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Art of Osamu Tezuka (手塚 治虫)

Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989) created comics Astro Boy in 1952, and a host of others, is considered the father of Japanese Comics, known as Anime. For more info about the artist, see: Osamu Tezuka

The Astro Boy

Japanese stamps commemorating Osamu Tezuka. The black figure is Black Jack, a underground doctor. The girl is Princess Knight. The cute cat is Kimba the White Lion

Others

From comics Cyborg 009 by 石ノ森章太郎 (Shotaro Ishinomori) (1993-1998) See: Cyborg_009

Another classic anime of this era, is this: Starblazers

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