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Among adult readers in Japan
Black Jack is Osamu Tezuka’s most popular achievement,
and perhaps the most close to the creator’s heart, as Tezuka
considered entering the medical field—majoring in medicine
in college—before devoting his life to comics. Black Jack
is a genius surgeon who never acquired his license due to his
clashes with the medical establishment. He is hired out by anyone
willing to pay his exorbitant rates and is perceived as a heartless
rogue because of his enigmatic nature and antisocial manner. But
as readers will soon discover, that is not the whole story.
Vertical, Inc. will release
the Black Jack episodes in the order that Tezuka indicated
for a hardcover “Deluxe Edition” planned before his
untimely death in 1989 at the age of 60. Two earlier volumes of
translations were released in 1998-99, but featured only 17 episodes
of the nearly 250 that Tezuka created.
Each 300-page volume of the
Vertical, Inc. series will feature a dozen-plus stories, most
published in English for the first time. The Vertical volumes
will also embody the high production standards that readers have
come to expect, not only from the publisher’s Tezuka output,
but also its line of Japanese pop fiction.
Click
here for a free preview.
RETAILERS:
Contact info@vertical-inc.com
for
information on how to obtain this
18" x 24" promotional poster.
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