Atom is now a teenager...

[Shiyonasan]

April 7, 2003: the day our favorite robot boy was born.

Perhaps it's a little early to post this for most of the world, but in Japan, it is now April 7. Atom is now 13 years old.

Also, a not-as-well known fact: [url=http://www.astroboy-online.com/archives.php]Astro Boy Online, as well as Astro Boy Online Forums, was opened to the public a day earlier on April 6, 2003![/url]

Use this thread to wish Atom a happy birthday, or head over to the [url=http://www.astroboy-online.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9597]Tetsuwan April Challenge thread[/url] to post some sort of tribute to him!

Here's a couple historical images with him and Superman, as well as other Tezuka characters dressed up as superheroes:

[url]https://twitter.com/HistoryImg/status/717698819417186305[/url]

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[Tetsuwan Penguin]

I wrote a story inspired by those images:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10528935/1/Smallville

And that image of Astro with the "S" on his chest is flipped left to right.

[YJ_Doodle]

Woohoo! Atom is now the same age as me Can't believe I'm technically older than him by a few months.

[Secretsivekept]

Does that mean my pictures of him aged are technically right? XD

[Dragonrider1227]

http://s19.postimg.org/vceitxsyb/image.jpg
I plan to resize this a little later but until then, here's my tribute to this special day

[Tnarrud]

The characters in the lower sketch are as follows; Dr. Tezuka himself, Minky Momo, Mr. Mustache, Black Jack, his aide Pinoko, and Tezuka's mushroom friend.

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

You left out Rock Holmes, Kimba, and Princess Knight. Tezuka drew himself as a flasher!