ASTROBOY #1
RARE VINTAGE COMIC BOOK. Published in the eighties!
First issue of the fantastic comic book series featuring Osama Tezuka's classic anime robot hero ASTROBOY!
Featuring lavish full color artwork printed on high quality paper.
All new stories for the North American market.
Astro-Boy, the robot kid with the heart of gold, was one of the first generation of Japanese anime characters to gain popularity in the United States, debuting (along with Speed Racer) in 1964. It is no exaggeration to say that Astro-Boy enjoys superstar status in the Japanese comic world, and was a natural to help lead the first wave of manga titles to see print in the U.S. in the late 1980s. Now Comics gives Astro-Boy a well-packaged showcase, with colorful, open, kid-friendly art and storytelling from writer Michael Dimpsey, and illustrators Ken Steacy and Rodney Dunn.
Astro-Boy inhabits a future world where robots are common, but treated as second-class citizens. Created as a child-surrogate by a slightly megalomaniacal mad scientist, Astro-Boy has the innocence of a little boy but the powers of a fighting machine.
This comic book was never available to the mass market and was only sold in comic book specialty shops.
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