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Lone Wolf and Cub

Japanese manga series by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
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Lone Wolf and Cub is a Japanese manga series written by Kazuo Koike and illustrated by Goseki Kojima. It was serialized in Futabasha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Manga Action from September 1970 to April 1976, with its chapters collected in 28 tankōbon volumes. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential manga series of all time, spawning various adaptations including six films, four plays, and a television series.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 1976—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Lone, Wolf and Japanese can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as japanese manga series by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lone Wolf and Cub” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.