Sabrina the Teenage Witch: The Magic Within 1 (Sabrina Manga) - Softcover

Del Rio, Tania

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936975394 ISBN 13: 9781936975396

Publisher: Archie Comics, 2013

Synopsis

The magic returns like never before in Sabrina the Teenage Witch: The Magic Within!
 
Sabrina Spellman is your average teenager by day, attending Greendale High where her major crush, Harvey, plays for the school basketball team. But by night, Sabrina enters the Magical Realm, where she hones her witchcraft and attends Charm School with the handsome and mysterious Shinji.

Start from the very beginning as Sabrina deals with her two eccentric aunts and her conflicting lives in the Mortal and Magic Realms . . . and stumbles into the beginnings of a plot that will reshape the magical world at its foundation!

Written and illustrated by acclaimed artist Tania del Rio, The Magic Within  collects the first ten issues of Archie's critically praised American manga!

About this title

About the Author:

TANIA DEL RIO has been published in TOKYOPOP's RISING STARS OF MANGA ANTHOLOGY. She worked for Archie Comics as the writer and artist of SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH: THE MAGIC WITHIN graphic novels, an American Manga take on the characters and stories. She also wrote Archie's highly publicized "Reversedale" story and has worked on their JOSIE & THE PUSSYCATS and SONIC THE HEDGEHOG comics as writer and artist. Tania has also written SPIDER-MAN/ARAŅA: THE HUNTER REVEALED for Marvel. She is currently writing the Young Adult Supernatural Fantasy novel WINTER WILDER.

From Booklist:

Though these Archie Comics stories are almost 10 years old, this successful collection is nevertheless fun and engaging, with a long story arc. In this version, Sabrina is a high-school sophomore but on the young side. She’s caught between her crush on a mortal boy and a magical one, the latter of whom disconcertingly appears to be crushing on Sabrina’s best friend. Aside from sweet-and-sour romance, the chapters introduce Sabrina’s legal-guardian aunts, one of whom has political aspirations, and, of course, the wizard turned cat, Salem, who serves as both a comfort and an abrasive companion as Sabrina embarks on mortal and magical adventures ranging from recovering a kidnapped magical creature to waiting for her mortal sweetheart to invite her to the winter ball. The storytelling is well crafted, and the volume ends on a cliff-hanger, as its readers would likely prefer. The art is manga-like but well within the standards a middle-school library can offer students. Grades 6-9. --Francisca Goldsmith

About this edition

• Publisher: Archie Comics
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1936975394
• ISBN 13: 9781936975396
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256