New Releases by Shotaro Ishinomori

Unable to switch into battle mode, Jiro must confront the deadly robots created by the mad monk Futen. Salvation may be in the form of his prototype model, Code 01. But lacking the conscience chip that makes Jiro almost human, there''s no telling how this earlierversion will respond.

The cyborgs have tried to break the pattern of war in their ongoing struggle against the Black Ghost. In this final volume, the cyborgs journeys to their central command, but 009 finds a major surprise when they get there.

Nine humans are kidnapped by the evil Black Ghost organization to undergo human experiments. The nine humans are changed into cyborgs. Each one gain super human powers. The nine cyborgs work together to fight for their freedom and to stop Black Ghost. The evil organization''s goal is to start the next world war by supplying weapons of war and mass destruction.

Four years have passed since the last adventure and 009, though retired, remains fast and furious as race car driver Hurricane Joe, until he encounters the mysterious, dark power of the Black Ghost and is drawn back into the action.

After the double-zero heroes make their way through the jungles of Vietnam, they are challenged by the mighty and powerful Greek Myutos Cyborg team.

At the height of the nuclear arms race, the world powers develop cyborgs to fight their wars by proxy in outer space. A group of rogue cyborgs begins a revolution against their creators to save mankind from self destruction. Illustrations.

In a classic manga from the Cold War era, Cyborg 009 teams up with a renegade scientist to destroy a weapon that can wipe out any city on earth.

As neo Nazis threaten the world and an evil scientist kidnaps the children from Japan''s most powerful families, the cyborg team must come together as one to fight for justice.

In a classic manga from the Cold War era, nine cyborg prototypes who escaped from the evil Black Ghost organization capture an enemy submarine and take their battle back to the Black Ghost himself and his headquarters.

"Both entertaining & a splendid introduction to the country''s current economic problems." "Offers an intelligent, straightforward, simple (but not simple-minded) introduction to the Japanese economy & its relationship to the world economy. . . . It is also funny." Contents: trade friction; countering the rise of the Yen; industrial structure; deficit finance; & a monetary revolution.

"Both entertaining and a splendid introduction to the country''s economic problems."—Chalmers Johnson