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Actually, I don't know German. But I picked up a few words of it, because my grandmother spoke German.

Yes, that's good. But it's spelled "Doppelganger" -- with "EL", not "LE".

Quite right! But I was thinking of names for the "inverted" boy himself -- not just names for the picture of him. I'm imagining if there were really two Astro Boys who were somehow "opposites" of each other. Would they be friends -- or enemies? Would they work together, or would ...

Just for fun, I took an image of Astro Boy and inverted the colors. What shall we call this? Astro Boy's Inverse? Astro Boy's Double? Astro Boy's Other Self? Astro Boy's Counterpart? Astro Boy's Ghost? Astro Anti-Boy? Yeah, that's it. The anti-matter Astro Boy. If they meet, they'll explode! Inverte...

I understand Astro Boy first appeared in 1951. If so, then this year is his 75th anniversary. Most comic and cartoon characters are dead and forgotten before they get to be 75 years old. Go, go, go, Astro Boy!

Wouldn't it be nice if the Houston Astros made Astro Boy their mascot?

Maybe one of the Pokemon characters?

No, that's no good. Right away all the other nations would scream "Why should Japan have TWO representatives?" And within a week there'd be a worldwide nuclear war.

Since Astro Boy often acts as a sort of ambassador or diplomat, I’ve been thinking maybe we should form a delegation -- a team of “good guy” characters from comics, cartoons or any other kind of fiction -- who could act as diplomats to resolve disputes. But nobody will listen to them unless they lik...

Somewhere in the Astro Boy Manga comic books, there was a story containing giant rats. Can anyone tell me the story title and what issue it was in?

How about Uncle Scrooge?