MONTHLY HALLOWEEN 1990 #9 Junji Ito "Deserter" Original Printing! Basket Case Cover!

The EXTREMELY RARE BASKET CASE ISSUE OF MONTHLY HALLOWEEN! Featuring the original printing of Junji Ito's classic "Deserter" story!

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 has some cosmetic issues, so even though it is extremely rare it is priced accordingly.

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, one of the photo spreads has some wrinkling from storage. there is spine and cover wear. All pages intact, but the binding is worn.