't know the difference. At least, not until your head splits open into a toothy maw and rips your family apart. Actually, it isn't you anymore. You are dead. Your body has been infected...by a Parasyte! Alien Parasytes are living among us, feeding on innocent people and hiding the evidence. With their fearsome strength and shape shifting ability, the Parasytes are virtually unstoppable. Only Shin, a high school senior whose left hand was infected by a Parasyte, knows of their existence. It's a heavy burden to bear, one which until now, he's had to bear alone. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 192 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $11.95.

Premium Edition - Volume 3 - 2nd and later printings. Story and art by Hitosi Iwaaki. It enters your home while you are sleeping. Silently it slips into your ear and takes over your brain. In a matter of seconds it consumes your entire head, replacing it with its own grotesque facsimile. You wake up in the morning and your family doesn't know the difference. At least, not until your head splits open into a toothy maw and rips your family apart. Actually, it isn't you anymore. You are dead. Your body has been infected...by a Parasyte! Alien Parasytes are living among us, feeding on innocent people and hiding the evidence. With their fearsome strength and shape shifting ability, the Parasytes are virtually unstoppable. Only Shin, a high school senior whose left hand was infected by a Parasyte, knows of their existence. It's a heavy burden to bear, one which until now, he's had to bear alone. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 192 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $11.95.

Premium Edition - Volume 4 - 1st printing. Story and art by Hitosi Iwaaki. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 192 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $11.95.

Premium Edition - Volume 5 - 1st printing. Story and art by Hitosi Iwaaki. Catch up with Hitosi Iwaaki's chilling and oddly humorous manga series with these backlist collections! Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 192 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $11.95.

Premium Edition - Volume 6 - 1st printing. Story and art by Hitosi Iwaaki. Catch up with Hitosi Iwaaki's chilling and oddly humorous manga series with these backlist collections! Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 192 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $11.95.

Volume 6 - 2nd and later printings. Story and art by Hitosi Iwaaki. Catch up with Hitosi Iwaaki's chilling and oddly humorous manga series with these backlist collections! Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 192 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $11.95.

Volume 7 - 1st printing. Story and art by Hitosi Iwaaki. Winner of the 1993 Kodansha Manga Award for "Best Manga Series!" The evil Parasytes have sent a private investigator to learn all they can about Shin, the one person who is a threat to their plans. When Shin turns the investigator against his employers, the Parasytes use swift and violent force to see that their secret doesn't get out. The intelligent story, gritty action, and wonderfully drawn manga is accessible to manga fans and non fans alike. Find out why Parasyte is one of the best stories of alien invasion ever written! Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 224 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $11.95.

Volume 8 - 1st printing. Story and art by Hitosi Iwaaki. Shin try's to mourn Kana and his apparent lack of emotion over the loss worries him. Fearing that he's losing his humanity and slowly becoming a parasyte, he struggles with the way he's losing control of his life. If that wasn't enough Shin also has to contend with Hirokawa's political reach, and face a Parasyte unlike any he and Lefty have faced before -- it's faster, stronger, and smarter than the others, and seems impossible to kill! Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 192 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $11.95.

Volume 9 - 1st printing. Story and art by Hitosi Iwaaki. What is Tamara Rockford up to? That's the question that everyone is asking in the latest installment of the sci-fi manga, Parasyte. The other Parasytes think she's conspiring against them. The detective Kuramori thinks she slaughtered his family; and Lefty suspects that she holds the key to bringing peace between Parasytes and humans. When everyone converges in the public park, things are bound to get nasty. Can Tamara's message of peace be heard in the midst of so much hatred? Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 184 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $11.95.

Volume 10 - 1st printing. Story and art by Hitosi Iwaaki. Our planet has been invaded by Parasytes -- alien creatures that take over their hosts' bodies and turn the victims into killing machines. So far, they've had the upper hand. Their ability to morph their appearance and blend in, combined with their super-human strength and regenerative powers make them nearly unstoppable. The Japanese government is now striking back. Shin, one of only two humans to co-exist with a Parasyte, has been recruited to join a military raid on the Parasytes' stronghold. But he's not the only civilian involved -- a serial killer who makes Hannibal Lecter look tame has been released from prison to join the assault. As the hunter becomes the hunted, the line between good and evil grows even more blurred. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 192 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $11.95.

Volume 11 - 1st printing. Story and art by Hitosi Iwaaki. The award-winning sci-fi/horror series of graphic terror! The police raid on the Parasyte stronghold of City Hall isn't going quite as planned. The Parasytes' secret weapon, the invulnerable fighter Goro, is slaughtering police and military forces. To make matters worse, the serial killer that the police brought in to identify Parasytes has escaped. With the official assault a disaster, it is now up to Shin and Lefty to face Goro alone. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 184 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $11.95.

Volume 12 - 1st printing. Story and art by Hitosi Iwaaki. The Parasyte threat is finally over... almost. One Parasyte remains: Goto, who holds 5 Parasytes in one body and can morph all of his limbs to deadly effect. He single-handedly killed an entire military battalion during the City Hall raid. Shin has escaped from Goto twice now, but only with Lefty's help. Now Lefty is gone, and Shin will have to confront Goto one last time. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 192 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $11.95.