Black Jack, Volume 2
  • Published: 15 December 2008
  • ISBN: 9781934287286
  • Imprint: Vertical Inc
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $32.99
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Black Jack, Volume 2

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Black Jack is recognized as Osamu Tezuka's third most famous series, after Astro Boy and Kimba, the White Lion.

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 exorbitant fees for his services, the proceeds from which he uses to fund environmental projects and to aid victims of crime and corrupt capitalists. But because Black Jack keeps his true motives secret, his ethics are perceived as questionable and he is considered a selfish, uncaring devil. The Black Jack series is told in short stories. Each volume will contain 16-20 stories, each running approximately 20-24 pages in length.

Black Jack is recognized as Osamu Tezuka's third most famous series, after Astro Boy and Kimba, the White Lion.
  • Published: 15 December 2008
  • ISBN: 9781934287286
  • Imprint: Vertical Inc
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

About the author

Osamu Tezuka

Osamu Tezuka (1928-89) is the godfather of Japanese manga comics. He originally intended to become a doctor and earned his degree before turning to what was then a medium for children. His many early masterpieces include the series known in the U.S. as Astro Boy. With his sweeping vision, deftly interwined plots, feel for the workings of power, and indefatigable commitment to human dignity, Tezuka elevated manga to an art form. The later Tezuka, who authored Buddha, often had in mind the mature readership that manga gained in the sixties and that had only grown ever since. The Kurosawa of Japanese pop culture, Osamu Tezuka is a twentieth century classic.

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Ode to Kirihito
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Praise for Black Jack, Volume 2

"There's manga and then there's manga. More explicitly, there's manga and then there's Osamu Tezuka....Tezuka more or less invented the form as we know it....It's a mark of his artistic singularity that almost 20 years after his death, we are still playing catch up with his achievements." --Newsweek

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