M1: Monster Racing League collects its opening Tokyo street-racing arc

The first paperback gathers Robert Windom and Jae Lee’s opening four issues.

M1: Monster Racing League has its first collected edition on Image Comics’ October 21 release list. The 112-page paperback gathers issues one through four of the science-fiction racing series written by Robert Windom and drawn by Jae Lee. The story follows Dev, a seventeen-year-old who moves to Japan and discovers an

underground street-racing scene. In its near-future Tokyo, mutation influences competition as much as speed. That premise places the series between a coming-of-age story and a transformed version of illegal motorsport, rather than a conventional racing championship. Lee also supplies the collection’s covers. Image

lists a US cover price of $14.99 and ISBN 9781534347687, giving readers a way to distinguish the paperback from the monthly issues. The timing creates a clear reading boundary: the first collection stops at issue four, while issue five appears on the same week’s new-release list. Readers beginning with the paperback

can therefore identify exactly which earlier chapters it includes before deciding whether to continue in singles. Official source. Image credit: Image Comics; cover by Jae Lee.

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