Billy Bat

Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki's Billy Bat is a sprawling, time-jumping conspiracy thriller published by Carlsen Comics in Germany. Over 20 issues, Urasawa's art anchors a globe-trotting mystery that connects a 1940s American comic-book hero, a Japanese manga artist, and shadowy forces across centuries. This series matters as a masterful, meta-fictional exploration of how stories and symbols echo through history, wrapped in Urasawa's signature suspense.