JAPANESE EDITION / VOLUME 01
Mazinger Z
Go Nagai / 1973
BEFORE THE COLLECTION, THE STORY
What’s the story?
Koji Kabuto inherits a gigantic robot made from an extraordinary alloy: Mazinger Z. Learning to pilot it means deciding how to use power that can protect or destroy. Doctor Hell’s machines turn that family inheritance into the beginning of a war between people and mechanical monsters.
THE BOOK AT A GLANCE
The starting point.
Volume 1 / PhotographsSwipe to explore
Front with dust jacket
Back with dust jacket
Front without dust jacket
Back without dust jacket
Colophon · first edition
Five views supplied by the community. AI was used to remove the background in the first four images; the colophon is the original, unedited photograph. It records the first edition of 28 February 1973.
First edition · colophon
1973年2月28日 初版発行
- Author / creators
- Go Nagai
- Publisher
- Shueisha
- Imprint
- Jump Comics
- Catalogue ISBN
- Not available for this edition
- Printed price
- ¥250
- First-print obi
- Without obi
- Original title
- マジンガーZ
- Format / pages
- Shinshoban · 203 pages
Original 1973 Shueisha / Jump Comics edition. The newly supplied colophon reads “1973年2月28日 初版発行”, first edition dated 28 February 1973. The homepage cover is reference artwork separate from the volume photographs.