Case Closed, Vol. 89

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.

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Early Christmas shopping turns less than jolly when the Junior Detective League stumbles on a murder at a department store. Rachel’s self-proclaimed karate rival sends Mr. Moore on the trail of a UFO. And Officer Yumi has to solve a complex puzzle to find out how her boyfriend, Japan’s top shogi champ, really feels about her. Meanwhile, Conan pursues an even more baffling mystery: the identity of “Mary,” the reclusive little girl with connections to some of his most enigmatic allies…

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.