Osamu Tezuka

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...

"When Sapphire and her space pirates board a mysterious vessel, panic breaks out over a parasitic infection!! Who better to confront this threat than cyber-surgeon, Black Jack, who sets out to save the crew with his unmatched scalpel skills. Can the heroes of Team Phoenix pull together a strategy to rescue the so-called Patient Alpha from the space citadel?!"--Back cover.

"Black Jack chronicles the travails of an enigmatic surgeon-for-hire who is more good than he pretends to be" -- p. [4] of cover.

In the industrial, tri-level world of Metropolis, Duke Red is a powerful leader with plans to unveil a highly advanced robot named Tima. But Duke Red's violent son Rock distrusts robots, and intends to find and destroy Tima. Lost in the confusing labyrinth beneath Metropolis, Tima is beginning a friendship with the young nephew of a Japanese detective. But when Duke Red separates the two innocents, Tima's life and the fate of Metropolis are dangerously...

Weaves the story of the Buddha's birth with those of the slave Chapra, pretending to be a generals son, his long-suffering mother, the pariah Tatta who talks to animals, and the monk Naradatta trying to interpret the omens of the Buddhas birth.