Samurai Penguin

Issue #1 • Slave Labor Graphics • June 1986

Samurai Penguin #1 launches Dan Vado and Mark Buck's offbeat independent series from Slave Labor Graphics. Set in Antarctica, the story follows a penguin trained in bushido who defends his flock against an alliance of predators.

Written by Dan Vado with art and cover by Mark Buck, this debut issue combines martial-arts adventure with the animal-comic style that became prominent during the mid-1980s independent comics boom.

Issue Details
  • Series: Samurai Penguin
  • Issue #1
  • Publisher: Slave Labor Graphics
  • Published: June 1986
  • Written by Dan Vado
  • Art and cover by Mark Buck
Vault Notes & Reader Notes
  • First issue of the original Samurai Penguin series.
  • One of the early titles published by Slave Labor Graphics.
  • The story centers on a bushido-trained penguin defending his Antarctic flock.
  • Black-and-white interior format with a $1.50 original cover price.

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