Astro Boy Volume 17

by Osamu Tezuka

Dark Horse proudly presents one of the crown jewels of manga - Astro Boy! Created by the late Osamu Tezuka, a revered animator and cartoonist (who created over 150,000 pages of comics in his career!) considered the Walt Disney of Japan, Astro Boy was the first manga series to be adapted to animation and became a worldwide phenomenon, making Astro Boy the Mickey Mouse of anime - a jet-powered, super-strong, evil-robot-bashing, alien-invasion-smashing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569718989
• ISBN13: 9781569718988
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Dark Horse Manga
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.5" x 7.2"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

A Must for Pre-Teen Boys (#17)

Q: Do you have a male preteen, who likes Pokemon, Yugioh, cartoons, owns at least two game systems (handhelds count) and knows what anime is? A: Yes. Stop here and buy the series. Don't ask why, or is it valuable, beneficial or even engage in the debate about the academic merits of comic books, or graphic novels. I could tell you it is a Japanese classic, on par with Superman, that it may be a collectors item in the future or it is an engaging series with complex subplots for this age group. That doesn't matter. You only need to know that if you buy it: 1. He is reading 2. He is reading 3. He is not playing a video game 4. He is reading 5. He is not arguing or fighting with a sibling 6. He is not watching TV like a mindless drone 7. He is reading 8. He will want to read other graphic novels.