Venus Wars "Hiro" = Vuinasu Senki

Tokyo: Gakken, 1989. Deluxe edition; first ed. thus. One quarto volume in white, color-illus jacket; 500p, chiefly b&w illus; some full-color plates, map. Fine in very good(+) lightly-soiled & edge-worn jacket; housed in archival mylar. in very good + dust-jacket. Paperback.

In Japanese. Gakken NC-019 Deluxe. "In the year 2003, a titanic collision between an immense ice asteroid and the planet Venus transforms Earth's closest neighbor into a habitable world. Eighty years later, two colonial powers, Ishtar and Aphrodia, glare at each other across a contested frontier. The militaristic Ishtar, hungry for Aphrodia's rich resources, has developed a supertank known as the Octopus to spearhead its assault force. Unable to face Ishtar's industrial might head on, Aphrodia counters with the Hound--a high-performance antitank battle cycle designed to outmaneuver the massive tanks and strike their weak points. The war won't wait and the fate of all Aphrodia is in the hands of Hiro Seno, a suicidal motorcycle daredevil!--Based on description from Manga / Comic books, strips, etc. -- Japan. Graphic novels -- Japan. Space colonies -- Comic books, strips, etc. War -- Comic books, strips, etc. Science fiction comic books, strips, etc. Japanese comic books, strips, etc. War. Science fiction comic books, strips, etc. Graphic novels. Comic books, strips, etc. Space colonies. / Science fiction comics. Graphic novels. Comics (Graphic works) Comic books, strips, etc. -- Japan. Manga. Science fiction comics. Graphic novels. Comics (Graphic works)