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Astro Boy (GN 2)

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Title: Astro Boy
Volume: GN 2
Pages: 208
Distributor: Dark Horse Comics

Release date: 2002-05-07
Suggested retail price: $9.95
Age rating: ALL

ISBN-10: 1569716773 1569716773
ISBN-13: 9781569716779 9781569716779

Description:
As Mickey Mouse is to American animation, so to anime and manga is Astro Boy, the quintessential creation of Osama Tezuka, one of the world's revered giants of comics and animation. Dark Horse brings the original Astro Boy manga to America for the first time in an English-language edition, translated by Frederick L. Schodt, renowned for his work on Ghost in the Shell and for his books on Japan, including Manga! Manga!. In this volume, Astro Boy comes to the aid of Gravia's robot president to prevent his overthrow at the hands of a secret anti-robot society; a robot magician is cloned as a setup to start a movement against intelligent robots, and only Astro Boy can expose the conspiracy; and Astro Boy defends a powerful

(added on 2012-02-15, modified on 2012-02-15)

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