Hokuto no Ken Special: All About the Man

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Hokuto no Ken Special: All About the Man (北斗の拳SPECIAL ALL ABOUT THE MAN) is a one-issue magazine published by Shueisha on September 5, 1986. It is a special edition of Weekly Jump dedicated exclusively to Hokuto no Ken and served as the first authorized guide to the series. The cover price was 390 yen. The guide covered up to the end of the Raoh story arc.

The content includes stickers, color illustrations, mini-posters, a showcase of the gory villain deaths, interviews with Buronson and Tetsuo Hara, a gallery of opening pages, a reprint of the first Hokuto no Ken pilot, Kenshiro's personal data, character profiles for all the major fighters, a list of secondary characters, a list of known vital points and a look at Tetsuo Hara's pre-Hokuto no Ken work.