"jeffbert" wrote:[QUOTE=ASTROBUDDY;230834][QUOTE=jeffbert;230833]NEITHER ONE APPEARS IN ST; the color image is from CA, and is the 1st page of the 08/1951 chapter. Both CA & ST end with Atom offering his head to the Space people (DH p 184). Kappa continues as does DH to bring a proper ending. BTW, only the two top rows in 184 are from the ST/CA. I had not gone into a detailed analysis of the Kappa's differences to ST, & right now, with 3 windows of PHOTO VIEWER on screen, CA, ST, & DH, I scrolled backward from the last pages (184 of DH) & the DH 183 is indeed a mirror of the CA's next to last page, while ST's is different.
Though, I guess, with the cutting of many panels/pages, Tezuka obviously used pages / panels from CA that had not been in ST.
Thanks, JeffBert for your prompt response!
Let's see if I understand you correctly. The panels, as they appear on pg. 181 of DH--OTOAB Vol.# 15 with Astro Boy wearing a cape does not appear in either CA or ST?
The concluding page of Kappa Comic Extra 2003 has a few panels more than the scene where Astro Boy leaves his head. Are you saying the original manga ended with Atom's gesture of good faith! (BTW, Do you have a copy of KCE2003?) This would mean it seems that Dr. Tezuka redid his manga every chance he got.
(BTW, I just noticed in the KCE2003 edition, Astro Boy is shot out of a cannon and that's how he makes it up to the alien ship; where as in the DH volume he makes his way up to the ship under his own power, (his jets).
(Is this featured in either CA or ST or both?)
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last 1st: both CA & ST use the cannon in fact, both page 80 CA & 87 ST appear identical, except for the dialog.
Yes, both CA & ST end, oops, that good faith offering was on row 2/4. Then, the next to last panel has Atom with 2 heads, one on him, the other, taken from the box that the Space people just sent. S Tamao handed E Tamao the box on row 3:
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left: CA, right: ST.
So it appears that the SP sent 2 heads.
Finally, the 1st Q: correct, I could not find any of the 6 panels on DH v 15 p 181 in either CA or ST. I am certain that Tezuka had rewritten the ending for some reason, perhaps fans had been asking questions about the ending, since it appears that it was very brief & perhaps, still left something to the readers' imagination.[/QUOTE]
The pages above are what is shown in Kappa Comics Extra 2003. It may be that the DH version/Akita Shonen version was drawn specifically for that series of reprints; in the way "The Birth of Atom" story was drawn specifically for that series of reprints.
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