A Link to the Past — Japanese edition (Ishinomori)

A Link to the Past — Japanese edition (Ishinomori) (ゼルダの伝説 神々のトライフォース) — by Shotaro Ishinomori. From Era 2 — Western Originals in the Zelda Manga Gallery.

The crossing-back object: the American comic’s Japanese book edition — and it kept the US left-to-right reading direction, a Japanese book that reads "backwards" because it began life as an American comic.

English sources routinely claim this edition was never released in Japan. It was — Mangapedia documents the edition and its ISBN (correction C-11).

The same story, other editions: A Link to the Past (Viz) · A Link to the Past — Viz reissue (Ishinomori) · 4Koma Manga Ōkoku #1 (A Link to the Past) · 4Koma Manga Gekijō, vol. 6. The Himekawa A Link to the Past manga, in the Library.

Shown here at its verified native size, 400×549, the largest honest copy the Library holds for this cover.

No verified back cover has been sighted for this volume yet, so it is shown front-only — SOJ never pairs a front with an unverified back. The hunt for the missing backs continues, and each joins this page when a verified copy surfaces.