The City Hunter Manga Gallery
Thirty-five volumes, six years, one unmistakable silhouette.
This is the paper shelf: every Jump Comics volume of City Hunter, in order, with the bibliographic record for each book, the volume title, release month and ISBN, verified against the standard published catalogue of the run. Tsukasa Hojo drew every cover; the run moved at a book roughly every two months for six years.
One honest note before the shelf. Volume 1’s cover is pictured and verified. For volumes 2 to 35, no cover image could be verified from an opened source in this pass: the publisher and retail archives that carry cover art for so many series simply do not carry it for the 1986 to 1992 Jump Comics printings. So the page documents those volumes in full rather than borrowing an image it cannot stand behind. The gap is logged, and the covers will join their entries as sources allow.
Volume 1: the door into Shinjuku
Ryo Saeba and Kaori Makimura on the first book’s cover, January 1986: the sweeper with his Colt Python, and the partner who polices him with a 100-ton hammer. Hojo’s realism, faces drawn like film stars rather than cartoon types, is there from the first volume.
The book gathers the opening stories, beginning with the episode the anime would later name a film after: “Angel Dust”. The magazine run had opened the previous February; everything the franchise became is already present in these pages.
Jump Comics · Shueisha · January 15, 1986 · ISBN 4-08-852381-4
Volumes 1 to 12 · 1986 to 1988
Volumes 13 to 24 · 1988 to 1990
Volumes 25 to 35 · 1990 to 1992
Reading the run
The City Hunter shelf
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