BILLY BAT TP VOL 01 (MR)

A long-awaited title from Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki: Billy Bat is a historical conspiracy thriller and meta-manga that stretches across millennia and follows a Japanese-American comic artist's search for the truth about the origins of his character "Billy Bat."

This is the first thrilling volume of the sci-fi mystery by Urasawa and Nagasaki – beautifully produced and available in English for the first time. In 1949 Los Angeles, Kevin Yamagata, a Japanese-American comics author, draws his best-selling hero Billy Bat: a quick-witted detective in the form of a cartoon bat. Everything goes well until Kevin is hit by the bitter realization that he may have unintentionally lifted his beloved character from a drawing in Japan. He travels to war-torn Japan to find the original artist – but Billy Bat's origins prove far older and more mysterious than he ever imagined.