Fifty years after his creation, Astro Boy continues to lead the manga and anime charge, his adventures still as fresh and exciting as when first crafted by master storyteller/cartoonist/animator Osamu Tezuka. In this volume: Astro Boy must help a robot bomb escape his creators and prevent earth from being destroyed; Astro battles a deadly underground tank controlled by an evil general bent on world conquest; a famous police detective enlists Astro to help him solve a murder—with the detective's father as the prime suspect! This volume contains the following stories: The Last Day on Earth, Subterranean Tank, The Man Who Returned From Mars, and The Blast Furnace Mystery.