{"product_id":"billy-bat-volume-1-naoki-urasawa-9781419780080","title":"Billy Bat Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eA highly requested title from Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki, the in-demand manga Billy Bat is a historical conspiracy-thriller meta-manga spanning multiple millennia following a Japanese American comic artist's search for the truth regarding the origins of his character \"Billy Bat.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e This is the first thrilling volume in the sci-fi mystery by Naoki Urusawa and Takashi Nagasaki, beautifully packaged and available for the first time in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e It's 1949 Los Angeles, and Kevin Yamagata, a Japanese American comic book author, is drawing his bestselling character, Billy Bat: a quick-witted detective who is, unsurprisingly, a cartoon bat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Everything is going well for Kevin until he discovers an unfortunate truth: He may have unintentionally plagiarized his beloved character from a drawing he once saw in Japan. Devastated by the news, Kevin returns to war-torn Japan to find the drawing's original artist . . . but the character's origins turn out to be far older and more perplexing than he had ever imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Naoki Urasawa","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50526988828915,"sku":"9781419780080","price":21.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781419780080.jpg?v=1787602941","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/billy-bat-volume-1-naoki-urasawa-9781419780080","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}