MONTHLY HALLOWEEN 1992 #3 Junji Ito's "Back Alley" Original Printing

Monthly Halloween was an iconic shojo horror manga magazine that spawned many copy-cats and spinoffs. It's the first magazine that published Junji Ito when he submitted his work to a contest. This issue features the original printing of Junji Ito's classic "Back Alley" story!

Like all monthly manga magazines, these phone book size tomes were often recycled after being read, making them particularly hard to find, especially 30 years after the fact. There is really no comparison state-side to these massive books. Besides being incredible objects on their own, a level of aesthetic perfection is achieved with the blasted out printing production. Some of the more popular pieces would later be "nicely" reprinted in collections, but the immediacy of the saturated newsprint gives the first printings of these morally questionable stories the presentation they deserve, unhinged and on the brink of self destruction.

Used copy, the binding is a bit tight with age, but all in all this copy is in great shape.