Character
Issen Hage
ー銭ハゲ
Character
Another of Tezuka’s fill-in cast, Issen Hage is a specialist at playing two-bit crooks and other ne’er-do-wells. Self-serving and lazy rather than actually evil, he usually finds himself in a supporting role, as a member of a band of crooks or a nameless henchman under the control of the primary villain – often Hamegg. One of Tezuka’s older Stars, Issen Hage first appeared in the amateur work Old Man’s Treasure Island (1945). However he had to wait until Fossil Island (1951) …
