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Obadiah tells the full story of acquiring Lone Wolf and Cub at the 1985 ABA convention with an unconventional pitch (no money offer; just confidence), the marathon Chicago contract meeting, and his subsequent trip to Japan where he ate live octopus as an act of business hospitality. He reveals that the book's actual Japanese circulation far exceeded First's advertised figure of 6 million — the original weekly serialization totaled 252 million copies — and teases an upcoming full-color Japanese graphic novel from a world-famous Japanese creator targeting a summer 1988 release.