Super Mario Adventures

by Kentaro Takemura (Author) Charlie Nozawa (Illustrator)

Super Mario Adventures
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

From the pages of Nintendo Power magazine, a full-color graphic novel inspired by the classic Super Mario Bros. video game franchise!

Super Mario Adventures, inspired by the bestselling Super Mario video game franchise, is a collection of comics that originally ran in Nintendo Power magazine in 1992-93. The peril-plagued Princess Toadstool is kidnapped by the diabolical deadbeat Bowser but super plumbers Mario and Luigi hatch a plan with their new friend Yoshi to rescue her. Are the Super Mario Bros' plans a pipe dream? Can they stop the Koopa King before he forces the Princess to be his bride?! Long out of print, this stunning, full-color graphic novel is now available once again!

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Kentaro Takemura
Kentaro Kawamoto was born in Tokyo in 1960 and attended the Department of Living Design at Kuwasawa Design School. He is a notorious artist, essayist, otaku, and all-around celebrity in Japan. His books include Armageddon and Me and Berabo na Hitobito. Takakuma's painting A Dream-like Plan for the Thomas-ification of JR Chuo-line Locamotives(2000, asrylic on linen on wood panel, 46x35 3/4) appeared as part of the celebrated Superflat art exhibition. His only other manga work published in English is Super Mario Adventures, which originally ran in Nintendo Power magazine and was collected in 1993 into a book of the same name. The long-out-of-print book is once again available in a new edition.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781421588643
Lexile Measure
320
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Viz Media
Publication date
October 20, 2016
Series
Super Mario Adventures
BISAC categories
CGN004120 - Comics & Graphic Novels | Manga | Fantasy
CGN004160 - Comics & Graphic Novels | Manga | Media Tie in
Library of Congress categories
Adventure and adventurers
Japan
Brothers
Graphic novels
Comic books, strips, etc
Cartoons and comics
Comics (Graphic works)
Action and adventure comics
Rescue work
Plumbers
Super Mario Bros. (Game)
Video game characters
Nintendo video games

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