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STORY AND ART BY VUKITO KISHIRO HCRDBANGCR'S BALL Race 1: Face of Evil/Touch of Cruelty 5 BCD ZONC Race 2: Fight Like the Wind 79 CARRY ON THC DftCAM Race 3: Tradition 103 OUTSIDCR Race 4: Mystery Dance 133 BBS MAGNA Race 5: The Ultimate Art 159 This volume contains BATTLE ANGEL ALITA PART THREE issues m through #13 in their entirety. STORY AND ART BY YUKITO KISHJRO English Adaptation/Fred Burke & Toshifumi Yoshida Touch-Up Art & Letter ingA/va vie Truman Cover DesignA/iz Graphics Editors/Trish Ledoux & Annette Roman Assistant Editor/Toshifumi Yoshida Managing Editor/Satoru Fuji! Executive Editor/Seiji Horibuchi Publisher/Keizo Inoue Firs! published as Cunnm by Shueisha, Inc. in Japan ffl 1995 Yukito Kishiro/Shueisha, Inc. BATTLE ANGEL ALITA is a trade- mark of Viz Communications, Inc. All righis reserved. No unauthorizec reproduction allowed. The stories, characters, and incidents menlicnei in this publication are entirely fictional. 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