So when I read this the other day, fell to my knees, raised my balled fists to the heavens and screamed 'Nooooooooo!', it was in part because my dream of a a Ten Cent Manga version of King Kong was evaporating (Which part? The sixth, seventh and eighth of the o's in 'Nooooooooo!').īy the way, did you click on that last link? You should click on that last link.

post-war), and Holmberg already included one Tezuka book, and, he seems to own a copy of it.or at least to have taken a picture of a copy of it to post on TCJ.com. I was really looking forward to future installments of Ten Cent Manga, and hoping that before long we'd see a King Kong entry into the series after all, King Kong is a western film, and Tezuka's adaptation came out in 1947 (i.e. They were both great fun to read, and, like everything PictureBox published, great-looking books. Only two volumes have been released Tezuka's The Mysterious Underground Men, a breathless, digest-sized adventure comic I just covered at Robot 6 yesterday (click here, and scroll 4/5ths of the page down), and Shigeru Sugiura's crazy-ass, comedy cover version of Last of the Mohicans (reviewed here second one down). The last time I heard mention of it was in the Ryan Holmberg translated and edited The Mysterious Underground Men, part of Holmberg's Ten Cent Manga series being published through PictureBox, the intent of which was to highlight western influence in post-war, mass-market Japanese comics. Perhaps it would ultimately prove disappointing, like Tezuka's Lost World (which Dark Horse published a few years back), but, worse comes to worst, it would still be a Tezuka comic with a giant gorilla in it. Relatively high on a list of things I love most in this world are King Kong and Tezuka's comics, so this is one of those dream comics of mine that I've wanted to be able to read, preferably translated into English, ever since I became aware of its existence.

It was apparently posted by Ryan Holmberg. I found that image at TCJ.comon one of the occasions upon which I've googled 'King Kong' and 'Tezuka,' which I've done every so often since I learned that Osamu Tezuka made a King Kong manga of some sort.

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