Case Closed, Vol. 79

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Can Detective Conan crack the case...while trapped in a kid's body? When ace high school detective Jimmy Kudo is fed a mysterious substance by a pair of nefarious men in black-poof! He is physically transformed into a first grader. Until Jimmy can find a cure for his miniature malady, he takes on the pseudonym Conan Edogawa and continues to solve all the cases that come his way. CONAN EDOGAWA'S DRACULA Can the Kaito Kid nab a gem attached to a turtle in an aquarium? Conan wants to make sure that this time the master thief ends up all wet! Then Harley Hartwell tries to deduce how a man could be murdered while alone in an elevator. When Conan and Harley investigate a supposed vampire curse, they find a case they can really sink their teeth into. Someone is eliminating the members of a wealthy family using methods straight out of Dracula lore!

Gosho Aoyama made his debut in 1992 with Chotto Matte (Wait a Minute), which won Shogakukan's prestigious Shinjin Comic Taisho (Newcomer's Award for Comics) and launched his career as a critically acclaimed, top-selling manga artist. In addition to Detective Conan, which won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2001, Aoyama created the popular manga Yaiba, which won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1992. Aoyama's manga is greatly influenced by his boyhood love for mystery, adventure and baseball, and he has cited the tales of Arsene Lupin and Sherlock Holmes and the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa as some of his childhood favorites.