600dpi Scans of Link to the Past Winning Strategy Special by Keibunsha

 Find the full scans here: Link to the Past Winning Strategy Special by Keibunsha

Information for this publication:

• Original Japanese Title: スーパーファミコン必勝法スペシャル ゼルダの伝説 神々のトライフォース
• Machine Translated Japanese Title: Sūpāfamikon hisshō-hō supesharu zerudanodensetsu kamigami no toraifōsu
• Machine Translated English Title: Super Famicom Winning Strategy Special: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
• Artists and Authors:
• Publishers: Keibunsha
• Date Published: January 15, 1992
• Year: 1992
• ISBN or Identifying Numbers: ISBN4-7669-0742-6
• Format: Paperback
• Size: B6
• Page Count: 96 pages.
• Stand-alone or multi-volume: Single Volume
• Country of Origin: Japan
• Translations in Other Languages: None
• Genre: Strategy Guide
• Games: A Link to the Past / Triforce of the Gods / 神々のトライフォース
• Scan size: 600dpi scans of the whole volume.
• ZeldaWiki Page

600-2400dpi Scans of the Link to the Past Winning Strategy Guide by Futabasha

Find the full scans here: Link to the Past Winning Strategy Guide by Futabasha

(I still have to scan the art at 2400dpi but that should be done and uploaded on July 14)

Information for this publication:

• Original Japanese Title: ゼルダの伝説 神々のトライフォース 必勝攻略法
• Machine Translated Japanese Title: Zeruda no densetsu kamigami no toraifōsu hisshō kōryaku-hō
• Machine Translated English Title: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Winning Strategy Guide
• Artists and Authors:
• Map Illustrations: Toshisada Nobehara 延 原 利 定
• Publishers: Futabasha
• Date Published: March 12, 1992
• Year: 1992
• ISBN or Identifying Numbers: ISBN4-575-28155-7
• Format: Paperback
• Size: B6
• Page Count: 207 pages.
• Stand-alone or multi-volume: Single Volume
• Country of Origin: Japan
• Translations in Other Languages: None
• Genre: Strategy Guide
• Games: A Link to the Past / Triforce of the Gods / 神々のトライフォース
• Scan size: 600dpi scans of the whole volume. 2400dpi scans of the art/manga.
• ZeldaWiki Page

600-2400dpi Scans of the Legend of Zelda Handbook

Find the full scans here: The Legend of Zelda Handbook

Information for this publication:

• Original Japanese Title: ゼルダの伝説 ハンドブック [ケイブンシャの大百科別冊]
• Machine Translated Japanese Title: Zeruda no densetsu handobukku [keibunsha no ōhyakka bessatsu]
• Machine Translated English Title: The Legend of Zelda Handbook [Keibunsha's Great Encyclopedia Special Issue]
• Artists and Authors: Manga artist: Iwamoto Matsunori 岩本松徳
• Publishers: Keibunsha
• Date Published: March 28, 1992
• Year: 1992
• ISBN or Identifying Numbers: No ISBN. T1063552250889
• Format: Paperback
• Size: B6. 
• Page Count: 160 pages 
• Stand-alone or multi-volume: Single Volume
• Country of Origin: Japan
• Translations in Other Languages: None
• Genre: Strategy Guide
• Games: The Legend of Zelda (1), The Hyrule Fantasy, ゼルダの伝説, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, リンクの冒険, A Link to the Past / Triforce of the Gods / 神々のトライフォース
• Scan size: 600dpi scans of the whole volume. 2400dpi scans of the art/manga.
• ZeldaWiki Page

600dpi Scans of RPG 4-koma Manga Kingdom Volume 1

Find the scans here: RPG 4-koma Manga Kingdom Volume 1

Information for this publication:

• Original Japanese Title: RPG4コマまんが王国 1
• Machine Translated Japanese Title: RPG 4koma manga ōkoku 1
• Machine Translated English Title: RPG 4-koma Manga Kingdom 1
• Artists and Authors: Anthology. 
• Publishers: Futabasha, Action Comics, G. G. C.
• Date Published: December 28, 1992
• Year: 1992
• ISBN or Identifying Numbers: ISBN4-575-93319-8
• Format: Paperback
• Size: A5. 14.8 x 21.0cm, 5.83 x 8.27 inches
• Page Count: 135
• Stand-alone or multi-volume: I don't know how many there are since I currently assume this is the only volume with Zelda content in it.
• Country of Origin: Japan
• Translations in Other Languages: None Yet
• Genre: 4koma
• Games: A Link to the Past / Triforce of the Gods / 神々のトライフォース
• Other Series: Fire Emblem, Zelda, Ys II, Tengai Makyō II: Manji Maru, Shining Force, Indy the Magical Kid.
• Scan size: 600dpi scans of the whole volume. 
• ZeldaWiki Page

Artists:

• Chapter Illustrations: Soichiro Yanagi 柳草一郎
• One section is by Hiroshi Fuji 冨士宏

Many thanks go to A Traveler for the incredible cataloging work he does for early Zelda publications. His efforts also ensure I have the correct information and text in Japanese.

600-2400dpi Scans of the Link to the Past Official Guide Book, Volumes 1 & 2

Here are the 600dpi scans of the full guide, along with 2400dpi scans of the artwork. 

• Scans of Volume 1 (Green)
• Scans of Volume 2 (Red)

Information for this publication:

• Original Japanese Title: 任天堂公式ガイドブック「ゼルダの伝説 / 神々のトライフォース」 [上]
• Machine Translated Japanese Title: Nintendō kōshiki gaidobukku `zerudanodensetsu/ kamigami no toraifōsu' [ue]
• Machine Translated English Title: Nintendo Official Guidebook: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past [Vol. 1]
• Artists and Authors: Full credits below.
• Publishers: Shogakukan, Supervised by Nintendo, APE 
• Date Published: January 10, 1992
• Year: 1992
• ISBN or Identifying Numbers: ISBN4-09-104193-0
• Format: Paperback
• Size: B6. 125 x 176 mm or  4.92 x 6.93 inches
• Page Count: 149 pages 
• Stand-alone or multi-volume: 2 Volumes
• Country of Origin: Japan
• Translations in Other Languages: There are some out there (In English) but I haven't looked up the links.
• Genre: Strategy Guide
• Games: A Link to the Past / Triforce of the Gods / 神々のトライフォース
• Scan size: 600dpi scans of the whole volume. 2400dpi scans of the art.
• ZeldaWiki Page

 

Information for this publication:

• Original Japanese Title: 任天堂公式ガイドブック「ゼルダの伝説 / 神々のトライフォース」[下]
• Machine Translated Japanese Title: Nintendō kōshiki gaidobukku `zerudanodensetsu/ kamigami no toraifōsu' [Shita]
• Machine Translated English Title: Nintendo Official Guidebook: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past [Vol. 2]
• Artists and Authors: Full credits below.
• Publishers: Shogakukan, Supervised by Nintendo, APE 
• Date Published: March 10, 1992
• Year: 1992
• ISBN or Identifying Numbers: ISBN4-09-104194-0
• Format: Paperback
• Size: B6. 125 x 176 mm or  4.92 x 6.93 inches
• Page Count: 181 pages 
• Stand-alone or multi-volume: 2 Volumes
• Country of Origin: Japan
• Translations in Other Languages: There are some out there (In English) but I haven't looked up the links.
• Genre: Strategy Guide
• Games: A Link to the Past / Triforce of the Gods / 神々のトライフォース
• Scan size: 600dpi scans of the whole volume. 2400dpi scans of the art.
• ZeldaWiki Page

 

Staff: (Thanks to ZeldaWiki)

Planning & Editing:

• Shigesato Itoi (Ape) (糸井重里(APE))
• Ryo Kagawa (Ape) (加川良(APE)
• Ultra (ULTRA)
• Yutaka Noguchi (野口豊)
• Satoshi Kajiwara (梶原智)
• Junko Fukuda (福田純子)
• Michiko Sugasawa (菅沢美佐子)
• Shigeo Tanabe (田辺茂男)
• Ryuji Ōsawa (大澤竜二)

Cover Design:

• Masaharu Takata (Lucky-Nice) (高田正治(ラッキーナイス))

Book Design:

• Isamu Ishimura (石村勇)

Illustrations:

• Hiroshi Seito (清藤宏)

Photography:

• Orion Press (オリオンプレス)
• PPS Stock Photo Agency (PPS通信社)
• Bon Color Photo Agency (ボンカラー・フォト・エージェンシー)
• Tsuneo Kitamura (北村凡夫)
• Mizuguchi Tetsuji (水口哲二)

Supervision:

• Nintendo (任天堂)

Co-operation:

• Nintendo (任天堂)
• Ape (APE)

Zelda Story Illustration Scans: Shogaku Ichinensei 1992

The First Page of Part 1

You can read this out-of-print publication here:

• Part 1: April
• Part 2: May
• Part 3: June
• Part 4: July
• Part 5: August 
• Part 6: September 

Each of those links has a zip file (in the download section) with the artwork I cleaned up.

Information for this publication:

• Japanese Title: 小学一年生, ゼルダの伝説 リンクの大冒険 
• English Title: Shogaku Ichinensei, The Legend of Zelda, Link's Great Adventure.
• Artist and Author: Junichiro Saito / 斎藤純一郎
• Publishers: Shogakukan / 小学館
• Date Published: 1992: April through September
• Format: Paperback
• Size: I need to measure this
• Page Length: 5 in each part. 30 total.
• Country of Origin: Japan
• Translations in Other Languages: No. Translations Wanted!
• Genre: Illustrated Short Stories
• Games: The Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past / 神々のトライフォース
• Scan size: 2400dpi scans

These are from some almost impossibly-rare children's magazines and I am so excited to finally be able to see good versions of all of them because the art is incredible. They come from Shogokukan's magazine for 1st graders from 1992 and the Link to the Past feature ran from April to September.

I want to thank fellow fan, Sambyu / 旅人, for helping me so much with information on everything.

Linkabel/AbelMunizJr has been collecting them for a while and was incredibly kind when I asked if I could get some photos of them. Then, when they got some time, and a working scanner, they archived what they had for all of us. Eventually I was able to collect them all but I only knew about them originally because of him.