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In the novel-length 'The Greatest Robot on Earth,' a wealthy sultan creates a giant robot to become the ruler of all other robots on Earth. x 7-in., 208 pages, B&W.Ī timeless comics and animation classic, Osamu Tezuka' Astro Boy is still going strong nearly half a century after its creation, and Dark Horse brings Tekuza's original Astro Boy manga to America for the first time in an English-language edition. Schodt, renowned for his work on Ghost in the Shell and for his books on Japan, including Manga! Manga! In this volume, Astro Boy comes to the aid of Gravia's robot president to prevent his overthrow at the hands of a secret anti-robot society a robot magician is cloned as a setup to start a movement against intelligent robots, and only Astro Boy can expose the conspiracy and Astro Boy defends a powerful robot race car from an evil gang in the globe-spanning Equator Race! Astro Boy is an all-ages delight, as fresh, exciting, and innovative today as when it was created forty years ago. Dark Horse brings the original Astro Boy manga to America for the first time in an English-language edition, translated by Frederick L. x 7-in., 224 pages, B&W.Īs Mickey Mouse is to American animation, so to anime and manga is Astro Boy, the quintessential creation of Osama Tezuka, one of the world's revered giants of comics and animation.

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Published for the first time in America! Dark Horse proudly presents another of the crown jewels of international graphic fiction - Astro Boy!Ĭreated by the late Osamu Tezuka, a revered animator and cartoonist - who created over 150,000 pages of comics in his career! - and considered the Walt Disney of Japan, his Astro Boy was the first manga series to be adapted to animation and became a worldwide phenomenon, making Astro Boy the Mickey Mouse of anime - a jet-powered, super-strong, evil-robot-bashing, alien-invasion-smashing Mickey Mouse, that is! Exciting, whimsical, and touching, Astro Boy hearkens back to the classic era of comics and animation, featuring stories that readers young and old will enjoy.ĭon't miss the opportunity to experience this landmark series, never before available in America, each volume featuring over 200 pages in an affordable and convenient pocket-sized format as currently collected in Japan! If you use the 'Add to want list' tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.