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 love these so much too, it was one of my biggest personal wants: to be able to find better versions of the pages than the old copies someone had made
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...
Japanese wall calendar. If you can find a US version that would be pretty killer! Everyone I asked hadn't seen it before & then a Japanese fan found it. I'd never seen the art outside of A&A/HG & I hyper obsess/hunt the old art (never collected much merch though)
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I would love that so much. A version that looked like this would be incredible. Link and Zelda art so cute here and Ganon is actually fleshed out. This is basically the only early, true, depiction of him that we have in an illustration
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
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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...
OMG, you are just awesome, will-do, I haven't collected a lot of US or EU art yet so there might be something. (I think I have both a physical copy and the digital. I know I have the pdf thanks to you 👍❤️ Most of my books are in storage right now though so I have a hard time recalling all of them)
Oh, that would be dope! I found the volume on archive.org but the scan not the best for art. Thank you!! (I didn't know about that magazine either and it was so much fun going through because the art in it is such a perfect time capsule)
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...
