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.