City Hunter, Vol. 1 · Jump Comics · 1986

City Hunter, Vol. 1 · Jump Comics · 1986 — from Volumes 1 to 12 (1986 to 1988) in the City Hunter Manga Gallery. What you are looking at: City Hunter volume 1, Jump Comics.

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”. Jump Comics · Shueisha · January 15, 1986 · ISBN 4-08-852381-4. Tsukasa Hojo drew every cover of the run.

Shown here at its verified native size, 747×1200 — the largest honest scan the Library holds for this cover.