Billy Bat Volume 1

Name: Billy Bat Volume 1
Brand: Phoenix Books
SKU: PHBK-9781419780080
Price: 13.99 USD
Availability: InStock

$13.99

By: Urasawa, Naoki, Nagaski, Takashi

Published by Kana, 2026

"A historical conspiracy-thriller meta-manga spanning multiple millennia following a Japanese American comics artist's search for the truth regarding the origins of his character "Billy Bat" A thrilling sci-fi mystery by Naoki Urusawa and Takashi Nagasaki. It's 1949 Los Angeles, and Kevin Yamagata, a Japanese American comic book artist, is drawing his bestselling comic book character, Billy Bat: a quick-witted detective who is, unsurprisingly, a cartoon bat. Everything is going well for Kevin until he discovers an unfortunate truth: He may have unintentionally plagiarized his beloved character from a drawing he once saw in Japan. Devastated by the news, Kevin returns to war-torn Japan to find the drawing's original artist . . . but the character's origins turn out to be far older and more perplexing than he had ever imagined"--

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