jeffbert wrote:Here is the link to the Tezuka Osamu World Page for Jetter Mars: http://en.tezuka.co.jp/anime/sakuhin/ts/ts016.html
To put it bluntly, Mars is the Atom of the 1970s. He has several adventures that are essentially 1970s versions of Atom's earlier adventures. As an example,
the 35th manga adventure:
Artificial Sun, The Artificial Sun Ball (Original title: Fire Jar Island)
(Dark Horse vol. 5)
was the 1960s 14th Episode The Artificial Sun (English: 12. The Artificial Sun)
It was the 1980s 39th Episode The Stolen Sun (English: 37. The Man-Made Solar Sphere)
Between the 1960s & the 1980s Astroboy anime, was the Mars series, which used essentially the same plot as in this story, but made the sphere a freezing device, and the control was via a xylophone rather than a piano or organ as in the Astroboy versions. The villian was Kin Sankaku, who was also cast as the villian in the Astroboy versions for this story.
For the Jetter Mars version, go to character introduction, & reference "Jam Bond" & "Golden Triangle." These two characters were in this story. Jam Bond replaced Sherlock Homespun as the detective for this story. "Golden Triangle" is the incorrect name for Kin Sankaku, who in this story, has a yellow triangle on his shirt.
