The Fiend with Twenty Faces and the Shōnen Detective Club | Yukio Izumi | Cover #2

Media : Pencil and ink on paper
Size : 23,5 x 36,2 cm
Very good condition

Published in Tanoshii Yonensei (1960) and reissued by Apple Box in 2004

Amazing Yukio Izumi cover from his Shōnen Detectives manga series. The Shonen detectives are a group of young under the leadership of famous detective, Kogoro Akechi.

Kogoro Akechi is a detective character created by the infamous Japanese mystery writer Edogawa Ranpo.

Yukio Izumi, as a mangaka, was very popular and can be found in almost all major publications between 1957 and 1974. He started his career in rental Manga (1957) and evolved into the mangazines such as Shōnen Gaho, Manga King, Adventure King, Shōnen King, Ribbon etc

The presence of robots in his stories is almost unavoidable, his titles read like pure sci-fi and always appeal to the imagination; Decisive Battle in the Sky, Tank Boy, Space Rocket War, Majutsushi and the Boy Detectives.