Editing Lone Wolf and Cub (section)

====North America====
''Lone Wolf and Cub'' was initially released in North America in a translated English edition by [[First Comics]] in 1987.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2009-12-01|title=Lone Wolf and Cub Part 1: History and Influences|url=https://www.popmatters.com/116502-lone-wolf-and-cub-part-1-history-and-influences-2496129407.html|access-date=2020-11-06|website=PopMatters|language=en|archive-date=November 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109032056/https://www.popmatters.com/116502-lone-wolf-and-cub-part-1-history-and-influences-2496129407.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The monthly series of comic-book-sized issues featured covers by [[Frank Miller (comics)|Frank Miller]], [[Bill Sienkiewicz]], [[Matt Wagner]], [[Mike Ploog]], and Ray Lago. Sales were initially strong but fell sharply as the company went into a general decline.{{Citation needed|date=November 2020}} First Comics shut down in 1991 without completing the series, publishing less than a third of the total series over 45 issues.

Starting in September 2000, [[Dark Horse Comics]] began to release an English translation of the full series in 28 smaller-sized trade paperback volumes with longer page-counts (from 260 to over 300 pages), similar to the volumes published in Japan. Dark Horse completed the presentation of the entire series, fully translated, with the publication of the 28th volume in December 2002. Dark Horse reused all of Miller's covers from the First Comics edition, as well as several done by Sienkiewicz, and commissioned Wagner, [[Guy Davis (comics)|Guy Davis]], and [[Vince Locke]] to produce new covers for several volumes of the collections. In October 2012, Dark Horse completed the release of all 28 volumes in digital format, as part of their "[[Dark Horse Comics#Dark Horse Digital|Dark Horse Digital]]" online service.