Case Closed, Vol. 88

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.

BATTLE OF THE BANDS

Officer Yumi tracks a murder suspect to a ramen restaurant. Can Conan identify the killer by condiment choice alone? Then Conan and Harley Hartwell investigate a death on the set of a zombie movie, only to be attacked by the walking dead! And Serena starts a band, but her music career skips a beat when a drummer is murdered—and Sera remembers a fateful encounter with a bass player who may have been one of the Men in Black!

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.