Samurai Jack is Cartoon Network's newest hit from the creator of Dexter's Lab. Scholastic is launching with two exciting books -- the story that began his legend, and one all-new adventure.

In the distant past, an evil shape-shifter named Aku has brought destruction upon the land. As the citizens' last hope, a youngster is sent away to train as a samurai warrior. But when he returns as an adult to confront Aku, the warrior finds himself flung into the future, landing in an unknown time and place. There, the locals dub him "Jack" and help him in his heroic quest to return to the past and undo the evil wrought by Aku.

This digest novelization tells the complete Samurai Jack origin story in an exciting, new, graphic-driven way.