1st comic ever:  G.I. Joe Special Missions #7
1st Manga ever:  Ghost in the Shell #1 (Dark Horse)
1st ever Japanese-style book (American) Robotech: Genesis #2
-- 
Chris DiNote, aka Dino
SMD Publications Inc.,
....and from the introduction to The Grace of Great Things:   
     "Creativity is dangerous.  We cannot open ourselves to 
      new insight without endangering the security of our 
      prior assumptions.  We cannot propose new ideas without 
      risking disapproval and rejection.  Creative 
      achievement is the boldest initiative of mind, an 
      adventure that takes its hero simultaneously to the rim 
      of knowledge and the limits of propriety.  Its pleasure 
      is not the comfort of the safe harbor, but the thrill 
      of the reaching sail."

"All other writers be sure to be taking lessons...
Start talkin' trash and I come with my Smith and Wesson" 
(by "Sublime";  sorta)