Slum Wolf

Tsuge's debut work based on the *Shourui Awaremi no Rei*, an edict which existed in the early days of the Edo period during the reign of shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. It depicts the exploits of a mysterious messenger, Hakumen Yasha, who saves people suffering due to the evil law. 

(Source: Kodansha, translated and edited) 

***Note:** Includes a prologue.*

The story follows “Wandering Wolf”, it puts two men under the same awning as they wait for a storm to pass. They meet as strangers, only for the younger of the pair—a criminal on the run—to realize that the other one is “Kamikaze Sabu,” a brawler he admired in his youth. 

(Source: The Comics Journal) 

*Note: the first chapter was published in the June 1976 issue of Yagyo. The second chapter was published in the September 1976 issue of Garo.*