As Japanese popular culture and entertainment continue to explode in popularity around the globe, the single inspiration of the late Osamu Tezuka - master cartoonist, animator, and storyteller - cannot be underestimated, and Astro Boy is perhaps the most influential work of graphic fiction of the last fifty years. Each volume of his collected adventures is an all-ages treasure trove of action, comedy, and humanity...not to mention monsters, aliens, and giant robots!


* "One explanation for the popularity of comics in Japan is that Japan had Osamu Tezuka, whereas others did not." - Japan's Asahi Newspaper (quoted in Wizard Magazine)