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Ten years ago, they took him. He doesn't know who. For ten years he has been confined in a private prison. He doesn't know why. For ten years his only contact with the outside world has been a television set and the voices of his jailers. In time, he lost himself. He changed . . . transformed himself into something else . . . something hard . . . something lethal. Suddenly one day, his incarceration ends, again without explanation. He is sedated,...
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Deciding that he must know the truth, the man who calls himself "Yamashita" follows a trail of clues that lead him back to the mysterious building where he was imprisoned and kept incommunicado for ten years. There, with the help of violence and a brutal imagination, he will try to find answers to the questions that haunt him. However, he will discover that his opponent will not yield to him so easily, and that his ordeal is far from finished.
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The deadly game of cat-and-mouse continues! Imprisoned for a decade without trial or explanation - and then released just as unceremoniously - and now armed with a cell phone that his former torturer has provided for him, will Goto be able to hunt down the truth behind his decade in hell, or will he become even more his tormentor's plaything? No doubt, Goto's adversary still has a few surprises in store, and if Goto wants answers, he'll have to fight...
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Suki is captured by the Fire Nation and brought to the Boiling Rock, a grim prison in the middle of a dormant volcano. Separated from Team Avatar and her Kyoshi Warrior sisters, she decides to build her own community among other prisoners. But it's going to take more than an encouraging word to build trust among so many frightened people. Suki will need to draw on all her resources to do it, and even that might not be enough.--
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"In Linette Moore's debut, middle-grade graphic novel, The Prisoner of Shiverstone, eleven-year-old Helga Sharp is found unconscious in a drifting rowboat near the coast of Utley Island. Utley, as Helga finds out when she awakens in the hospital, is forbidden territory: it's a prison island to which the Mainland has exiled troublesome mad scientists for generations. Helga is questioned by the island's guards and though they're suspicious of her story,...
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Graphic Planet
Pub. Date
[2024]
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1 online resource (32 pages) : chiefly color illustrations.
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English
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Provides a fictional graphic novel story about Hurricane Katrina that follows US Marshal Bill Reese on the day of the hurricane as he tries to capture an escaped convict who fled when their car was flooded. Contains a list of questions and facts, a glossary, and a link to online resources.
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Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2015]
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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In a future just a few years down the road in the wrong direction, a woman's failure to comply with her patriarchal overlords will result in exile to the meanest penal planet in the galaxy. When the newest crop of fresh femmes arrive, can they work together to stay alive or will hidden agendas, crooked guards, and the deadliest sport on (or off!) Earth take them to their maker?
A feminist send-up of the exploitation film genre that takes place in...
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First Second
Pub. Date
2014.
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First edition.
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GN 510L
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222 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"Zita the Spacegirl has saved planets, battled monsters, and wrestled with interplanetary fame. But she faces her biggest challenge yet in the third and final installment of the Zita adventures. Wrongfully imprisoned on a penitentiary planet, Zita has to plot the galaxy's greatest jailbreak before the evil prison warden can execute his plan of interstellar domination!"--Publisher's web site.
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Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
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Viz Media edition.
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208 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
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English
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Framed for the brutal murders of his classmates by the mysterious Red Man, middle school student Ganta Igarashi finds himself sentenced to death and sent to the bizarre and fatal theme park/prison that has risen from the ruins of the Great Tokyo Earthquake--a hell on earth known as "Deadman Wonderland." With their leader captured, Scar Chain's uprising is thwarted by the Undertakers. Ganta seeks training so he can learn to use his Branch of Sin powers,...
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2014
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Viz Media edition.
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187 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
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English
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"Ganta's desperate struggle for survival continues as the second round of the Carnival of Corpses kicks off, but when he is matched against Minatsuki, Ganta learns that his new friends are not what they seem--and it may cost him his life! Yo, having infiltrated Ward G, trespasses into the ring and reveals that Minatsuki is his sister. Although memories of Ganta's childhood friend, Shiro, return to him when he needs it the most, his savior may prove...
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Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2014, c2007.
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Viz Media edition.
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210 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
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English
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"Framed for the brutal murders of his classmates by the mysterious Red Man, middle school student Ganta Igarashii finds himself sentenced to death and sent to the bizarre and fatal theme park/prison that has risen from the ruins of the great Tokyo earthquake--a hell on earth known as 'Deadman Wonderland.' The inmates of this insane penitentiary fight for survival every day to provide entertainment for the masses, and terrifying secrets lurk in the...
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Viz Media
Pub. Date
2014, c2007.
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Viz Media edition.
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180 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
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English
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"Falsely accused of murdering his classmates and sentenced to death in Deadman Wonderland, Ganta begins to learn more about life inside the prison walls. Upon hearing that the Red Man, the strange being that killed his friends, is in the G ward, Ganta heads there seeking answers--and revenge. Instead he finds a mysterious man who calls him 'Woodpecker.'" -- Page [4] cover.
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Marvel Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2019]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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English
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"Captain America: wanted for murder! Accused and in custody, Steve Rogers has become a captain of nothing. With no costume, with no shield, and trapped behind bars with a thousand villains and killers who'd like nothing more than to see him dead, Steve fights back--and he can do it all day! But as the Power Elite makes its play, who stands with Cap A? A prison riot is the best possible cover to break Steve out of confinement, but what if he doesn't...
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VIZ Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Viz Media edition.
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198 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
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English
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"Ganta and Shiro finally face off against each other inside a collapsing Deadman Wonderland. Shiro speaks of her past and how she's been wishing for Ganta to kill her. Ganta asks her why she killed his friends, but Shiro just pleads with him to make her wish come true. In the end, Ganta cannot bring himself to do it, and so the final battle begins." --
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Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
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174 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
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English
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Thanks to Ganta returning to the battle, Senji narrowly escapes death battling Toto Sakigami. Still, Toto's power is so overwhelming they remain at a disadvantage. Using a clever strategy, Ganta is able to land a timely strike against Toto, and Senji quickly follows up by slicing him along with the building. Toto is assumed to be crushed to death by the collapsed structure, but is he?
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Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Viz Media edition.
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202 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
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English
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"Despite the loss of their leader, Scar Chain manages to defeat the Undertakers and escape, but Ganta and Shiro stay to fight on. Tamaki, the insane mastermind of Deadman Wonderland, initiates his next plan--the development and deployment of the Ninben, artificially created Deadmen--and Ganta's friend Azami is one of his first test subjects!" -- Page [4] cover.
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Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Viz Media edition.
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204 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
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English
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"Ganta and Warden Makina join forces to prevent Tamaki from gaining control of the Ninben killers. But the KO Unit, made up of the ultimate Ninben, stands in their way. Once hostile toward Ganta, the residents of G-Ward offer their help, but each must fight against their old wounds as well as battle the KO Unit. Ganta's search for the truth is going to cost him, every step of the way." -- Page [4] cover.
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Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Viz Media edition.
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194 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
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English
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"The residents of G Ward band together to confront Warden Tamaki's Ninben, man-made Deadmen created through horrific human experimentation. Ganta's friend Azami has been turned into one of the Ninben during a publicly viewed carnival corpse show and lost her mind. Ganta will do all he can to save her, but at what cost? And if things weren't bad enough already, Ganta's friends desert him as a traitor!" -- Page [4] cover.
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Yen Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
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174 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
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English
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"The past holds everyone in its thrall, and Oz, Alice, Rave, Break, and their acquaintances are no exception, especially as recollections of the tragedy of Sablier elude even those who were present. Indeed, with his own body playing host to Jack Vessalius, the hero of Sablier, the likelihood of Oz escaping the past seems nigh impossible. But given a renewed lease on life by Elliot Nightray--the legitimate heir to the Nightray dukedom, of all people--Oz...
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Yen Press
Pub. Date
©2009.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
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171 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
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English
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"The air of celebration surrounding fifteen-year-old Oz Vessalius's coming-of-age ceremony quickly turns to horror when he is condemned for a sin about which he knows nothing. Thrown into the Abyss--an eternal prison from which there is no escape--Oz meets a young girl named Alice, who is not what she seems. Now that the relentless cogs of fate have begun to turn, will they lead only to crushing despair for Oz, or will Alice provide him with some...