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Black Jack (manga)

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Alternative title:
ブラックジャック (Japanese)
怪醫黑傑克 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: Black Jack is the doctor Tezuka wished he could be, one free of the constraints of the modern rules, who can heal and help on his rules. He travels the world helping those who pay him, sometime those he takes mercy on, and always those who move him. Despite not having a valid license, he is still the doctor of last resort, the only man who keeps the reaper at bay. Sometimes though, he's the one who brings the reaper...
User Ratings: 120 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 42 votes (Eng:28, dub:7, sub:2, raw:1, ?:1, others:3
1 Spanish
1 Italian
1 Italian subtitled
)
 Excellent: 35 votes (Eng:19, dub:5, sub:4, raw:2, ?:1, others:4
2 French
1 Spanish dubbed
1 Spanish edited dub
)
 Very good: 23 votes (Eng:11, sub:6, dub:3, raw:1, raw:1, ?:1)
 Good: 9 votes (Eng:4, sub:3, ?:1, others:1
1 French
)
 Decent: 7 votes (Eng:6, dub:1)
 So-so: 4 votes (Eng:3, sub:1)
 Not really good: -
 Weak: -
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 313 users, rank: #272 (of 6784)
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.700 (Excellent−), std. dev.: 1.3454, rank: #284 (of 7559)
Weighted mean: 8.516 (Excellent−), rank: #451 (of 7559) (seen all: 8.81 / seen some: 8.40 / won't finish: 7.32)
Bayesian estimate: 8.490 (Very good+), rank: #61 (of 3496)
Number of tankoubon: 17
Volumes:
#01. Black Jack (no secondary title in Viz edition)
#02. Two-Fisted Surgeon
Chapter titles: We have 243
Vintage:
1973-11-19 to 1983-10-14
1996-11 to 2000-06 (old Gilet French edition - 12 volumes, 83 issues)
2002-03 to 2005-01 (Hazard Italian edition - 25 vols, 235 issues)
2006-10-26 to 2009-10-01 (Spain - Glénat - New Edition)
Release dates: We have 60
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 4
Comment:
Controversial Chapters: Five chapters of Black Jack elicited controversy when they were released and have since either been never re-printed, or rarely re-printed. These are #28 "Finger", #41 "Vegetable," #58 "Seat of Pleasure, #171, "The Wall" and #209, "Falling Object." The first three have never been officially reprinted since their original serialization in Weekly Shonen Champion. Chapters #171 and #209 were respectively reprinted in a special issue and an anthology of Black Jack stories by other manga-ka.
Reviews:
Black Jack GN 16 (Dec 28, 2011)
Black Jack GN 14 (Jun 29, 2011)
Black Jack GN 5 (Jun 14, 2009)
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Story & Art: Osamu Tezuka
(none)
Japanese companies
Publisher: Akita Publishing
English staff
English cast
Translation:
Camellia Nieh (Vertical)
Camelliah Nieh (Vertical) 
Kate Robinson (Vertical)
Maya Rosewood (Vertical)

Cover Design: Peter Mendelsund (Vertical)
Essay: Ada Palmer
Production:
Akane Ishida (Vertical)
Carmel Winter (Vertical)
Christine Lee (Vertical)
Glen Isip (Vertical)
Hiroko Mizuno (Vertical)
Jill Rittymanee (Vertical)
Lawrence Leung (Vertical)
Maya Rosewood (Vertical)
Nicole Dochych (Vertical)
Rina Nakayama (Vertical)
Tomoe Tsutsumi (Vertical)
Vivian Ho (Vertical)
(none)
English companies
Licensed by:
Vertical
Viz Media
Serialized In: Manga Vizion
French cast
French staff
Translation:
Jacques Lalloz (Asuka)
Sylvie Siffointe (Glénat)
(none)
French companies
Publisher:
Asuka Comics
Glenat (complete ed. in 12 volumes)
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
Translation: Marc Bernabé (Spain ed.)
Licensed by: Planeta DeAgostini Comics (2017)
Publication: Gilet
Publisher: Glénat España (Spain)
Translation:
Daruma Serveis Lingüístics (Planeta DeAgostini)
Estudio Fenix (Spain)
Spanish cast
(none)
Italian staff
Italian companies
Translation:
Francesco Nicodemo (Hazard)
Tommaso Ghirlanda (J-Pop)
Publication: Hazard
Publisher:
Comic Art
J-Pop
Italian cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Licensed by: Taiwan Tohan Co., Ltd.
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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