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Spiegelman's father in Auschwitz, Jews as mice and Nazis as cats; the only comic with a Pulitzer.

Neo-Tokyo, biker gangs and a psychic child; Otomo's six volumes the film only sketched.

Major Kusanagi and Section 9 in Shirow's dense cyberpunk pages, with footnotes.

Miyazaki's seven-volume manga of the toxic jungle and the princess who understands it; darker than the film.

A disgraced executioner pushes his son across Edo Japan in a cart of hidden blades.

Guts, the Band of the Hawk and the Eclipse; Miura's dark fantasy, unfinished at his death.

Goku from a boy with a tail to the Saiyan wars; the manga every shonen descends from.

Luffy and the Straw Hats chase the One Piece across 100-plus volumes; the best-selling comic ever.