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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Black Jack is a mysterious and charismatic young genius surgeon who travels the world performing amazing and impossible medical feats. Though a trained physician, he refuses to accept a medical license due to his hatred and mistrust of the medical community's hypocrisy and corruption. This leads Black Jack to occasional run-ins with the authorities, as well as from gangsters and criminals who approach him for illegal operations.Black Jack charges exorbitant fees for his services, the proceeds from which he uses to fund environmental projects and to aid victims of crime and corrupt capitalists. But because Black Jack keeps his true motives secret, his ethics are perceived as questionable and he is considered a selfish, uncaring devil. The Black Jack series is told in short stories. Each volume will contain 16-20 stories, each running approximately 20-24 pages in length.Black Jack is recognized as Osamu Tezuka's third most famous series, after Astro Boy and Kimba, the White Lion. The highly awaited first volume of Black Jack; a character recognised as one of Tezuca's most famous works alongside Astro Boy and Kimba, The White Lion. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781934287279
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: new. Product DescriptionBlack Jack is a mysterious and charismatic young genius surgeon who travels the world performing amazing and impossible medical feats. Though a trained physician, he refuses to accept a medical license due to his hatred and mistrust of the medical community's hypocrisy and corruption. This leads Black Jack to occasional run-ins with the authorities, as well as from gangsters and criminals who approach him for illegal operations.Black Jack charges exorbitant fees for his services, the proceeds from which he uses to fund environmental projects and to aid victims of crime and corrupt capitalists. But because Black Jack keeps his true motives secret, his ethics are perceived as questionable and he is considered a selfish, uncaring devil. The Black Jack series is told in short stories. Each volume will contain 16-20 stories, each running approximately 20-24 pages in length.Black Jack is recognized as Osamu Tezuka's third most famous series, after Astro Boy and Kimba, the White Lion.From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Manga legend Tezuka fuses medical drama (think a manga House) with philosophy in this famed series about the adventures of the world's greatest surgeon, the eponymous Black Jack. Created in the '70s, Black Jack combines the episodic tension of Tezuka's early serials with the humanist concerns of his later work, like MW and Phoenix. Black Jack is a dramatic, nearly Byronic figure, with a scarred face and sinister black coat who is unlicensed despite his unparalleled healing skills. Operating outside normal society, Black Jack is called in for the most outr and serious cases: a rich man's son who needs a body transplant; a young woman who keeps seeing the face of a murderer through her newly transplanted cornea; an American superdoctor computer that decides it's sick. In one of his most bizarre cases, Black Jack removes from a woman a teratoid tumor containing an unborn twin and uses the removed bits and synthetic parts to create a lisping little girl named Pinoko who functions as his sidekick. With genre-spanning stories-horror, sci-fi, romance-and Tezuka's signature blend of drama, bathos and extreme broad comedy jammed together on every page, Black Jack is a wild but extravagantly entertaining ride that's far more accessible than the author's novel-length epics. (Sept.)Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.ReviewPRAISE FOR OSAMU TEZUKAS BLACK JACK:Surely theres nothing in this series more continually striking than the artists relentless, guaranteed depictions of surgery itself, happy rubber skin always peeled away to show realist meat and bone, minutely detailed organs mended or transplanted, then covered up again in the stuff of effortless napkin doodles I found even the least of [these stories] fascinating examples of an artist casting his net especially far, secure in his talented hands and firm in his fame-ready to confront any malady, striving to cut away any harm, instrument tips sharpfor making flesh whole.-Jog -The BlogIconic doesn't begin to sum up Black Jack's importance in the world of manga I see a lot of Tezuka fans reaching for their wallets-not just for this volume alone, but for the whole of Black Jack as it's finally being re-released in the English-language edition it has always deserved. It was, and will be, more than worth the wait. Platinum Award.-Advanced Media NetworkTotally fun, totally engrossing. Black Jack is a page-turner of the highest order, and I blew through 280+ pages and I'm hungry for more.-Comics212.netGreat material-classic crazy Tezuka with a bloody medical heartbeat tuning out the sound of man's inhumanity to man.-NewsramaWhile Astro Boy is more iconic and Phoenix is more epic in scope, Black Jack is arguably Tezukas best and most enjoyable work [It] hits Tezuka's sweet spot where his heart, his head and his sense of humormeet in perfect company.-About.co. Seller Inventory # DADAX193428727X
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