Akebono-san 7 page Shojo manga by Osamu Tezuka 1959

Knowing how long you coveted an original by Tezuka, I know how thrilling it must have been for you to score this. A big hearty congratulations, well deserved!

Just WOW!

Exceptional, Jeff! (even though it will not receive the attention it deserves on CAF sadly).

ps; yes, sell OTHER stuff and keep it complete ;)

Huge compliments for your effort. Tezuka is a magicien.

I commend you for not giving up and for making this happen. It's your choice of course, but I truly hope that you keep this story for your collection. Your collection is one of the special ones on CAF and this story is a tremendous centerpiece. Congrats, congrats, congrats! 

Tezuka is the greatest manga-ka of all time and this is a phenomenal example of his mastery of the medium. Incredibly dynamic and effective panel composition and wonderful character acting and cartooning. What a treasure this is! Congratulations!

Jeff, mazel tov, mazel tov, mazel tov!  Such beautiful pages that could not wind up with a more worthy person.  The drawing has such beautiful deceiving simplicity to it, with wonderful uses of high contrast shapes and lines.  And I love the caricature quality of the villainous character.  Simply wonderful work.  Congrats again, my friend.

Congratulations on your achievement Jeff!!!

Congratulations on your achievement Jeff!!!

Put me down for the splash when you break it up... but seriously, I don't know how you're going to top this. It is a wondrous day in the Singh collection.

Museum -quality artwork!!! Many congratulations Jeff, I'm very very happy for you... :-))

Thanks Monty.  I have a number of pieces I think are pretty special but with these I feel truly unworthy to own.  They do belong in a museum and I have very few pieces I feel like this about in collection(maybe my Herge).  I love them all but there are a few that mere mortals should not be allowed to own like this one.  

Good thing you are not a mere mortal! Congrats on a spectacular set of pages!

I have been waiting to see these (and I hope you can afford to keep them together). The splash is a wonderful bit of "shojo" imagery, a lot of which, he invented. The panel pages have all sorts of Tezuka's storytelling bits, including the strict teacher forcing the student to "gaman suru" (the Buddhist philosophy  of achieving by enduring the seemingly unbearable often mythologized in the years following the end of WWII), the bit where the teacher, a woman, pretends to be a man (see Ribbon Knight), the cartoonish car chase action (which goes back to his very first manga, New Treasure Island -- I particularly like how the villain's car knocks the other cars off the road), the evil villain with shades of gray, the stars, the big eyes and so much more. You say this is not your grail, and that you got your true grail early on, but this was your grail quest. It just came at a later point in time.

Congrats on this Jeff. A rare and treasured piece for your collection.

Such an incredibly special update, Jeff. You always amaze me with the breadth of your knowledge in graphic storytelling art. Congrats! 

Just beautiful. Congrats!

A masterpiece for sure.  Huge congrats. Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet -- you will forget the money, but not the art!!

OMG!!! The God of Manga! Great Jeff!

Speechless. 

You probably can’t go any further in collecting, but I know you’ll do your best to amaze all of us once again.

Major score, my Friend, this is truly outstanding

Museum-worthy indeed, and exquisite.

A true treasure. I'm very happy for you!

Wow! I could scarcely imagine holding one of Tezuka's original pages in my hands. To own an entire sequential story is beyond a privelege. I know how tricky it can be to obtain published Japanese art. Congratulations on such a fabulous acquisition!

A seven page Tezuka story from 1959, truly amazing. This must be a dream come true.

Another case for the Singh Museum of Art!

A true masterpiece and what a rarity!!

Awesome!!!!

C L A S S I C, Jeff.  A historical and transnational and wistfully beautiful gem.

マンガの神様... what else to add!!!  ❄🦅❄