July 1990 Pt.9 Manga Round-up overview

We still had a few on-going Manga comic-books and Anime based comic-books that still could be found “On the racks” in your local independent Comic-Book shop or store, in July of 1990.  

Such as:-

#22 of 'AKIRA' (1-38)

#35 of 'Lone Wolf and Cub' (1-40)

from First comics,

#19of Outlanders. (1-33)

from Dark Horse Comics.

#1 of 2001 Nights (1-10)

#6 of COBRA (1-12)

#8 of 'Baoh', (End of 1-8)

#5 of HOROBI: Part One (1-6)

from Viz Comics.

GRAPHIC-NOVELS ON SALE IN THIS MONTH:

The Legend of Kamui – the Island of Sugaru #1

from Viz Comics.

GRAPHIC-NOVELS STILL ON SALE IN THIS MONTH:

What's Michael?

Appleseed Book #1

Dirty Pair – Biohazards

from Eclipse Comics

LUM Vol #1

The Legend of Kamui – the Island of Sugaru 1 of 2.

from Viz Comics.

[Note: You still had Issues of Lensman (now Galactic Patrol #1 July 1990 (1-5) , 'Leiji Matsumoto's Captain Harlock', 'Robotech II – The Sentinels Book One'  (1-16), Robotech II The Sentinels The Malcontent Uprisings (1-12)  from Eternity Comics. on the shelves as the printing and overseas delivery were not always every month.]

[Note: Was there any more issues of Shuriken Cold Steel after  issues 1 to 6 by Reggie Byers & Neil Vokes (Kyoko Shidara ?) that finished in February of 1990 from Eternity Comics?]

June 1990 Pt.4 Manga Round-up \ overview

We still had a few on-going Manga comic-books and Anime based comic-books that could be found “On the racks” in June of 1990, such as:-

from Epic comics,
#21 of 'AKIRA' (1-38)

from First comics,
#34 of 'Lone Wolf and Cub' (1-40)

from Dark Horse Comics.
#18 of Outlanders. (1-33)
#2 Black Magic (1 – 4)










from Viz Comics,
#5 of COBRA (1-12)
#7 of 'Baoh', (1-8)
#4 of HOROBI: Part One (1-6)

from Eclipse Comics,
#8 Cyber 7 Book two (8-17)











GRAPHIC-NOVELS STILL ON SALE IN JUNE:

from Eclipse Comics,
What's Michael?
Appleseed Book #1
Dirty Pair – Biohazards
              
from Viz Comics,
LUM Vol #1                              









And you still had from Eternity Comics,
#5 of Lensman (1-5)
#4 of 'Leiji Matsumoto's Captain Harlock',
#15 of 'Robotech II – The Sentinals Book One'












[NOTE:As it says “on the shelves”, via the printing, but as overseas delivery was not always every month to the UK guaranteed for each issue.]

About this Blog (Post 80)

Working as a part-time Anime Fandom historian, transferring written questionnaires (and trying group interesting data together), scanning Magazines, and manga comic-books, and those few surviving pen-pal letters from the late 80's and early 90's. All to be re-read and correlated chronology, and to see what statements of that time can be used as testimonials, to give a seance of what new and existing time it was, when cartoon were not just kids shows, and Black & White comic-books had a new cinematic feel to them for an older reader.

What tasks I set myself, can of course lead me away from uploading on a regular basis, as I'd hoped to give a month-by-month view of what it was like back in the day.

At times when you get immersed in the past when reading these old letters, and after 25 years or more have gone bye, the temptation to explore the internet to re-connect with old pen-pals does take you to the side once and a while, what stopped me in my tracks was the discovery that a Anime pen-pal had died 18 years ago (1999) on the Isle of Wight at the young age 27, I only had a few letters spanning two years (1990 & 1991) that had survived in my collection, but the overwhelming feelings of loss, of a fellow pioneer, and the time that had already passed bye this was October 2016. I was already struggling with the self-promoting idea of my own part in the spread of Japanese pop culture in the UK entitled Birth of a Fan Club   and an aversion to writing had sunk in.

By December of 2016 my attentions had moved to the information that my job after 11 years was to be made redundant, and later that month my son was admitted to hospital with the discovery of a very serous heart condition. Six months on and I have re-discovered the joy of collecting the past, a few Manga comic-books at a time, scanning, dating and cataloging in the hope of uploading to a future Blog post, or other medium for content.

Now diving back into the past.....

Area88 and Mai the Psychic Girl

Area 88 ran for 42 Biweekly issues (2 per month) from May of 1987 to February 1989.

Mai the Psychic Girl ran for 28 issues Biweekly (2 per month) from May of 1987 to June 1988.

GREY and BAOH

Grey ran for 9 monthly issues from August 1988 to April 1989.

Baoh ran for 8 monthly issues from December 1989 to July 1990.

JUSTY and Appleseed 

Justy ran for 9 Biweekly (2 per month) issues from December 1988 to April 1989.

Appleseed ran to 20 issues from December 1988 to November 1991, 4 books each had 5 parts.

With American imports to the UK those smaller complete runs of 8 to 9 issues could be easily missed, or even later forgotten about.

About this Blog (post 76)

Much of my free time has been spent in the last few months taking photos and scanning Pen-Pal letters, Fanzines and manga (sometimes stretching from '90 to '92 or even taking the Chronology further in to the future from the past) to record what is left of my collection of mainly 80's and 90's Anime and manga memorabilia, as well as adding to them for cataloguing. I still hope that by tackling the past on a month by month basis an over-all picture will emerge from my observations and recollections, and from the written word.

Blog updates as follows

A small piece of information regarding Convention Video room listings has come to light.

Update to Con Video room 

More information on Robotech in the England has been pieced together.

Update to ROBOTECH 

Finding the lost manga of BAOH

 Update on Manga of Baoh

 

The May of 1990 onwards was when I was having treatment for Cancer of the tongue, both Radiotherapy and later surgery and is to this day difficult to write about, and think about that time of my life.

My continued scanning of private Anime Pen-Pal letters (many of whom I have lost touch with over these past 20 to 25 years - writting as of August 2016), to help track how events unfolded in the infancy of the UK's Anime & Manga Fandom has again taken up my time in more ways than one. As I am transported back in time rereading them, I am once again immerse the excitement, hope, and discovery of like-minded people exploring what Japanese animation had to offer, making it all so fresh in my mind 26 years later!

Spending snippets of time when I can, to use the World Wide Web and the Internet to try and reconnect with old friends, I had not prepared myself for the possibility of them no longer being alive. This has taken me aback, and emotional and personal feelings have come forth and slowed my progress in typing this record of the early days of the Fandom as I reflect this.

 You may also see this link from time to time, these pages will be under construction, but accessible !

Birth of a Fan Club  

May 1990 Pt.5 Round-up \ overview

We still had a few on-going Manga comic-books and Anime based comic-books that could be still found “On the racks” in May of 1990, such as:-

#20 of 'AKIRA' (1-38)

#33 of 'Lone Wolf and Cub' (1-40)

from First comics,

#17 of Outlanders. (1-33)

from Dark Horse Comics.

#6 of Dominion. (End of 1-6)

from Eclipse Comics.

#4 of COBRA (1-12)

#6 of 'Baoh', (1-8)

#3 of HOROBI: Part One (1-6)

from Viz Comics.

GRAPHIC-NOVELS STILL ON SALE IN THIS MONTH:

What's Michael?

Appleseed Book #1

Dirty Pair – Biohazards

from Eclipse Comics

LUM Vol #1

from Viz Comics.

[Note: You still had #2 of Lensman

#4 of 'Leiji Matsumoto's Captain Harlock',

#15 of 'Robotech II – The Sentinals Book One'

from Eternity Comics.

March 1990 Pt.6 Manga round-up

We still had a few on-going Manga comic-books and Anime based comic-books that could be still found “On the racks” in March of 1990, such as:-

#15 of Outlanders.

from Dark Horse Comics.

#5 of Appleseed: Book3, (End of Book3)

#6 of 'Cyber 7: Book Two',

#5 of Dirty Pair II, (End of DP II)

#4 of Dominion.

from Eclipse Comics.

#2 of Lensman

#4 of 'Leiji Matsumoto's Captain Harlock',

#15 of 'Robotech II – The Sentinals Book One'

from Eternity Comics.

#2 of COBRA

#6 of Crying Freeman: Part One

#4 of 'Baoh',

#1 of HOROBI: Part One

from Viz Comics.

GRAPHIC-NOVELS ON SALE IN THIS MONTH:

What's Michael?

from Eclipse Comics

[Note: You still had some of the issues of 'Lone Wolf and Cub' from First comics, and 'AKIRA' from Epic Comics, on the shelves as the printing and overseas delivery were not always every month.]

March 1990 Pt.6 Manga round-up

We still had a few on-going Manga comic-books and Anime based comic-books that could be still found “On the racks” in March of 1990, such as:-

#15 of Outlanders.

from Dark Horse Comics.

#5 of Appleseed: Book3, (End of Book3)

#6 of 'Cyber 7: Book Two',

#5 of Dirty Pair II, (End of DP II)

#4 of Dominion.

from Eclipse Comics.

#2 of Lensman

#4 of 'Leiji Matsumoto's Captain Harlock',

#15 of 'Robotech II – The Sentinals Book One'

from Eternity Comics.

#2 of COBRA

#6 of Crying Freeman: Part One

#4 of 'Baoh',

#1 of HOROBI: Part One

from Viz Comics.

GRAPHIC-NOVELS ON SALE IN THIS MONTH:

What's Michael?

from Eclipse Comics

[Note: You still had some of the issues of 'Lone Wolf and Cub' from First comics, and 'AKIRA' from Epic Comics, on the shelves as the printing and overseas delivery were not always every month.]

January 1990 Pt4.

The Trip to London also cemented a relationship with a Jpanese bookshop, at the side of Saint Paul's cathedral (Books Nippon).

We still had a few on-going Manga comic-books and Anime based comic-books “On the racks” in January of 1990, such as:-

#4 of 'Cyber 7 Book Two', and

#2 of 'Dominion' from Eclipse comics;

#4 of   'Leiji Matsumoto's Captain Harlock', and

#14 of 'Robotech II – The Sentinals Book One' from Eternity Comics;

#31 of 'Lone Wolf and Cub' from First comics;

#17 of 'AKIRA' from Epic Comics. 

#2 of 'Baoh' from Viz Comics.

  

[Note: AKIRA number #17 (not #14), and BAOH number #2 are the corect issues for January. 1990]

[Note: All publication dates are taken from published Comic-books and their adverts from my own collection, as well as doing the maths for the issues that I'm missing.]

Lost Manga from the 80's Pt. 25

Baoh. Written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. Viz Comics, published in a monthly format for a total of #1 - 8 issues, from December 1989 to July 1990, English adaptation by Fred Burke & Wayne Truman. Originally published and serialised in Shueisha's Weekly Youth Comic Magazine “Shōnen Jump” from 1984 to 1985. 

Doress is a secret and most sinister organisation’s company laboratory are in the process of bio-engineering a new lifeform not unlike a parasitic worm or leach code named 'Baoh', that protects its host from hostilities as the threat levels increase so does its countermeasures (this I would think would haveMilitary applications, well for those who could afford it). Doress's unknowing test subject is the teenage Ikuro Hashizawa the first human bio-weapon to be crated by having Baoh inserted in to his brain, but wouldn’t you know it Ikuro escapes with the help of  

a kidnapped 10 year old girl Esper (psychic powers) called Sumire, before the weapon is fully tested. Enraged at the escape of company's property, Doress's head scientist Professor Kasuminome wants the bio-weapon destroyed and if possible the girl recaptured. Other experimental bio-weapons, assassins, and hunters are sent out after Ikuro\Baoh thus provoking lethal responses (I would list Baoh's Bio enhancements, but that would deprive you of the discovery of them)!

[Note: In 1989 the same year that Viz published the English translation of Baoh, was when Toho released Studio Pierrot's single OVA of “Baoh - Raihousya”.]

[Note: For its time Hirohiko Araki's 'Baoh' manga had a lot of well depicted gore in its violent scenes that Western readers may not have been accustom to.]

[Note: Italy’s “Yamato Video” number 1, was a doubt version of “Baoh” released in 1991 and could be bought for 39.000 Lira.]

[Note: I have either misplaced or lost my Viz 'Baoh' comics (as of writing this 1^st. January 2014), I'll see if they can be found or replaced.]

[Note: Now having found and bought issues of 'Baoh', and only missing numbers, 2 & 7 I can add more pictures. (as of writing this on the 22^nd, July 2016).]

[Note: It is now May of 2021, and I have completed the 8 issue set of BAOH. ebay prices were getting quite high, and I paid £14.98 for issue 7.]

[UPDATE: Collection of issues 1 to 8 now complete.]

BAOH.

Issues 1 to 8.

[ Hirohiko Araki Wrote Baoh: The Visitor (バオー来訪者 Baō Raihōsha, October 9, 1984 – February 12, 1985), then in 1986..... started writing "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure".]

[What follows, are snap-shots of the Japanese Volume, taken at the  Kyoto Manga Museum  on Saturday 20th. June 2026.]

[Translations, may be of interest... ]