Award-winning comics creator Stan Sakai celebrates his fiftieth Dark Horse issue of the samurai adventure Usagi Yojimbo with a thrilling story that finds his brave and heroic rabbit warrior dead at the hands of Yakuza thugs!

Miyamoto Usagi has often made brash decisions to confront danger against difficult odds for all the right reasons, but this time his valiant attempt at heroism may be his last! Sympathetic to the plight of a his misguided acquaintance, the street performer and petty thief Kitsune, Usagi steps between Kitsune and the Yakuza thugs that he has just cheated.

Usagi was only recently coming to terms with his rash decision-making problem. Now it seems like he's only got a "ghost" of a chance to achieve that greater depth of patience he has long sought.

Writer/artist Sakai was unwilling to give away any details about this strange and compelling chapter in the Usagi Yojimbo mythology, but he did have this to say: "This issue sets up the next when Usagi's avenging ghost goes after the ruthless yakuza chief."

Usagi Yojimbo #50 is a groundbreaking chapter in Sakai's award-winning, ten-year ongoing adventure series. This black-and-white, 24-page adventure premieres July 18 from Dark Horse Maverick.