name of a character

[Dragonrider1227]

Thanks everyone

[MightyAstro]

I'll have to check again but I'm sure her name was Scara, as in being a take-off of Scarlet O'Hara with her background story being somewhat of a parody of the plot of the book "Gone With the Wind".

[jeffbert]

Scara was the insectoid homage to Jiminy Cricket featured in the Chronicles of Astroboy in vols 6-8 of the manga. Spica was the morping robot featured in vol 22's "Astro Boy Returns."

[MightyAstro]

I had another look at my copy of the 22nd volume Jeffbert, and you are indeed right.
Maybe I should look at volumes 6-8 sometime as well. Maybe I'm getting mixed up, but wasn't there some alternative story within those Chronicles behind Astro's return after being melted in the sun somewhere somehow?

[jeffbert]

No, the Chronicles are an entirely different story arc. They do not even consider the close encounter with Mr. Sun as having occurred.

Vol. 22 does have 2 diffent versions of Atom's resurrection, though.

Publication, sequence of story in that publication, Dark Horse title, TOW Title, date of original publication:

1. 4th Grade student <Study Magazine>, 1 Astro Returns Astro Boy Returns 04/1972
2. BUNGEI SHUNJU Deluxe 1 Astro II Astro Boy II 09/1975

Although the latter version was purely humorous, with actors usually typcast as villains cast here as bureaucrats haggling over the characteristics of the new Atom. Afill creates a set of ahem, you know, as the others have decided to make the new Atom not only more human, but human.