Shuriken Team-Up

Reggie Byers self-published comic about the Japanese-American martial artist Kyoko Shidara, who is tired from working as a bodyguard for a criminal organization (The Organization) and decides to become a freelance bodyguard instead. In one of her assignments , she meets his brother Koji after many years and discovers that he has became a assassin for hire for the yakuza. She tries to talk with him and get him out of that life. The story is continued in Blade of Shuriken, published by Eternity.

Eternity takes over the publishing of Reggie Byers pioneering English-language manga comic featuring Martial-arts expert Kyoko Shidara aka Shuriken. This miniseries continues from Shuriken (1986), an depicts Kyoko Shidara in his new work as bodyguard for the mayor of Philadelphia. She meets her aunt Oka again (who is fleeing from a mysterious assailant) and fights the local maffia (who tries to kill the mayor). The series is followed by Shuriken Team-up and Shuriken Cold Steel.

First Issue published by Imperial Comics. Issues 2 and 3 published by Malibu, through the Eternity Imprint. Lt. Katsu is a cop in Japan. In his line of work he sees everything from rapists to robbers, but he has never seen anything like this! First zombies rose from the dead and began attacking innocent people. Eventually Lt. Katsu and his Ninja friends defeated the zombies, but then he discovered that his boss, Captain Tanasa, had other even more dastardly plans in store for him. Battle to the Death ran three issues in the late 1980s. It’s a comic that had everything: rock and roll, samurai, intrepid rogue cops, zombies, even aliens.

A new young superhero has appeared in the city: Libra! Dale, the son of the previous Libra wants to have fun using his superpowers and enjoying his few minutes of fame. However, reality kicks in and his series was cancelled after one issue. Libra appeared in a crossover with Shuriken in Shuriken Team Up and disappeared forever after that.

A new mini series for Shuriken. Shuriken, a former assassin turned freelance adventurer, was an early entry in both the Amerimanga and warrior woman trends that would explode over the next few decades. Following the events of Blade of Shuriken, unemployed and broke, Kyoko Shidara, aka Shuriken, takes a job with Danger Temps, basically a temp service for bodyguards. It sounds like a good idea at the time; but she is going to fight crazy vigilantes and a major terrorist organization (S.P.E.A.R.), who threatens all America. Meanwhile, Kyoko's mental state is tested. The storyline is followed in Hellbender and Shuriken(1991).