Shunsuku Ban having a bad day?

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

Wonder what story this came from?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/comics212/5723794019/lightbox/

[Prettywitchiusaka]

Hmm, I can't say I'm surprised. ban always seems to find himself in the weirdest predicaments, doesn't he? Especially in the Astro Boy manga.

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

Maybe Strange Wings can translate the page?

[Strange Wings]

The kanji characters are too blurry to be recognizable, but the Japanese writing roughly translates as "In the middle of Tokyo ....?..... machines and robots were going berserk".
Neither I don't know which story this panel was taken from. Maybe Jeffbert can shed some light here?

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

Mad machine?

[jeffbert]

Without looking at my newly acquired UNIT 2 reprints, I am near certain that it is MAD MACHINE. I will check tomorrow.

[jeffbert]

I just checked the books, & this is panel #2 of MAD MACHINE's small format book:

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However, the story starts in the large format book, which contains 93 panels; yet, the last few panels are repeated beginning with SF #3, which seems similar to LF's 88th. Thus, the one in question is a recap.

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

The guy holding the gun looks a lot like the Joker from Batman.

I know that Mad machine appeared in the Dark Horse collection but I don't remember that panel being there. I guess the story was edited before being reprinted.

[jeffbert]

That is Count Bat / Pedan-hakase, the title character of the very next story. I do not know why they put that image on that volume.

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

Also noticed that Atom is colored in with a very red nose. He reminds me of W.C. Fields in that frame!
Also the DH collected version of Mad Machine has a different (smaller) frame instead of the one in that photo.
I guess that is one of the ones that Tezuka re-drew latter on. I think his earlier drawing was better (more detail).