Black Jack is recognized as Osamu Tezuka's third most famous series, after Astro Boy and Kimba, the White Lion. A mysterious and charismatic young genius surgeon, Black Jack travels the world performing amazing and impossible medical feats. The globe-trotting maverick surgeon flies to Italy to save the life of a young boy who seems to be turning to stone. Black Jack must discover the source of an elderly father's breathing difficulties before his son conducts a medically assisted suicide to end his misery. These and other dramatic tales fill this volume of Black Jack's medical exploits.