Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun reports that 20 newly discovered sketches from Osamu Tezuka’s Black Jack will be displayed at the Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum until Oct. 30.
The sketches were intended for the manga’s 232nd installment, published in Champion magazine in April 1979.
Black Jack, about a surgical genius who travels the world performing impossible feats of medicine, was serialized from 1973 to 1983, and collected in 17 volumes.
According to the newspaper, such sketches are usually discarded. However, these drawings were kept by Gentosha Comics President Yoshihiko Ito, then-editor of Champion, to commemorate working with Tezuka for the first time.
