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ABOVE: Cast left to right: Black Queen (hair up), Kisaragi Kei (glasses), Dr. Yamadano (monacle), Black Jack (front), Pinoko (little girl), Dr. Kiriko (eyepatch), Dr. Kiriko's Sister (long hair), Dr. Honma (big nose).

Black Jack (1973-1983) is Tezuka’s best loved series written more for adults than for children, and Black Jack his most popular adult character. A charismatic but sinister surgical genius, Black Jack travels the world performing seemingly impossible feats of surgery. Among Black Jack's many medical accomplishments are full-body skin grafts, arm transplants, brain transplants, fingerprint transplants, grafting two people together to share one heart, extracting full-body parasites, operating at lightning speed, operating blind, operating in space, operating on a dozen patients at once, operating on dogs, cats, deer, bears, monkeys, birds, whales, aliens, ghosts, mummies, plants and computers, and removing a parasitic worm from his own intestines while under assault by a pack of wild dingos.