The Hokuto no Ken manga gallery
This is the complete first edition of the manga as Japanese readers first collected it: the Jump Comics tankōbon, published by Shueisha from March 1984 to March 1989, a volume roughly every two months while the serial still ran. Buronson wrote them; Tetsuo Hara painted every cover.
The set is famous on sight: the banner masthead, the volume title in the corner triangle, and a full painting underneath, Kenshiro and his enemies modelled like film posters. Later editions re-drew these covers more than once, which is exactly why the originals are documented here on their own, in order, with their dates.
The first cover, and the shelf it built
Every cover below is the original Jump Comics edition, Shueisha, 1984 to 1989, checked volume by volume against the published books, their printed numbers and their release dates. Tetsuo Hara painted these covers while drawing twenty pages a week; together they are the visual signature of 1980s Jump.
VOLUMES 1 TO 9
The Shin and Nanto years
VOLUMES 10 TO 18
Raoh, and the road to the capital
VOLUMES 19 TO 27
The Land of Asura, and farewell
