Black Jack

Black Jack (ブラック・ジャック Burakku Jakku) is a manga written by Osamu Tezuka in the 1970s, dealing with the medical adventures of a doctor named Black Jack.

Black Jack consists of hundreds of short, self-contained episodes, on the order of 20 pages of manga each. Some of it has been translated into English by Viz Communications. “Black Jack” has also been animated a number of times, two of his animations available from Central Park Media and Manga Entertainment. Black Jack is Tezuka’s third most famous manga, after Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion.