{"product_id":"billy-bat-volume-1","title":"Billy Bat Volume 1","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"content-heading-txt\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"content-heading-txt\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-name-poster-wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"name-author-wrapper-product\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the first thrilling volume in the sci-fi mystery by Naoki Urusawa and Takashi Nagasaki, beautifully packaged and available for the first time in English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57980655698294,"sku":"9781419780080","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/0970\/9115\/files\/81GrS9kDKmL._SL1500.jpg?v=1780068084","url":"https:\/\/travellingman.com\/products\/billy-bat-volume-1","provider":"Travelling Man UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}