Snap up the Super Mario Comics Series for less than $10

Delightful Super Mario Adventure Comic Collection Amazon sells for just $9.47 ($17), the best price we've seen in years. The 112-page paperback is filled with full-color artwork and glossy covers, with Mario and Luigi in front of him, and on his Koopa clown car, the microphone holds the microphone and sings before he writes his shattered toadstool princess.

Inspired by the classic Mario platformer of NES and SNES, namely Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World, 13 comics in the series were originally featured in Nintendo Power in 1992-93.

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Viz Media acquired some rights to Nintendo Power Mario Comics and packaged it in 2016 as a trade paperback. Just like the original run, Super Mario Adventures has proven to be very popular. Over the past eight years, it has received at least 14 prints.

The first 12 chapters form a graphic novel centered on graphic novels – you guessed it – Bowser pursues marriage to Princess Toadstool (peach) and rule over the mushroom kingdom. Since the comics were written by Kentaro Takehuma in the early 1990s, Bowser got his seven children, the koopalings. Today, Bowser Jr. Roy, Morton, Lemmy and the rest of his siblings are just seven of his minions.

There is a reward Chapter 13 called Mario vs. Wario. According to Super Mario Land 2, this interesting aspect story follows revenge caused by Wario's childhood resentment against Mario. One cool aspect of the comic is that Mario meets several bosses who only appear in Game Boy's Mario Land 2, which includes three little Pigs, a sewer rat and an octopus.

Like most things related to Super Mario, these comics are written for young readers, but those adults who read Nintendo Power and love classic Mario games may appreciate Charlie Nozawa's charming illustrations.

Nintendo Power has also published comics based on other iconic franchises and games, including The Legend of Zelda: The Past Links. This 12-part graphic novel originally appeared in a 1992 magazine. Like Super Mario adventures, Viz Media reprinted the series in a trade paperback. Links to past graphic novels remain print in the decade after their first publication. 196 pages, full color paperback is priced at $16.89 ($20) on Amazon.

Both franchises have also been adapted from comics. Most of Mario's comic series are not translated into English, but you can try the Zany series Super Mario Comics Mania. This 160-page paperback includes various chapters from the long-running Super Mario-Kun series.

Zelda fans have More comics to choose from. The original 10 volumes of Zelda comics feature a handful of Link adventures adaptations. You can get The full legend of the Zelda Manga Box, set as a trade paperback for $51 ($105) On Amazon. VIZ Media also published Advanced Legend Editioncollected in a $72 ($125) box set that is a treasure chest. If you love Zelda: Twilight Princess, the comic reimagined is in a 11 volumes, more than 2,000 page boxes Last fall.