ASTRO BOY'S FIRST APPEARANCES

[ASTROBUDDY]

I don't know if these pictures have been posted on this website before, but now that it's so easy to post pictures I am so doing. Recently I purchased what is called, "The 'TetsuWan Atomu' Birthday Box". One of the features inside the box was a reprint of the more or less original version of "Atomu Taishi", aka "Ambassador Atom" and also known as "Captain Atom"! That is to say not the version seen in the Dark Horse series. Or even the orignal Japanese Asahi version. But the one that the Tezuka website states is the closet to the original; the version reprinted in the Kodansha collection of TetsuWan Atomu.
(This was relatively true until the recent reprintings by Kobunsha Publishing in their special box sets.) Any way here is the first appearance of Atom as he appeared in the first installment of "Atomu Taishi" to feature him!

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[ASTROBUDDY]

Next I will add a picture of the original Shonen covers. (The cover of the first installment to feature Atom is the one on the farthest right of the second horizontal column of covers.

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[ASTROBUDDY]

And finally the first two pages of the first installment of "TestuWan Atomu", which you know as the first few pages of "The Gas People", but is also known as, "Atom's Parents"! Let me know what you think about them if you have never seen these images before or even if you have!

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[shahinaa50]

These images are so cute! sorry, i felt like typing this, LOL!

[Tetsuwan Atom]

Nice i always wanted to have that version but yeha just try to find it but even this version is not the origional ?
Captain Atom that's a shame i wonder if it ever will be available in japan again.

[the 鉄腕アトム fan]

I've never seen this before

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[F-Man]

Astro's so cute in panel 2 I think I'm gonna die. Also nice hat.