About the Black Jack Deluxe Hardcover Manga Volume 1

Black Jack is recognized as Osamu Tezuka’s third most famous series, after Astro Boy and Kimba, the White Lion. A rich medical drama that mixes mystery, intrigue, suspense and a dash of humor, with a fascinating main character who keeps his caring nature a secret, preferring instead to be perceived as a heartless cad.Black Jack—the mysterious surgeon whose mercenary ways hide a benevolent heartDrawing on his own experience as a student of medicine, the God of Manga's late-period masterwork remains his most popular adult series in Japan. This volume presents for the first time in English a curated selection of chapters that have not been published in color since their original appearance in magazine form, along with a treasure trove of related archival material.