Shonen Club Cover September 1958 by Osamu Tezuka
Date
Credits
- Tezuka Osamu 3 Author
Format
- Book 1079
- Magazine Cover 239
- Comic Book 94
Techniques
- drawing 128
- illustration 358
Dimensions
Locations Made
- Japan 571
Links
Hand colored cover crafted by the God of Manga, Osamu Tezuka.
The image shows the cover of the September 1958 issue of Shonen Club, a legendary Japanese magazine active from 1914 to 1962 that played a pivotal role in shaping early manga culture. Featured prominently is the series Fushigi na Shonen (The Strange Boy), which follows the adventures of a young boy named Saburo who gains the extraordinary ability to stop and manipulate time.
Fushigi na Shounen (The Strange Boy): These are the adventures of Saburo, who discovers a crack in an underground road to another dimension and gains the power to stop time. His special power is the ability to manipulate time and thus the hand of the clock on the cover. Classic Tezuka young male character much like Atom, Kenichi and Dororo.
The work was created by Osamu Tezuka, the visionary artist universally revered as the "God of Manga." A trained physician who chose the pen over the scalpel, Tezuka revolutionized the medium by introducing "cinematic" storytelling—using dynamic angles and expansive plots that moved away from static, single-panel strips. His humanist philosophy and iconic style, seen in world-famous works like Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion, laid the entire foundation for the modern manga and anime industries.
