Usagi Yojimbo #3 (1989) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

Identification plate

Series: Usagi Yojimbo (Fantagraphics, 1987 series)
Issue: #3
Publication date: July 1989
Key date: July 1989
Indicia publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Price: $10.95; 13.50 CAD
Pages: 156
Barcode: 978156097009551095
ISBN: 1-56097-009-X

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Stan Sakai; inks: Stan Sakai	Miyamoto Usagi
2	Usagi Yojimbo Book Three	credits, title page	1
4	Usagi Yojimbo Book Three	credits, title page	3	pencils: Stan Sakai; inks: Stan Sakai	Miyamoto Usagi
6	Introduction	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	script: Robert L. Asprin
8	Chapter One: The Tower	credits, title page	1	pencils: Stan Sakai; inks: Stan Sakai; letters: Stan Sakai
10	The Tower	comic story	20	script: Stan Sakai; pencils: Stan Sakai; inks: Stan Sakai; letters: Stan Sakai	Miyamoto Usagi
11	Chapter Two: A Mother's Love	credits, title page	1	pencils: Stan Sakai; inks: Stan Sakai; letters: Stan Sakai
13	A Mother's Love	comic story	20	script: Stan Sakai; pencils: Stan Sakai; inks: Stan Sakai; letters: Stan Sakai	Miyamoto Usagi
14	Chapter Three: Return of the Blind Swordspig	credits, title page	1	pencils: Stan Sakai; inks: Stan Sakai; letters: Stan Sakai
16	Return of the Blind Swordspig	comic story	20	script: Stan Sakai; pencils: Stan Sakai; inks: Stan Sakai; letters: Stan Sakai	Miyamoto Usagi, Zato-Ino
17	Chapter Four: Blade of the Gods	credits, title page	1	pencils: Stan Sakai; inks: Stan Sakai; letters: Stan Sakai
19	Blade of the Gods	comic story	20	script: Stan Sakai; pencils: Stan Sakai; inks: Stan Sakai; letters: Stan Sakai	Jei, Miyamoto Usagi
20	Chapter Five: The Tea Cup	credits, title page	1	pencils: Stan Sakai; inks: Stan Sakai; letters: Stan Sakai
22	The Tea Cup	comic story	20	script: Stan Sakai; pencils: Stan Sakai; inks: Stan Sakai; letters: Stan Sakai	Murakami Gennosuke, Groo, Miyamoto Usagi
23	Chapter Six: The Shogun's Gift	credits, title page	1	pencils: Stan Sakai; inks: Stan Sakai; letters: Stan Sakai
25	The Shogun's Gift	comic story	22	script: Stan Sakai; pencils: Stan Sakai; inks: Stan Sakai; letters: Stan Sakai	Miyamoto Usagi, Lord Noriyuki, Tomoe Ame
26	Epilogue: Turtle Soup and Rabbit Stew	credits, title page	1	pencils: Stan Sakai; inks: Stan Sakai; letters: Stan Sakai	Usagi Yojimbo [Miyamoto Usagi]; Leonardo
27	-	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	script: Stan Sakai
28	Turtle Soup and Rabbit Stew	comic story	6	script: Stan Sakai; pencils: Stan Sakai; inks: Stan Sakai; letters: Stan Sakai	Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Miyamoto Usagi, Raphael
30	The Usagi Library	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset
31	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Stan Sakai; inks: Stan Sakai	Miyamoto Usagi

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Third Printing	See the GCD record for identification notes.
Fifth Printing	price 16.95 USD; barcode 978156097009551595
Second Printing	See the GCD record for identification notes.
Fourth Printing	price 15.95 USD; 22.95 CAD; barcode 978156097009551595
Sixth Printing	See the GCD record for identification notes.
Seventh Printing	price 16.99 USD

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / Usagi Yojimbo #[nn] ISBN 9781684051991	2017	On eBay ›
Usagi Yojimbo/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Complete Collection #[nn] ISBN 9781506709505; 1506709508	2018	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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