The Strange Cat Girl

This is a rare work that serves as the origin of Neko Musume, a character from the Kitaro series. The rental manga volume originally published by Midori Shobo in 1958 was completely reprinted in 2008.

A man's wife wife is preparing for the birth of her baby scheduled for next day, however, he does not have a penny to support the family. He decides to kill a black cat to sell his fur, but upon returning home, he finds his wife dead on the floor. Upon burying her, he realizes that his wife, even dead, went into labor and her baby is born crawling out of the grave. The husband sees it's a girl, give her the name Midori and takes to create it. As she grows up, he realize she might be a cat monster...