What are the Claymore English editions?
One publisher, twenty-seven volumes, nine years: Viz's Claymore, finished a year after Japan's.
Viz Media issued the first Claymore volume in North America on 4 April 2006 under the Shonen Jump Advanced imprint, and that July, at San Diego Comic-Con, announced a serialization in its Shonen Jump anthology. The last volume arrived on 6 October 2015. The English covers keep Yagi's paintings, as the gallery shows with volume 1. Madman Entertainment published the series in Australia and New Zealand.
VOLUMES 1 TO 9
Viz Media · 2006 to 2007Volume 1 · Silver-eyed Slayer
Viz Media · 4 April 2006 · ISBN 9781421506180.
Volume 2 · Darkness in Paradise
Viz Media · 6 June 2006 · ISBN 9781421506197.
Volume 3 · Teresa of the Faint Smile
Viz Media · 1 August 2006 · ISBN 9781421506203.
Volume 4 · Marked for Death
Viz Media · 3 October 2006 · ISBN 9781421506210.
Volume 5 · The Slashers
Viz Media · 5 December 2006 · ISBN 9781421506227.
Volume 6 · The Endless Gravestones
Viz Media · 6 February 2007 · ISBN 9781421510484.
Volume 7 · Fit for Battle
Viz Media · 3 April 2007 · ISBN 9781421510491.
Volume 8 · The Witch's Maw
Viz Media · 5 June 2007 · ISBN 9781421510507.
Volume 9 · The Deep Abyss of Purgatory
Viz Media · 7 August 2007 · ISBN 9781421510514.
VOLUMES 10 TO 18
Viz Media · 2007 to 2011Volume 10 · The Battle of the North
Viz Media · 2 October 2007 · ISBN 9781421511825.
Volume 11 · Kindred of Paradise
Viz Media · 4 March 2008 · ISBN 9781421515717.
Volume 12 · The Souls of the Fallen
Viz Media · 1 July 2008 · ISBN 9781421519364.
Volume 13 · The Defiant Ones
Viz Media · 4 November 2008 · ISBN 9781421523378.
Volume 14 · A Child Weapon
Viz Media · 3 March 2009 · ISBN 9781421526683.
Volume 15 · Genesis of War
Viz Media · 3 November 2009 · ISBN 9781421531496.
Volume 16 · The Lamentation of the Earth
Viz Media · 1 June 2010 · ISBN 9781421534152.
Volume 17 · The Claws of Memory
Viz Media · 4 January 2011 · ISBN 9781421537962.
Volume 18 · Ashes of Lautrec
Viz Media · 7 June 2011 · ISBN 9781421539355.
VOLUMES 19 TO 27
Viz Media · 2011 to 2015Volume 19 · Illusions in the Heart
Viz Media · 1 November 2011 · ISBN 9781421540788.
Volume 20 · Demon's Claw Remains
Viz Media · 3 July 2012 · ISBN 9781421542119.
Volume 21 · Corpse of the Witch
Viz Media · 6 November 2012 · ISBN 9781421548807.
Volume 22 · Claws and Fangs of the Abyss
Viz Media · 7 May 2013 · ISBN 9781421552385.
Volume 23 · Warrior's Mark
Viz Media · 24 October 2013 · ISBN 9781421558837.
Volume 24 · Army of the Underworld
Viz Media · 6 May 2014 · ISBN 9781421565491.
Volume 25 · Sword of the Dark Deep
Viz Media · 4 November 2014 · ISBN 9781421573861.
Volume 26 · A Blade from Far Away
Viz Media · 3 March 2015 · ISBN 9781421578668.
Volume 27 · Silver-eyed Warriors
Viz Media · 6 October 2015 · ISBN 9781421581712.
THE BOX SET
The complete objectClaymore Complete Box Set
On 20 October 2015 Viz gathered all twenty-seven volumes, 5,272 pages, into a single box set (ISBN 9781421583167). Its premium is a booklet of black-and-white cover artwork previously unreleased in the English editions: Yagi's paintings stripped to line, sold nowhere else.
Singles or the box
The singles preserve the nine-year rhythm of the release and the first-edition Shonen Jump Advanced printings. The box is the shelf object. Collectors argue both ways; the documentation above is the same twenty-seven books either way.