Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys #1

This volume launches Naoki Urasawa's acclaimed sci-fi thriller, collecting the first chapters of the series. It introduces Kenji Endo and his childhood friends, whose secret childhood club and a strange symbol become entangled with a doomsday cult's sinister plot. The story masterfully shifts between the protagonists' 1960s youth and their adult struggles in 1997, building a dense mystery around prophecy, memory, and a masked figure known as 'Friend.'