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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.]]> 534309 3 521817 1999 Black Jack Volume 1 total:132|5:43|4:57|3:28|2:4|1:0| 132 535 182 27 29482 4.12 6592 683 77251348 1637858 2479215 193428727X 9781934287279 15 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2479215.Black_Jack_Volume_1 4.06 52
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.]]> 1999 4 0 false Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 16:09:47 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 12:12:10 -0800 2009
Black Jack is a fun...more...]]> 68575256 1348527 2479215 193428727X 9781934287279 15 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2479215.Black_Jack_Volume_1 4.05 132
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.]]> 1999 4 0 false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 12:45:44 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 06:46:47 -0700 2009
Good things to know about the book are:

- There is (or seems to me to be) a strange dichotomy to Tezuka's presentation style with Black...more...]]> 74649930 650953 534309 1569313164 9781569313169 11 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175607723m/534309.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175607723s/534309.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/534309.Black_Jack_Volume_1 4.06 79 1999 3 0 false Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 14:00:59 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 14:09:04 -0700 2009 Astro Boy, Black Jack is a series of vignettes about an unlicensed, but genius doctor with a heart of gold who likes to pretend that he's only in it for the money.

The art is more polished than Astro Boy, and the series i...more...]]> 59390319 2175066 534309 1569313164 9781569313169 11 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175607723m/534309.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175607723s/534309.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/534309.Black_Jack_Volume_1 4.05 132 1999 0 0 false Mon May 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 07:18:44 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 07:24:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 38735198 957848 2479215 193428727X 9781934287279 15 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2479215.Black_Jack_Volume_1 4.05 132
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.]]> 1999 3 0 false Wed Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 20:54:33 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 21:01:50 -0800 2008 more...]]> 37700315 553055 2479215 193428727X 9781934287279 15 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2479215.Black_Jack_Volume_1 4.05 132
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.]]> 1999 5 1 true Mon Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 14 04:57:17 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 14 06:07:09 -0800 2008 Black Jack are really nice — thick cream-colored paper, great reproduction fo the drawings, and fantastic covers. In fact, the cover of volume one features an embossed indentation that highlights the image of a set of hook retractors opening a surgical inci...more...]]> 35820885 133661 2479215 193428727X 9781934287279 15 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2479215.Black_Jack_Volume_1 4.05 132
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.]]> 1999 4 0 false Mon Oct 20 20:38:14 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 08:26:45 -0700 2008
The Atomic Bomb in many ways started...more...]]> 60778169 242240 534309 1569313164 9781569313169 11 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175607723m/534309.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175607723s/534309.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/534309.Black_Jack_Volume_1 4.05 132 1999 4 0 false Tue Jun 23 08:17:10 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 08:19:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 34575381 766524 534309 1569313164 9781569313169 11 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175607723m/534309.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175607723s/534309.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/534309.Black_Jack_Volume_1 4.05 132 1999 4 0 false Wed Oct 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 10:05:43 -0700 2008 Sat Dec 06 10:35:51 -0800 2008 1 Black Jack (ViZ, 1987)

Tezuka, who had a medical degree but never practiced medicine, was a natural to create medical-thriller manga. Thus, Black Jack. I was first introduced to Tezuka through Ode to Kirihito, and thus this more traditional manga came as something of a surp...more...]]> 53307702 76042 2479215 193428727X 9781934287279 15 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2479215.Black_Jack_Volume_1 4.05 132
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.]]> 1999 4 0 false Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 22:26:35 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 20:35:18 -0700 2009 38947570 1747632 2479215 193428727X 9781934287279 15 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2479215.Black_Jack_Volume_1 4.05 132
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.]]> 1999 4 0 false Sun Nov 30 11:04:25 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 11:05:37 -0800 2008 34681608 438620 2479215 193428727X 9781934287279 15 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2479215.Black_Jack_Volume_1 4.05 132
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.]]> 1999 3 0 true Tue Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 06 15:43:25 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 07 13:11:34 -0700 2008 Black Jack didn't quite live up to years of hype for me. I enjoyed most of the stories, except for "Confluence," which just pissed me off. While I like stories with gender-bending, androgyny, etc., I was disturbed by the sentiment that "to have [the uterus and o...more...]]> 34160042 75853 2479215 193428727X 9781934287279 15 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2479215.Black_Jack_Volume_1 4.05 132
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.]]> 1999 4 0 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 17:48:45 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 08:58:29 -0700 2008
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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
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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
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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
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