Lone Wolf and Cub Omnibus Volume 12

The bloody road to hell ends here! The final confrontation between the Lone Wolf rōnin Ōgami Ittō and Retsudō Yagyū is finally at hand, as the two ultimate swordsmen face off in a titanic struggle for the ages to settle their scores once and for all--and determine the fate of the Lone Wolf's Cub, little Daigoro!

Created by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, Lone Wolf and Cub has sold over a million copies of its first Dark Horse English-language editions, and this acclaimed masterpiece of graphic fiction comes to an epic conclusion in this larger-format, value-priced omnibus edition.

The acclaimed classic by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima with cover by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley was an Eisner and Harvey Award winner and sold over one million copies of the original Dark Horse series!Kazuo Koike is a prolific Japanese manga writer, novelist and entrepreneur. Early in Koike's career, he studied under Golgo 13 creator Takao Saito and served as a writer on the series. Koike, along with artist Goseki Kojima, made the manga, Lone Wolf and Cub, and Koike also contributed to the scripts for the 1970s film adaptations of the series, which starred famous Japanese actor Tomisaburo Wakayama. Koike and Kojima became known as the "Golden Duo" because of the success of Lone Wolf and Cub. Another series written by Koike, Crying Freeman, which was illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami, was adapted into a 1995 live-action film by French director Christophe Gans. The author lives in Tokyo, Japan.