Legend of Mother Sarah City of the Children (1996) comic books
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Issue #1
Published Jan 1996 by Dark Horse.$3.20
$2.50
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Written by Katsuhiro Otomo. Art and cover by Takumi Nagayasu. Mother Sarah has never stopped searching for her missing children. Her quest takes Sarah and her companion Tsue to a mining town controlled by a child dictator bent on using his youthful army to rid the world of everyone over 40 years of age! But Sarah uncovers the real power behind this planned geriatricide: a cruelly beautiful woman who is the apparent mistress of Boy's Town. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $3.95.
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Issue #2
Published Feb 1996 by Dark Horse.$3.20
$2.50
Written by Katsuhiro Otomo. Art and cover by Takumi Nagayasu. Mother Sarah once led a comfortable life with her family in the colonies orbiting high above the ruined planet earth. But nothing lasts forever. An ugly civil war has torn her family asunder, leaving her an earthbound sex-slave to her colony's political enemies, the Epoch movement. If she is to survive, escape, and find her missing children, she must never give up hope. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $3.95.
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Issue #3
Published Mar 1996 by Dark Horse.$3.20
$2.50
Written by Katsuhiro Otomo. Art and cover by Takumi Nagayasu. Sarah's prospects for finding her family have never looked dimmer than they do today. Enslaved by the City of the Children, she and the other adults are at hard labor for their youthful captors, excavating leaky canisters of deadly radioactive waste from an icebound mine. The teen-aged overseers' maltreatment of another prisoner forces her to make an impossible choice: she can turn a blind eye or she can put her own life -- and her quest -- on the line by tangling with the mysterious Mother of the City of the Children. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $3.95.
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Issue #4
Published Apr 1996 by Dark Horse.$2.50
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Written by Katsuhiro Otomo. Art and cover by Takumi Nagayasu. The Mother holds the real power in the of the City of the Children, and she would like nothing better than to see Sarah dead. But discontent is brewing amongst certain factions of Mother's soldiers, and that discontent could be the key to Sarah's escape from the City of Children! 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $3.95.
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Issue #5
Published May 1996 by Dark Horse.$2.50
$2.50
Written by Katsuhiro Otomo. Art and cover by Takumi Nagayasu. The sinister Mother of the City of the Children is throwing a party for her charges, a great feast lubricated with forbidden liquor and illegal aphrodisiacs. But the main event -- the thing that will make the night -- is Sarah herself, as she's pitted against a bevy of drug-crazed giant men. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $3.95.
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Issue #6
Published Jun 1996 by Dark Horse.$2.50
$2.50
Written by Katsuhiro Otomo. Art and cover by Takumi Nagayasu. On her journey to discover her lost children, Sarah came to this city -- a city populated almost entirely by youth. She had hoped to find her own children here, to piece back together the life she had before the evacuation of the space colonies. But now, cornered by two drug-crazed rapists, she wonders if her cause is hopeless. If she'll even make it out of this city alive. If she'll ever see her children again. This is one woman's pilgrimage through the apocalypse, a pilgrimage of unending disappointment and never-ending hope; this is The Legend of Mother Sarah. 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $3.95.
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Issue #7
Published Jul 1996 by Dark Horse.$2.50
$2.50
Written by Katsuhiro Otomo. Art and cover by Takumi Nagayasu. First Sarah thought the city was run by the children. Then she thought it was under the thumb of an egocentric woman named Mother. But now she has met Zaar, and she knows exactly who holds the reins to the city . . . and who will hold her own reins if she cannot escape. 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $3.95.
