Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-194) and index
List of illustrations -- Notes on Japanese names, titles, and reading order -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction and some definitions -- Tezuka in history/History in Tezuka -- Movie in a book -- Stars and jokes -- Communities and competitions -- Sapphire and other heroines -- Tormenting affairs with animation -- Low humor/high drama, the two faces of adult comics -- God of comics, master of quotations -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
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