Weekly Shonen Jump 1997 No.39 ONE PIECE Chapter 5 Kuina First Appearance BOY For Sale

JAPAN VINTAGE AUTHORITYWeekly Shonen Jump 1997 No.39 — ONE PIECE Chapter 5, the First Appearance of Kuina, Sixth Week of the SeriesShueisha • cover date September 8, 1997 • ONE PIECE chapter 5 「海賊王と大剣豪」: Zoro\'s childhood and Kuina • BOY cover and lead color by Haruto Umezawa • original newsstand printingONE PIECE CHAPTER 5 — 1997KUINA FIRST APPEARANCEORIGINAL 1997 PRINTINGVERY GOOD — SEE CONDITIONSHIPS FROM JAPAN

Weekly Shonen Jump 1997 No.39: the sixth week of ONE PIECE, with chapter 5, 「海賊王と大剣豪」 (The Pirate King and the Great Swordsman) — the chapter that tells Zoro\'s childhood and introduces Kuina, the rival whose sword he still carries. ONE PIECE is billed on the cover\'s side strip.

The cover and lead color go to BOY by Haruto Umezawa (the New Series banner is for BOY\'s return); Hoshin Engi, Rurouni Kenshin, Yu-Gi-Oh!, JoJo Part 5 and I\"s run inside.

First-year ONE PIECE issues are the most collected Jump of the 1990s and the single-digit chapters are the scarcest: chapter 2 (No.35) sold in July for $299 and $342.

Condition in one line: Very Good — complete, colours bright, light toning only. Full details below.

Peace of mind: every photo in this listing is of the exact copy you will receive. Want another angle, or a closer look at the colophon, the spine or the page edges? Ask via message before you buy and we will send it.

TitleWeekly Shonen Jump (週刊少年ジャンプ) 1997, cover date September 8, 1997 (No.39) — ShueishaEditionOriginal newsstand printing. Not a reprintKey contentONE PIECE chapter 5 by Eiichiro Oda — first appearance of Kuina, Zoro\'s backstory. BOY cover and lead color by Haruto Umezawa. Hoshin Engi, Rurouni Kenshin, Yu-Gi-Oh!, JoJo Part 5 insideLanguageJapaneseFormatWeekly magazine, softcover, newsprint interior, approx. 18 x 26 cmConditionVery Good — see the Condition shipping from Japan with full tracking, rigid waterproof packagingCONDITION — Very Good — bright, complete 1997 copy

Graded on our S / A / B / C scale as A- (Near Fine) from the supplier\'s photographs of this exact copy.

What the photos show

• Front cover: complete, colours bright; faint rubbing at the corners and edges.
• Back cover and spine: clean, issue number and date legible; spine square.
• Page block: tight, light even toning to the edges, as on every copy of this age.
• Not stated by the supplier: odour, writing or loose pages. If our inspection finds any, we will tell you before shipping.

Supplier grade, quoted in full

The Japanese supplier, a registered secondhand bookseller in Osaka, grades the copy 「やや傷や汚れあり」 (some scratches or soiling) and writes — a used copy with some scratches, soiling and age-related deterioration. The five photographs (front, back, spine, two angled views of the page block) are of this exact copy.

If anything on this page does not match what we find when the copy is in our hands, we will tell you before we ship and refund in full if you prefer.

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