A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of crime lord "Papa" Dino Golzine, Ash has forsaken the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him, but "Papa" can't simply let him go - not when the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into his insatiably ambitious hands.

Eiji Okamura, a young photographer from Japan, has made Ash's acquaintance, just in time to fall with him into this bloody whirlpool! Now the Chinese Lee syndicate has delivered Ash, Max Lobo, Ibe and Dr. Alexis Dawson to Papa Dino. "Banana Fish" has been used to brainwash Shorter Wong and manipulate him into mutilating Eiji right before Ash's very eyes!

BANANA FISH © 1987 Akimi Yoshida/ Shogakukan, Inc.