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Let your fingers do the walking… from beyond the grave!

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“Let your fingers do the walking… from beyond the grave!”

Many of Tezuka’s younger (and perhaps not so young) fans may never have actually seen a rotary phone before… but it was a feature in everyone’s home and office back when ‘The Telephone’ was first published in the November 10, 1969 isssue of Play Comic.

You know that old, story… guy accidentally gets a phone call from a girl. She sounds cute, so he tries in vain to arrange a meeting. The only problem is, she’s calling long distance… from the afterlife!

All in all, pretty standard fare for Tezuka’s short-story anthology title, Under the Air (1968-70).

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