TV foodie Anthony Bourdain has cooked up another first — his first graphic novel, “Get Jiro!,” about a sushi chef with a bent for casual murder, debuted at No. 1 on the best-seller list in its first week.

Bourdain, a lifelong comic-book freak, told reporters, “It’s a life’s dream come true” to have a hit on his first try.

He describes the story as “set in near-future LA, where warring clans of chefs with differing ideologies slaughter each other in the streets.”

“Jiro,” released last week, beat two Batman books to take the top-spot in the graphic novel list.

Bourdain has been trying a number of new ventures in recent months — including a game show with British TV chef Nigella Lawson set to debut next summer on ABC and jumping from the Travel Channel to CNN, also next year.

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