Golgo 13, Vol. 8
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (816 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1421509636 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 184 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Takao Saito was born in Osaka on November 3, 1936. Ten years younger than Osamu Tezuka (Phoenix, Adolf: A Tale of the Twentieth Century), Saito grew up reading him as part of Japan's own first postwar generation of manga fans. Leed was itself an early pioneer of the American manga market, in 1986 releasing its own four-volume English-language edition of Golgo 13 graph
And once he accepts a contract, it is always honored.A true professional, GOLGO13 is an expert marksman familiar with most of the world's military hardware and master of several of the more lethal Oriental matial arts. Without allegiance to any group, cause, or nation, he follows his own personal code when choosing "jobs". A world class hit man, the ultimate Professional fulfills contracts under the alias of "GOLGO13". Victims, they never know what hit them.. Fluent in at least thirteen languages, GOLGO13 is able to slip in and out of even hostile nations without detection
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In the 1950s and 60s, however, Saito and his peers such as Yoshihiro Tatsumi (The Push Man & Other Stories) began to find an artistic voice of their own, creating adult-oriented graphic novels and magazine stories for the gekiga ("drama pictures") movement, whose name set itself apart from "manga"--a term then still associated only with works suitable for children.Gekiga style gradually made itself respected within the manga industry as a whole, and by 1965 Takao Saito was well-known enough to be asked to create the authorized manga adaptation of Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels, an experience that prepared him well for Saito's own creation, Golgo 13, a ruthless secret agent out not for his country, but for himself: a reflection of the darkening era of Vietnam, political assassinations, and Watergate. Ltd, which continues today to put out