{"product_id":"billy-bat-tp-vol-01","title":"Billy Bat TP Vol 01","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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.\"This 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.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.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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lunar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49763846193392,"sku":"9781419780080","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0727\/6861\/8736\/files\/IMG-0321.jpg?v=1779719983","url":"https:\/\/mayhemscafe.com\/products\/billy-bat-tp-vol-01","provider":"Mayhem's Bookstore \u0026 Board Game Cafe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}