New Astro Boy manga series?

[strobe_z]

Well, not quite new... but is Dark Horse repackaging their Astro Boy series? I'm pretty sure that Diamond is only a distributor and not the actual publisher. We've heard rumours that the "hard to get" first couple of Astro Boy volumes would be reprinted, but I'm interested to see if this will be a new set or just a one off thing.

From Chapters.ca...

Astro Boy Volumes 1 & 2
Author: Osamu Tezuka
List Price:$15.50
Online Price:$11.78

Format:Other
Published:September 1, 2008
Dimensions:432 Pages, 4 x 6 x 0 in
Published By:Diamond Comic Distributors, Incorporated
ISBN:1595821538

From the Publisher
Dark Horse proudly presents one of the crown jewels of manga - Astro Boy Created by the late Osamu Tezuka, a revered animator and cartoonist (who created over 150,000 pages of comics in his career ) considered the Walt Disney of Japan, Astro Boy was the first manga series to be adapted to animation and became a worldwide phenomenon, making Astro Boy the Mickey Mouse of anime - a jet-powered, super-strong, evil-robot-bashing, alien-invasion-smashing Mickey Mouse, that is Exciting, whimsical, and touching, Astro Boy hearkens back to the classic era of comics and animation, featuring stories that readers young and old will enjoy.

EDIT-After checking the Dark Horse website () it does seem that it's only for volumes 1&2. Still, it would be neat to have 400page super editions... Especially with the 2009 movie coming up.

[pomocho]

This is great news for those of us who would like to own these, but don't have the money/time/patience/tolerance to collect all twenty-some-odd volumes. I think repackaging the Astro Boy books in affordable, more compact units would be a great idea.

[Manetoys]

[Deda]