Osamu Tezuka
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Dark Horse proudly presents one of the crown jewels of manga--Astro Boy! Created by the late Osamu Tezuka, a revered animator and cartoonist (who created over 150,000 pages of comics in his career!) considered the Walt Disney of Japan, 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...
2) Dororo
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Omnibus edition ; second American edition.
Language
English
Description
"A samurai lord has bartered away his newborn's organs to forty-eight demons in exchange for dominance on the battlefield. Yet the abandoned infant survives thanks to a medicine man who equips him with prosthetics--lethal ones with which the wronged son will hunt down the multitude of demons to reclaim his body one piece at a time and confront his father. On his journeys the hero encounters an orphan child who claims to be the greatest thief in Japan...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Viz signature edition.
Language
English
Description
"An advocate for robot rights and a renowned European robot have been murdered. Gesicht, the detective assigned to the case, has deduced that the killer is targeting the great robots of the world - which means that he too is one of the targets. Gesicht takes it upon himself to warn the potential targets, and Atom, the famous boy robot from Japan is next on his list."--P.[4] of cover.
4) Black Jack
Author
Pub. Date
[2008-]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Black Jack is a mysterious and charismatic young genius surgeon who travels the world performing amazing and impossible medical feats. Though a trained physician, he refuses to accept a medical license due to his hatred and mistrust of the medical community's hypocrisy and corruption. This leads Black Jack to occasional run-ins with the authorities, as well as from gangsters and criminals who approach him for illegal operations. Black Jack charges...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Viz Signature edition.
Language
English
Description
"In this daring reinvention of "The Greatest Robot on Earth" story arc from Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy series, the world is a place where humans and robots coexist. The lives of the seven great robots of the world--Atom, Mont Blanc, North No. 2, Brando, Hercules, Epsilon and Gesischt--are turned upside down into a virtual garden of terror filled with carnage and destruction. A killer is after them, but what exactly is his motive? The story intensifies...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Viz Signature edition.
Language
English
Description
"Pluto-- Sahad-- Goji-- Abullah-- Mysterious figures somehow involved with the serial murders of the great robots of the world. Europol's top robot detective Gesicht has been put on the case, and he's mere steps away from discovering the horrifying truth behind the killer and his motives-- Little does he realize that he's also steps away from discovering a horrifying truth of his own-- Masterfully crafted science fiction and suspense at its best!"...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Viz Signature edition.
Language
English
Description
"The seven great robots of the world are being destroyed one after the other, and the former members of the politically charged Bora Survey Group are also being targeted. Could Professor Tenma, the man who created the Japanese boy robot Atom, hold the key to finding the killer and his motive? The latest developments in the investigation send shock waves throughout the world in this masterful work of science fiction and suspense" -- from publisher's...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Viz Signature edition.
Language
English
Description
"The seven great robots of the world are being destroyed one after the other, and the former members of the politically charged Bora Survey Group are also being targeted. Could Professor Tenma, the man who created the Japanese boy robot Atom, hold the key to finding the killer and his motive? The latest developments in the investigation send shock waves throughout the world in this masterful work of science fiction and suspense" -- from publisher's...
12) Dororo: 1
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"A young swordsman's hunt for the demons who stole his body parts and the tale of his little thieving friend"--P. [310]
Author
Series
Pluto volume 001
Pub. Date
[2023?]
Edition
Viz Signature edition.
Language
English
Description
In a world where man and robots coexist, the powerful Swiss robot Mont Blanc has been destroyed. Elsewhere a key figure in a robot rights group is murdered. The two incidents appear to be unrelated ... except for one very conspicuous clue -- the bodies of both victims have been fashioned into some sort of bizarre collage complete with makeshift horns placed by the victims' heads. Interpol assigns robot detective Gesicht to this most strange and complex...
15) Astro Boy
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in futuristic Metro City. When a brilliant scientist's young son dies, he secretly creates a powerful robot boy he names Astro Boy. Unable to fulfill the grieving man's expectations, Astro Boy embarks on a journey in search of acceptance. Along his way he experiences betrayal and a netherworld of robot gladiators, before he returns to save Metro City and reconcile with the father who had rejected him.
16) Astro boy
Language
English
Description
Story of a young robot boy modeled after the son of a research scientist. This atomic-powered robot becomes a reluctant superhero who fights for justice and peace, for humans and robots alike.
Author
Series
Black Jack volume 3
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Black Jack chronicles the travails of an enigmatic surgeon-for-hire who is more good than he pretends to be" -- p. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Black Jack volume 4
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Black Jack chronicles the travails of an enigmatic surgeon-for-hire who is more good than he pretends to be" -- p. [4] of cover.
20) Metropolis
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In the industrial, tri-level world of Metropolis, Duke Red is a powerful leader with plans to unveil a highly advanced robot named Tima. But Duke Red's violent son Rock distrusts robots, and intends to find and destroy Tima. Lost in the confusing labyrinth beneath Metropolis, Tima is beginning a friendship with the young nephew of a Japanese detective. But when Duke Red separates the two innocents, Tima's life and the fate of Metropolis are dangerously...
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