When and what was the first manga series sold in the United States?

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Manga made their way only gradually into U.S. markets, first in association with anime and then independently.[53] Some U.S. fans were aware of manga in the 1970s and early 1980s.[54] However, anime was initially more accessible than manga to U.S. fans,[55] many of whom were college-age young people who found it easier to obtain, subtitle, and exhibit video tapes of anime than translate, reproduce, and distribute tankōbon-style manga books.[56] One of the first manga translated into English and marketed in the U.S. was Keiji Nakazawa's Barefoot Gen, an autobiographical story of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima issued by Leonard Rifas and Educomics (1980–1982). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga Sep 26 09, 9:29 PM