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Was the color picture from an official Tezuka publication or a knockoff? I've never seen Atom drawn with blue eyes except on third party stuff. Also the drawing style doesn't exactly match the Dr's. (and that's not his signature. ) KNOCK-OFF! I think you should choose your words more carefully as "...

Here are some more Cobalt/Jetto images. The first is a color rendition of when Jetto first meets Astro Boy and the other are sketches used to show how to draw "Cobalt/Jetto".

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can anyone tell me if this is from short clip or movie? the animation style is that of the 2003 series. I checked this website here but dont see the summery that matches this one.It shows a boy running from robots(future?) and finds astro asleep in museum(for how long i dont know) astro wakes up an...

I see what you mean and don’t disagree with that. Perhaps "dumbed" was the wrong word and "tamed" would have been better as the goal was to make it more acceptable to kids by their parents. In Japan the whole family would watch the show, but in the US just the kids. Well, I can't account for ...

I stand by my comment in the sense that Ladd DID dumb down the show from what today would be a PG rating to a G. While today we would laugh at the idea of doing this, Astro lost his but guns in many scenes and other violence was toned down. You are entitled to your opinion even though it is not bas...

The 1960's anime is the most closely related to the Manga in the artwork, and stories. It was created using a limited animation technique and was done in B&W. This is the only version that includes Cobalt. The 1980 version is in color, and many of the stories were also lifted from the manga. This w...

This is an interesting topic! Especially since they were so prominently displayed in the 2009 feature!

If I remember correctly, in at least one of the English dubbed episodes from the 60s, they are explained as being from his "hips"!

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"Tetsuwan Penguin" wrote:I've been looking at DH #14 which has a Cobalt/Uran story. On page 83 it looks like cobalt flying with Uran using ARM JETS!

Okay, I'll bite! Here's the page in question. I'm just wondering if this version of "Uran" is as originally published or have panels been added?

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Okay! Just getting back to basics. These pictures may not be "high-tec" and may have been seen elsewhere, but I thought I'd add them here as they are pictures of Cobalt/Jetto and I wanted to get in on the fun! (I only have 17 of the 89 and some have appeared on this site ala POSTS by JeffBert!) Here...

What is interesting is that while I watched "Astro Boy" on TV back in the sixties on channel 5 in NYC, (To Tetsuwan Penguin, Hello, neighbor!) it was in the eighties when I started making the rounds of sci-fi and comic book conventions that I really got into Astro Boy fandom and Astro Boy collecting...