{"product_id":"billy-bat-volume-1-volume-1","title":"Billy Bat Volume 1: Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\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\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first thrilling volume in the sci-fi mystery by Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki, beautifully packaged and available for the first time in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt'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\u003cp\u003eEverything 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\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1419780085\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781419780080\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Urasawa, Naoki, Nagasaki, Takashi, Iwashiro, Kristi\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Kana\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kana","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Jun 2026)","offer_id":46099928154309,"sku":"9781419780080","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781419780080.jpg?v=1776646877","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/billy-bat-volume-1-volume-1","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}