"Black Jack" was first published in Akita Shoten's "Weekly Shonen Champion" on November 19, 1973, and serialized until September 1978. (After 1979, it was changed to irregular single-article publication) This manga won the 4th Japan Cartoonists Association Award in 1975 and the Kodansha Manga Award in 1977. In 2006, Huashan Literature and Art Publishing House introduced the simplified Chinese book copyright to mainland China and published and distributed it. The simplified version of the book has a total of 30 volumes. This work was first adapted into an OVA in 1992, a theatrical version was released in 1996, and adapted into a TV animation in 2004. It has also been made into a TV series many times. Black Jack, whose real name is Kuroo. His parents divorced when he was young, leaving his mother to take care of him alone. One day, he went out with his mother. Due to the negligence of the contractor, the mother and son accidentally stepped on an unexploded bomb, causing an explosion. His mother died after being sent to the hospital, and he was also seriously injured and on the verge of death. Fortunately, Dr. Jotaro Homma's superb medical skills saved him. At that moment, he made two wishes: to become a first-class surgeon like Dr. Homma and to avenge the engineer who killed his mother.