Perhaps you’ve heard the rumors? Felt the buzz? Black Jack is coming! Osamu Tezuka’s most popular creation amongst adults in Japan is setting up his practice with America’s premier publisher of Tezuka manga: Vertical, Inc. The adventures of the unlicensed, but highly-trained maverick surgeon who performs miracles and is scorned by his peers premieres this September in a handsome 288-page paperback volume containing 12 stories, half of which have never been translated in the U.S. Subsequent volumes will appear bi-monthly thereafter, 17 volumes in all, respectfully selected and published in the order Tezuka himself designated in a deluxe version proposed before his untimely death in 1989.
But nearly three months’ wait?! Relax… Vertical feels your pain and certainly doesn’t want any of its faithful Vertical-ites to get sick with waiting before the notorious scalpel-for-hire arrives. Soooo… we’ve provided a special never-before-published-in-the-U.S. preview episode of Black Jack to assuage those jones-ing for an immediate Black Jack panacea. Plus, there’s an exclusive preview comic containing another never-before-published-in-the-U.S. Black Jack story that will be freely available at consumer conventions and fairs that Vertical attends. Enjoy!
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