Vertigo Pop! Tokyo (2002) comic books
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Issue #1
Published Sep 2002 by DC/Vertigo.$2.50
$2.50
A lone American armed with a state-of-the-art digicam invades Tokyo in search of the ultimate in techno-cool. Just when he thinks he's figured the place out, a precocious, ultra-hip Japanese high-school girl ? with pop star dreams bigger than her outsize ego ? sweeps him away into the fast, furious and unforgiving underside life in the world's most electric city. Cover price $2.95.
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Issue #2
Published Oct 2002 by DC/Vertigo.$2.50
$2.50
WRITTEN BY JONATHAN VANKIN; ART AND COVER BY SETH FISHER In stores August 14. The first VERTIGO POP! experience continues. A kidnapped pop star's future hangs in the balance as Maki, the carefree costumed teenager, leads her hapless gaijin companion straight into the twisted heart of Tokyo's underworld. Gasp as our intrepid American hero Steve smashes a ramen cart with a stolen futuristic limo! Shudder as aspiring yakuza member Ryuji attempts to slice off his pinky with a sushi knife! Gape at drunken salarymen, Shibuya pick-up artists and a city that encourages grown men to relieve themselves in public! MATURE READERS FC, 32 PG. (2 OF 4) $2.95 Cover price $2.95.
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Issue #3
Published Nov 2002 by DC/Vertigo.$3.00
$2.50
$2.50
WRITTEN BY JONATHAN VANKIN; ART AND COVER BY SETH FISHER In stores September 4. Anarchy in Tokyo! Maki brings a Japanese fast-food joint to its knees in a hail of flying seaweed burgers, then kidnaps Hike from his own kidnappers while the ketchup is still dripping from the walls. Steve and the young yakuza Ryuji must somehow work together across their mutual language barrier to find Hike before the gang boss Igarashi gets to him...unless Ryuji kills Steve first. Meanwhile, Maki merrily leads Hike to meet the one group of people he doesn't exactly want to see right now ? his adoring Japanese fan club! MATURE READERS FC, 32 PG. (3 OF 4) $2.95 Cover price $2.95.
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Issue #4
Published Dec 2002 by DC/Vertigo.$2.50
$2.50
WRITTEN BY JONATHAN VANKIN; ART AND COVER BY SETH FISHER In stores October 2. Maki plots her final coup against pop star Hike. If she can't win his heart, she has something more dramatic in mind. Steve, our gaijin hero (of sorts) chooses the company of Yakuza over the unappetizing prospect of a Japanese jail. Mizumi spills the story to the detectives over a large squid, egg and mayonnaise pizza. And when everything collides at the sold-out 1-6-7 concert inside Tokyo Dome, the insane energy boiling beneath Tokyo's polite and orderly surface threatens to explode like the Mount Fuji volcano! MATURE READERS FC, 32 PG. (4 OF 4) $2.95 Cover price $2.95.
