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28 May 2012

KANA – the *ORIGINAL* G.I. NINJA

by Keith Rainville | posted in: 2 - Books and Manga | 3

It was August of 1981, a few months before Enter the Ninja would kick off the outright “boom.” The word “ninja” wasn’t a household term yet, but between Shogun on TV, Eric Van Lustbader (The Ninja was already a bestseller) and Andrew Adams’ … Continued

80s comics, E.R. Cruz, G.I. Combat, KANA, Murray Boltinoff, Robert Kanigher

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