Issue Description

With the Metropolis animated feature a critically-acclaimed must-see, and with the upcoming Sony Astro Boy film readying for 2003 release, the works of Osamu Tezuka are being enthusiastically discovered and re-discovered by American audiences. Tezuka is the unquestioned creative wellspring for the modern anime and manga industries, the influence of his genius now pervading popular culture around the globe, and Astro Boy is the quintessential Tezuka work -- innovative, exciting, hilarious, and even heartbreaking. Few works of graphic fiction -- or any fiction, for that matter -- offer so much fun and humanity that appeals to so many different ages. In this volume: Astro battles the mighty (and really BIG!) Garon; Astro must solve "The 100 Million Year Old Crime;" and Astro is stolen!

Astro Boy (2002)

Publisher

Dark Horse Comics

Volume Description

This was the first ever English-language version of Astro Boy. The stories are adapted from the original Japanese version but with the artwork flipped so it read from left to right for the Western readers. It was Frederik L. Schodt who translated the stories into English and it was Schodt who came up with the English name for Astro Boy.

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