Street Fighter (Brazilian comics)

The Brazilian Street Fighter comics (called Super Street Fighter II between issues 6 and 13) were a semi-regular comic series distributed by publisher Escala between 1994 and 1996.

History
In 1994, Escala held the Brazilian distribution rights for the Malibu Comics series based on Street Fighter. Since it was cancelled with only three issues, however, the publisher attempted to carry on by licensing Masaomi Kanzaki's manga of the game. When these negotiations fell through, an in-house team led by editor Marcelo Cassaro decided to work on the series, even continuing the numbering, which meant that these comics started with issue 4 rather than issue 1.

After #5, Cassaro stepped down and appointed Alexandre Nagado as his replacement. Nagado's first order of business was to entirely disregard the Malibu canon and create a new story from scratch, based on Super Street Fighter II, which was out at the time, its Turbo update having been recently released. The publication carried on with successive stories and story arcs, as well as a special edition with three self-contained stories, until issue #20 in 1996, the second of an unfinished three-part series centered around Akuma.

Throughout its publication, the stories' canon drew mainly from the games, with a few liberties taken, i.e. some elements of Ryu's character were incorporated form his Street Fighter II V incarnation, such as his first fight with Guile. Also, while character designs had an original, manga-inspired look at first, the creative team would later incorporate the Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie designs to the characters.

Issues

 * #4: Shows Fei Long's backstory. A backup feature, made in the style of the Malibu series, tells a story of how Guile mastered the Sonic Boom (using the old canon version, which said came from an accident during a test flight, instead of him having been taught by Charlie).
 * #5: Shows Cammy's backstory. The backup feature hints at a sequence to the events in the American comics, where Ryu and Chun-Li discuss Ken's fate and she mentions his corpse had disappeared, hinting at him having survived.
 * #6-8: Battlefield: The first of the original Brazil-made stories, is an adaptation of Super Street Fighter II, involving the new Street Fighter tournament.
 * #9-10: The Phantom Agent: Chun-Li and Cammy team up to defend a scientist from a shape-shifting assassin.
 * #11-13: The Spheres of Power: A break from the traditional format, the story centers around two extra-dimensional sorcerers, Sasha and Kiran, recruiting the Street Fighters for a tournament to decide the next in line to rule their realm.
 * #14-16: Death Island: Guile is shot down by unknown assailants and presumed dead, while some of the other Street Fighters deal with a growing threat: the underground syndicate Shadow Law, risen from Shadaloo's ashes (note: while Shadowlaw is the original Japanese name for Shadaloo, the writers adapted it as a new name, since this name change was not made in the SFII Animated Movie, which saw release during the time of publication).
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 * #19-20: Akuma: Tells the tale of the presumably demonic fighter who travels the world brutally defeating opponents. Characters from the Street Fighter Alpha series make appearances here. The third part was never published due to the title's cancellation.