Also Known as: ビリーバット 蝙蝠比利
Author: Urasawa Naoki, Nagasaki Takashi
Artist: Urasawa Naoki
Serialized in: Morning (Kodansha)

Summary: Billy Bat is a comic-in-a-comic and the real protagonist is a Japanese-American artist named Kevin Yamagata who draws Billy Bat for "Marble Comics".

Shortly after they transition to the artist in his studio with his assistant, two actual detectives, who look like Laurel and Hardy in Dick Tracy era suits and trench coats, knock on the door and appropriate Kevin's room for the purpose of conducting surveillance on a room in an adjacent building. One of the detectives, the skinny ?Laurel?, sees Kevin's work and it turns out he's a Billy Bat fan. The other chubby "Hardy" detective picks up a page and says that the characters look familiar and accuses Kevin of translating an old "Jap" comic.

As Hardy remembers the comic he thinks Kevin is ripping off, we make another Urasawaesque time jump to 1949 Tokyo...

Genre(s): drama, mystery, psychological, seinen

Manga Tracker

Updated	Release Name	Raw	Languages	Comments
03-22-2012	Billy Bat 73			2
03-17-2012	Billy Bat 72			2
02-27-2012	Billy Bat 71			3
01-03-2012	Billy Bat 70			1
12-28-2011	Billy Bat 68			1
12-28-2011	Billy Bat 69			1
12-04-2011	Billy Bat 67			1
11-27-2011	Billy Bat 66			0
11-19-2011	Billy Bat 65			2
09-04-2011	Billy Bat 64			2
08-24-2011	Billy Bat 63			2
07-24-2011	Billy Bat 62			1
07-08-2011	Billy Bat 61			1
06-26-2011	Billy Bat 60			1
06-16-2011	Billy Bat 59			2
06-12-2011	Billy Bat 58			1
06-12-2011	Billy Bat 57			1
06-07-2011	Billy Bat 56			2
06-04-2011	Billy Bat 55			1
05-22-2011	Billy Bat 54			2
03-12-2011	Billy Bat 53			1
03-04-2011	Billy Bat 52			2
02-24-2011	Billy Bat 51			1
02-01-2011	Billy Bat 50			0
01-19-2011	Billy Bat 049			0