Super Manga Blast! #48

Two cats — a sleepy-eyed orange tabby lounging in the foreground and a wide-eyed white cat perched on the stairs behind it — make for an unexpectedly charming cover on this packed 128-page Dark Horse anthology. Inside (according to the cover teasers), readers can look forward to chapters of Club 9, Shadow Star, Cannon God Exaxxion, Seraphic Feather, and Electric Babyland, among other series. For $5.99 in 2004, this was a genuinely generous sampler of manga variety, all wrapped in one of the more quietly delightful covers the series produced.