Astro Boy 1963

It was perhaps natural that Don Tay should hate civilization. After all, were not his ancestors simple, hard-working peons, captured and exploited by the cruel conquistadors?

Time after time, mysterious forces destroy the huge underwater dam being built by the Institute of Science. Why would anyone wish to destroy it?

Professor I. Q. Plenty startled a group of greedy plant owners by announcing that he had perfected the very thing they were seeking: a Robot Wacky Inducer - a machine that could actually make troublesome robots wacky, and therefore harmless.

Once a year in the 21st century, the citizens of earth celebrate Memory Day. On that day, they honor the memories of family members who have traveled so far into the universe that they are gone for years at a time!

A strange rocket from outer space crashes on earth and the first man to investigate is Professor BooBoo who finds the plans for a super duper robot.

Astro Boy and Dr. Elefun get involved with a mysterious Dr. Gray Dorian. A man at least eighty years old, he has the appearance of a man only half that age. How come?

Doctor Elefun, on his way to the moon, suddenly disappears! When Astro Boy traces the Doctor's route in space, he finds the moon under attack by monsters from another sun!

Impresario J. C. Tenpercent had invented an uncanny magician robot billed as Mister Abra Kadabra.

From time to time, the civilized world is shocked to hear of the sightings of various and assorted monsters: the Loch Ness Monster of Scotland, the Mediterranean colocynth - a prehistoric fish actually caught in the late 1950s, etc.

Four people - a tall, skinny newspaper reporter; a short, fat doctor; a female jazz singer; and a mischievous little boy - are summoned by note to meet at eight o'clock in the park one night.

A thin, wiry man named Professor Nafsu had finally done what seemed impossible: He invented an Elixir of Life! One good quaff of the Elixir could make a man immortal.

Dr. Elefun decides that Astro Boy and Astro Girl do not have the proper appreciation for the beautiful wonders of nature - flowers, trees, etc. He sends Astro Boy and Astro Girl to school to learn to appreciate the beautiful things in life.

Somehow, unaccountably, the Asteroid Medusa had broken orbit and was now plummeting toward earth! A collision, if one occurred, would mean the end of the planet.

One housing development after another was destroying the beautiful woodlands around the city, spoiling the beauty of natural surroundings and leaving animals homeless.

Doctor Elefun, Professor von Flugle, and others in the scientific world had trekked to the remote Himalayas in an all-out assault upon the region to learn once and for all whether or not there was such a creature as the Abominable Snowman.

The mysterious plane that crashed in the Bering Strait was more than a routine air disaster; it was a global calamity. For, unknown even to security officers, aboard it was the dreaded X-Bomb, a stupendous explosive device used to probe stars in deep space.

On the distant Boolaboo Islands stands a group of stone statues covered with mysterious writing. The writing, finally, is understood and it reveals that hidden on one of the islands is a super ship left on earth by highly advanced space travelers of prehistoric times.

Astro Boy's family is surprised by a robot caller who has only the lower part of a body. His name is Knobby Knobody and he is quite insistent that Astro Boy comes with him to the Land of Goshen where his help is urgently needed.

Astro Boy and Mr. Pompous settle down for a long ride in their train compartment, when suddenly the door bursts open and a strange, dark man, dressed in ancient Egyptian garb, enters.

That fiend of the Nile, the evil genius Rasburton, had once before confronted Astro Boy, then fled when the brave, little robot thwarted his scheme to re-create an Egyptian dynasty.

Dr. Elefun's Institute of Science has achieved the impossible: It has actually built an all-robot spaceship, an unmanned "phantom ship" composed entirely of robot parts, each with its own electronic brain unit.

From the planet Gip Gip in outer space comes a spaceship. The Gip Gip men ask the men of earth for an animal specimen to take back to their zoo.

From the distant planet of Popilloli the little boy Yatata comes to go to school. He is followed by his close friend, the great space horse Davalon. Astro Boy and Yatata become pals but when the world learns of the unusual horse at Astro Boy's house a vast throng surrounds them.

For the first time in the universe, three-dimensional television is about to be introduced, but there is great interference as the first show starts. A monstrous fog emerges from the TV monitor and then disappears.