Astro Boy Volume 9

Astro Boy Volume 9
Author: Osamu Tezuka
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2016-04-13
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1621155781

Osama Tezuka's Astro Boy is the all-time, 100,000 horsepower champion of classic all-ages robot action! Available for the first time in America, these tales are as exciting, touching, and hilarious as when Tezuka crafted them almost half a century ago! In this volume: Astro Boy tries to foil a mad scientist's plot to use a robotic Cleopatra to recreate the ancient kingdom of Egypt; Astro tries to solve the mystery of a young ghost appearing on 3D TVs; and Astro joins with the robot Cobalt in a race against time to stop a lost H-Bomb from devastating Japan!

Astro Boy Volume 11

Astro Boy Volume 11
Author: Osamu Tezuka
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2016-04-13
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 163008011X

Fifty years after his creation, Astro Boy continues to lead the manga and anime charge, his adventures still as fresh and exciting as when first crafted by master storyteller/cartoonist/animator Osamu Tezuka. In this volume: Astro Boy must help a robot bomb escape his creators and prevent earth from being destroyed; Astro battles a deadly underground tank controlled by an evil general bent on world conquest; a famous police detective enlists Astro to help him solve a murder - with the detective's father as the prime suspect!

Astro Boy Volume 15

Astro Boy Volume 15
Author: Osamu Tezuka
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2020-08-25
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1506724094

Fifty years after his creation, Astro Boy continues to lead the manga and anime charge, his adventures still as fresh and exciting as when first crafted by master storyteller/cartoonist/animator Osamu Tezuka. Astro Boy is packed with action, laughs, and genuine emotion, interlacing fantastic situations with timeless themes and wry observances about technology, war, and the human condition.

Astro Boy Volume 12

Astro Boy Volume 12
Author: Osamu Tezuka
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2016-04-13
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1630080128

With the rapidly expanding explosion of manga and anime, the vast creative and spiritual influence of the late, great Osamu Tezuka is being recognized worldwide, the skill, depth, and humanity of his storytelling placing him among the giants of the comics medium. Astro Boy is the action/adventure archetype for the 21st century, an action-packed roller-coaster ride for all ages imbued with humor, warmth, and wry commentary on humanity in the technological age. In this volume: "Roboid"; "The Eues of Christ"; "Rejuvenating Gas"; and "Space Broadcast."

Astro Boy Volume 10

Astro Boy Volume 10
Author: Osamu Tezuka
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2016-04-13
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1630080101

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 Omnibus Volume 2

Astro Boy Omnibus Volume 2
Author: Osamu Tezuka
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 674
Release: 2016-01-12
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 161655861X

Who will stand against invaders from space, robot slave masters, and a dictator producing human clones? Astro Boy, that's who! The most popular and influential creation of Osamu Tezuka, "the Walt Disney of Japan," Astro Boy is all-ages adventure packed with action, laughs, and a few tugs at the heartstrings. Astro Boy Omnibus Volume 2 is 680 pages of Tezuka's classic manga, value priced and ready to rock the 21st Century! Osamu Tezuka is renowned internationally as a master cartoonist, animator, and storyteller. "Tezuka is widely considered the most important and influential figure in post-World War II Japanese animation." -The New York Times "Comics are a bridge between all cultures." -Osamu Tezuka "The Astro Boy stories always end with peace and human supremacy restored, but usually not before both sides, human and robot, have committed great wrongs." -ANIMERICA

Atomcat

Atomcat
Author: Osamu Tezuka
Publisher: Digital Manga, Inc.
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2013
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1613138040

Reading the “Tetsuwan Atom” (popularized in America as “Astro Boy”) comic book with his dad is Tsugio’s one refuge from merciless school bullies. And even then, without a single friend, Tsugio can’t catch a break. One day he finds an abandoned kitten, and names it after the robot hero to convince his family to keep it. But after a strange encounter with aliens honeymooning on Earth, Tsugio’s shocked to find his cat can speak – and has all of Astro Boy’s powers! Sworn to secrecy, Tsugio and Earth’s tiniest hero find themselves entangled with demonic cats, pirate ghosts, a crime syndicate, and more! Playful, ingenious and appropriate for all ages, Osamu Tezuka’s fresh take on his classic Astro Boy character will charm nostalgic grown-ups and clever kids. As gentle and humane as it is exciting, Atomcat also nurtures a positive outlook for children who might feel like they don’t quite fit in.

The Astro Boy Essays

The Astro Boy Essays
Author: Frederik Schodt
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2011-09-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 161172516X

A tribute to Japan's "god of manga" by his longtime American friend and translator.

Astro Boy and Anime Come to the Americas

Astro Boy and Anime Come to the Americas
Author: Fred Ladd
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786452579

The first generation of American television programmers had few choices of Saturday morning children's offerings. That changed dramatically in 1963 when a Japanese animated television series called Tetsuan Atom was acquired for distribution by NBC. Fred Ladd adapted the show for American television and--rechristened Astro Boy--it was an overnight sensation. Astro Boy's popularity sparked a new industry importing animated television from Japan. Ladd went on to adapt numerous Japanese animated imports, and here provides an insider's view of the creation of an ongoing cultural and media phenomenon.

Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 7

Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 7
Author: Naoki Urasawa
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-01-19
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781421532677

Who Killed Astro Boy? In an ideal world where man and robots coexist, someone or something is after the seven great robots of the world. Interpol assigns robot detective Gesicht to this most strange and complex case--and he eventually discovers that he is one of the targets! Pluto has destroyed six out of the seven great robots of the world, and the pacifist robot Epsilon is the only one that remains. Will Epsilon, who refused to participate in the 39th Central Asian War, leave behind his war-orphaned charges to step onto the battlefield? It just might be that kindly Epsilon, who wields the limitless power of photon energy, will be Pluto's greatest opponent of all!