The Fossil Island

化石島 (Kasekitō)
The Fossil Island
Cover of The Fossil Island from the Osamu Tezuka Manga Complete Works edition
Genre	Adventure
Manga
Written by	Osamu Tezuka
Published by	Tokodo
Published	December 5, 1951

The Fossil Island (化石島, Kasekitō) is a Japanese manga by Osamu Tezuka that was published as a book in 1951.

Plot

At the mysterious Fossil Island, three visitors have come for a visit. Newspaper Reporter Rock, Songwriter Kodama, and manga artist Osamu Tezuka. On the island are many rocks shaped like human people. When each one of them witness a different rock, each with their own name on them, the three enter into a dream like world. In Rock's dream world, he finds himself partnered with the great detective Sherlock Holmes. Together, they race against the French master thief Arsene Lupin for a sculpture that has been hidden away. In Osamu Tezuka's dream world, the consumption of ancient foods take him to a world where humans and animals have switched brains. Now the humans all act like animals, while the animals all act like humans.

For Kodama, she finds herself robbed of her own body by Eros, the God of Love, who is in the form of an old man. Without her body, her spirit ascends to Heaven and to an amazing adventure. Two more stories follow after these, ending with the introduction of one of Tezuka's stars from his Star System: Pippy.

Characters

Rock
Osamu Tezuka
Kodama
Sherlock Holmes
Arsene Lupin
Kao Sekken as "Eros Iwasaku"
Amore
Rotte
Sam
Morgan

Other manga

In the Osamu Tezuka Manga Complete Works release of "The Fossil Island", two of Tezuka's short stories were added in with the book — Robin-chan and The Maiden of Tatsugafuchi.

External links

"The Fossil Island" manga page at TezukaOsamu@World (English)
"The Fossil Island" manga page at TezukaOsamu@World (Japanese)
"The Fossil Island" manga publications page at TezukaOsamu@World (English)
"The Fossil Island" manga publications page at TezukaOsamu@World (Japanese)

Works by Osamu Tezuka

Manga	Diary of Ma-chan (1946) Lost World (1948) Angel Gunfighter (1949) Metropolis (1949) Faust (1950) Kimba the White Lion (1950–1954) Age of Adventure (1951–1953) The Fossil Island (1951) The Adventure of Rock (1952–1954) Astro Boy (1952–1968) Crime and Punishment (1953) Princess Knight (1953–1956) Chief Detective Kenichi (1954–1956) The Devil of the Earth (1954) Soyokaze-san (1955–1956) Himawari-san (1956) Lion Books (1956–1957) Biiko-chan (1957) The Curtain is Still Blue Tonight (1958) The Film Lives On (1958–1959) Peacock Shell (1958) The Twin Knights (1958) Akebono-san (1959) Dr. Thrill (1959) The Merchant of Venice (1959) Song of the White Peacock (1959) Angel's Hill (1960–1961) Captain Ken (1960–1961) Brave Dan (1962) Big X (1963–1966) Princess Knight (1963–1966) Yokko-chan ga Kita Yo! (1963) The Amazing 3 (1965–1966) Ambassador Magma (1965–1967) Ode to Kirihito (1966–1967) The Vampires (1966–1967) Dororo (1967–1968) Gum Gum Punch (1967–1969) Phoenix (1967–1988) Princess Knight (1967–1968) Activist Student (1968) Grand Dolls (1968) Swallowing the Earth (1968–1969) The Crater (1969–1970) Triton of the Sea (1969–1971) Alabaster (1970–1971) Apollo's Song (1970) Bomba! (1970) Marvelous Melmo (1970–1972) Birdman Anthology (1971–1975) Lion Books II (1971–1973) Little Wansa (1971–1972) Serenade of a Pig's Navel (1971) Ayako (1972–1973) Buddha (1972–1983) Lay of the Rhine (1972) Lord Iechika Mogami (1972) The Moon and Wolves (1972) Old Folk's Home (1972) Black Jack (1973–1983) The Record of Peter Kyulten (1973) Sensual Nights (1973) Son of Godfather (1973) The Three-Eyed One (1974–1978) Boy Detective Zumbera (1975) Rainbow Prelude (1975) MW (1976–1978) Unico (1976–1979) Don Dracula (1979) Insect Collector (1979) Insect Collector - The Butterfly Road Smells of Death (1979) The Thief Akikazu Inoue (1979) Hidamari no Ki (1981–1986) Rainbow Parakeet (1981–1983) Spaceship Ringel Rock (1982) Suspicion (1982) Volcanic Eruption (1982) Message to Adolf (1983–1985) Peace Concert (1984) Duke Goblin (1985–1986) Gringo (1987–1989)

Anime	Alakazam the Great (1960) Astro Boy (1963) (1963–1966) Big X (1964–1965) The Amazing 3 (1965–1966) Kimba the White Lion (1965–2009) Leo the Lion (1966–1968) Gokū no Daibōken (1967) Princess Knight (1967–1999) Dororo (1969) A Thousand and One Nights (1969) Cleopatra (1970) Marvelous Melmo (1971) Triton of the Sea (1972–1979) Kanashimi no Belladonna (1973) Little Wansa (1973) Jetter Mars (1977) Undersea Super Train: Marine Express (1979) Unico (1979–1983) Astro Boy (1980) (1980–1981) Fumoon (1980) Phoenix 2772 (1980) Don Dracula (1982) The Green Cat (1983) Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature (1984) Lunn Flies into the Wind (1985) The Three-Eyed One (1985–1991) Phoenix (1986–2012) Yamataro Comes Back (1986) Blue Blink (1989–1990) The New Adventures of Kimba The White Lion (1989–1990) Rain Boy (1989) Adachi-ga Hara (1991) Akuemon (1993) Ambassador Magma (1993) Black Jack (1993–2011) In the Beginning: The Bible Stories (1997) Jungle Emperor Leo (1997) Hidamari no Ki (2000) Metropolis (2001) Astro Boy (2003) (2003–2005) Astro Boy: Mighty Atom - Visitor of 100,000 Light Years, IGZA (2005) Ravex in Tezuka World (2009) Buddha (2011–present)

Related	Galaxy Boy Troop Osamu Tezuka's Star System Tezuka Award Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Tezuka Productions Tokiwa-sō

Sherlock Holmes Novels by people other than Arthur Conan Doyle

Young Sherlock Holmes by Andy Lane	Death Cloud (2010) Red Leech (2010) Black Ice (2011) Fire Storm (2011)

The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr	"The Adventure of the Seven Clocks" (1954) "The Adventure of the Gold Hunter" (1954) "The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers" (1954) "The Adventure of the Highgate Miracle" (1954) "The Adventure of the Black Baronet" (1954) "The Adventure of the Sealed Room" (1954 "The Adventure of Foulkes Rath" (1954) "The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby" (1954) "The Adventure of the Dark Angels" (1954) "The Adventure of the Two Women" (1954) "The Adventure of the Deptford Horror" (1954) "The Adventure of the Red Widow" (1954)

by Nicholas Meyer	The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1974) The West End Horror (1976) The Canary Trainer (1993)

Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King	The Beekeeper's Apprentice A Monstrous Regiment of Women A Letter of Mary The Moor O Jerusalem Justice Hall The Game Locked Rooms The Language of Bees The God of the Hive Pirate King Garment of Shadows Dreaming Spies

The Boy Sherlock Holmes by Shane Peacock	Death in the Air (2008)

by Barrie Roberts	Sherlock Holmes and the Man from Hell Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac

by Anthony Horowitz	The House of Silk (2011) Moriarty (2014)

Other works	Pursuit of the House-Boat (1897) A Double Barrelled Detective Story (1902) The Ultimate Crime (1976) The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (1978) "The Doctor's Case" (1987) All-Consuming Fire (1994) The Strange Case of Mrs. Hudson's Cat (1997) The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (1999) Shadows Over Baker Street (2003) "A Study in Emerald" (2003) Sherlock Holmes: The Way of All Flesh (2004) A Slight Trick of the Mind (2005) The Italian Secretary (2005) Erasing Sherlock (2006) Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (2006) Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong (2007) The Boy Sherlock Holmes (2007–12) Gaslight series (2008) Dust and Shadow (2009) The Devil and Sherlock Holmes (2010) Sherlock Holmes: The Breath of God (2011) Dead Man's Land (2013)

Parody	The Enola Holmes Mysteries Everybody's Favorite Duck The Final Solution The Fossil Island Lizzie Newton: Victorian Mysteries Sherlock Bones Stoker and Holmes Thuppariyum Sambu

Related	Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes

The Fossil Island

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