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Lone Wolf and Cub is a landmark samurai manga created by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima in 1970, following an assassin and his toddler son in feudal Japan.
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How many volumes of Lone Wolf and Cub are there?
Lone Wolf and Cub spans 28 tankōbon (collected volumes) in its original Japanese edition, comprising over 8,000 pages of story. The series was created by writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima and was serialized in the manga magazine Manga Action from 1970 to 1976.
What is the story of Lone Wolf and Cub about?
The series follows Ogami Ittō, the former Shogun's executioner (Kogi Kaishakunin), who is framed for treason by the Yagyū clan and forced to wander feudal Japan as an assassin for hire. He pushes his toddler son Daigoro in a baby cart along the 'Demon's Way,' having given the child a choice between a ball (to join his mother in death) and a sword (to walk the path of vengeance)—Daigoro chose the sword.
Were there film adaptations of Lone Wolf and Cub?
Yes, the Lone Wolf and Cub film series (also known as the 'Baby Cart' films) starred Tomisaburō Wakayama as Ogami Ittō and ran to six films from 1972 to 1974. The first film, 'Sword of Vengeance' (Kozure Ōkami: Kowokashi udekashi tsukamatsuru), was directed by Kenji Misumi.
What works were influenced by Lone Wolf and Cub?
The series had a major impact on Western comics—Frank Miller, who created cover art for the First Comics English-language edition in the late 1980s, cited it as an influence on his work including Daredevil and Sin City. The 2002 graphic novel 'Road to Perdition' by Max Allan Collins is a direct homage set in Prohibition-era America.
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