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OMG I can't read Japanese, but there's that Tawashi, giving poor Astro grief again, right? We've all got at least one Tawashi in our lives! No matter what Atom does, Tawashi just WON'T be convinced of his virtue (and that of other robots). BTW do you mean TAWASHI's father committed the murders? Now...

I just thought I would share with you guys a few color pages of the original Astro Boy manga as drawn by Dr. Tezuka for the magazine, Shonen. From the reprint edition, "TetsuWan Atom(u) by Tezuka Osamu Shonen Original" (originally printed in 1997), reprinting from the 1961summer holiday expanded edi...

:D I just examined a sample of MACFARLAND's contract, & now I need a lawyer! All the permissions for use of images, etc, are the author's responsibility. :cry: How do I get these? I guess I need a new thread, or revive an old one. Okay! It seems to me you have one of many recourses to take re: publ...

Thank you, Jeffbert for that closer look at what must be a very interesting volume. (Where one can see Tezuka's original vision!) As I suspect, the original covers of the original "Shonen" magazine are not reproduced in the large format (LF) books (as they should be as they are reprinting the origin...

BTW, does the following picture look familiar to you? I believe it is the cover of the April, 1964 issue of the magazine, "Shonen"! I believe the April, 1964 issue had the second installment of "Last Day on Earth", so it would probably be in the LF volume which featured that serial. (oh,yeah disrega...

[QUOTE=ASTROBUDDY;172429][QUOTE=jeffbert;172396]I admit that I do not know how these were packaged, whether the 50 page SF books were accompanied by LF pages I know not. But as the SF usually are labeled by month & year, & the ads seem to indicate that they were printed later, I am guessing that th...

[QUOTE=jeffbert;172396]I admit that I do not know how these were packaged, whether the 50 page SF books were accompanied by LF pages I know not. But as the SF usually are labeled by month & year, & the ads seem to indicate that they were printed later, I am guessing that they were printed later. I w...

I forgot to mention that the picture above was from a replica of the supplement that was part of manga reprints included in the Astro Boy "Happy Birthday" box from 2003, that I bought on eBay recently. The supplement in question was the first of the Shonen supplements starring Astro Boy that Tezuka ...

:blush: I do not know how they are packaged today. :blush: @jeffbert**Mangas are packaged in clear plastic wrapping to protect the manga and to prevent casual readers from browsing through the magazine, You break the wrapping, you bought it!** I have units 3-7 (of 7): Looking in my notes, v3 seems ...

tO CLARIFY: 'SF' = "SMALL FORMAT" (50 PAGES give or take a few). 'LF" = "Large Format" which can contain as many as 350 magazine sized pages. As I understand it, the stories were 1st printed in the LF books as weekly or monthly installments of several to dozens of pages. These LF books also contain...