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Issue Details

Issue #33
Published November 1999
Cover Price 2.95 USD; 4.50 CAD
Pages 28
Editing Diana Schutz

Cover Details - "Pottery"

Characters Miyamoto Usagi
Synopsis Usagi shapes clay into an urn on a pottery wheel.
Genre martial arts; funny animals; period
Pencils Stan Sakai (signed)
Inks Stan Sakai (signed)
Colors Tom Luth (signed)

15 page Usagi Yojimbo story "A Potter's Tale"

Characters Miyamoto Usagi; Mikasa Toyozo the potter; Haruye; Samo the thief; Merchant Izumoji
Synopsis Samo the thief burglarizes a local merchant, then hides in the pottery shop, pushing a precious jewel into an unfired bowl, then pulling one side down to mark it. The next day the potter finds the deformed bowl, realizes the deformity forms the innovation he was looking for and deforms all of his bowls the same way.
Genre martial arts; funny animals; period
Script Stan Sakai
Pencils Stan Sakai
Inks Stan Sakai
Letters Stan Sakai

8 page Usagi Yojimbo story "The Missive"

Characters Katsuichi-Sensei; Shunji; Jotaro; Young Usagi (flashback only)
Synopsis Bound by a debt of honor to someone who defeated him in battle, Usagi sends a letter to his old fencing teacher, asking him to consent to a match with Nakamura Koji, an old enemy of the aged teacher.
Genre martial arts; funny animals; period
Script Stan Sakai
Pencils Stan Sakai
Inks Stan Sakai
Letters Stan Sakai

1 page Usagi Yojimbo Letters Column letters page "Many Believe"

Synopsis In lieu of letters, Stan Sakai relates his inspirations and historical references involved in writing the first story. Then he relates a story that led to the second story's inspiration.
Script Stan Sakai
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover