Black Jack, Volume 2

by Osamu Tezuka

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934287288
• ISBN13: 9781934287286
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Vertical Comics
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Good Manga

Ihave always been a fan of Black Jack. Unlicenced Doctor for hire! This was very intertaining and I am looking foward to the next installment!

Another great series from Osamu Tezuka

Osamu Tezuka covered more genres than any other creator. This one is special, because Tezuka actually was a medical doctor before writing comics. This collection of stories show a lot more actual surgery (and a lot more realism) than tv medical dramas like ER or Grey's Anatomy. Yet Tezuka also creates memerable characters in every adventure. He has Black Jack travel around the world and interact with all classes of people. Each story is really different which keeps the reader from being bored. This is a great collection for any fan of great stories.

Role and limit of medicine

It was completely enchanted to the technique of Mr. Tezuka who drew by concrete production of surgical operation an abstract theme like sadness of the mind which was not saved and emptiness to temporary extension of life whose mortality rate is absolutely 100% Though it is a bytalk it becomes prohibition of sale disposal by social conditions, and there are many stories of the uncollection in the book by author's intention, and the typical one includes "Seat of pleasure", "Money, Money and Money", "Wall", "Visited memories", "Phoenix", "Falling object", and "Plant man", etc. at that time. For instance, the Robotome operation is a theme in "Seat of pleasure". The Robotome operation was performed as a kind of the brain medical treatment for a certain period of time. This is the one to destroy the frontal lobe with throwing in of the most the wire from the eye socket. Tezuka himself became the result of leaving the comment by saying that it had been drawn comparatively affirmatively back , saying that "No consideration passed".

very well worth to keep

I have always been an Osamu fan. I first read Black Jack over 20 years ago. It's great to own it again in the U.S. Great stories that tell the truth about human minds. Very well worth to collect. When is the next volume going to be published?

A sequel of the Black Jack series

This is the second volume of Black Jack series published in English. This is a story about an unlicenced surgeon, who is genuis in surgery. Although you can learn how he became a surgeon, or how he got his assistant, Pinoco, in the previous volume, all the episodes are basically independent and you can enjoy the story no matter which volume you choose to read first.