Zelda archivist & campaigner for 20+ years. Art, books, manga, the retro & rare. Into Zelda? You've likely experienced my work but not my name: Melora She/Her
This is cool! We never knew about this Zelda: AoL art outside of Japan bc there's only 2 places it's found: A Famimaga & the special edition collection for that issue archive.org/details/zine... & no one had scanned them. But this manga artist who wrote a manga-guide knew archive.org/details/zeld...
I've 2400dpi scanned the first of the "lost" chapters of the very first Zelda manga series. This would have been volume 3 for AoL but it was never published in book form, it can only be found in the monthlies & before now we only had scanned xerox copies: archive.org/details/zine...
Thanks to some awesome sleuthing work we've figured out this piece was mislabeled in the official Art and Artifacts artbook. It wasn't done for a 1994 re-release, it's actually from a 1987 Nintendo Calendar. Which means it's a piece from 1986: likely done along with other original Zelda 1 game art.
I'm really behind on posting stuff people have done & sent in! Like these unseen-until-recently color pages from the very first Zelda manga that were repaired so incredibly beautifully by Olga twitter.com/chaosdrifter93
Find them all here: www.flickr.com/photos/histo...
After decades all 4 volumes of the LttP "Oath of Riruto" Zelda manga are finally in English! This is one of the wildest off-shoots of the series: drawn by a DBZ fan artist turned actual series production artist. Head here to find the scanlation links! historyofhyrule.blogspot.com/2024/01/tran...
I didn't realize the full volume may not have been online: This is where the German Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time comics are from but there's also an interview in there as well. I did some rough 600dpi scans to get it to someone and will do better scans later. Enjoy! archive.org/details/zine...
New, & repaired, scans of the Light & Dark World maps from Zelda: A Link to the Past. I love these because they make the disconnected regions appear seamless.
From The Triforce of the Gods World Guidebook, 1992 | ゼルダの伝説, 神々のトライフォース, ワールドガイドブック Full scans here: archive.org/details/zeld...
I found & 2400dpi scanned something I wasn't sure I'd ever be able to see: The color pages for the 1st Zelda manga ever. The Legend of Zelda by Ran Maru, Wanpakku Comics June 1986. They're honestly beautiful. There's also a link to a complete translation: historyofhyrule.blogspot.com/2023/12/scan...
