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The Original Astro Boy | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | NOW Comics |
Schedule | Monthly |
Publication date | September 18, 1987 - June 23, 1989 |
No. of issues | 20 |
Creative team | |
Written by | Ken Steacy, Michael Dimpsey |
Artist(s) | Ken Steacy, Brian Thomas, Andrew Pratt |
Letterer(s) | Andrew Pratt, Marc Hansen |
The Original Astro Boy is a twenty-issue 1980s comic book series (with one Astro Boy short story in Speed Racer #17) by NOW Comics, based on the original Japanese Mighty Atom series by Osamu Tezuka. The series was based mostly on the 1963 Astro Boy anime series, but began to include elements from the 1980 series in later issues. The comic went through three writers and artists, and embellished the original plotline, despite only covering the first episode of the 1963 series.