The Wonder 3 (Show)

The Wonder 3 show was made in 1965, around the same thing Tezuka's Astro Boy was ending. The Wonder 3 aired in Japan on Fuji TV from June 6, 1965 until June 27, 1966 for a total of 52 episodes. The American version of the series, The Amazing 3, was released in syndication through Erika Productions in 1967. It aired on KCOP-TV (Channel 13) in Los Angeles, California and on WPIX-TV (Channel 11) in New York, New York. The series was also dubbed into Spanish and broadcast in Spanish-speaking countries as Los tres espaciales.

This series was the first Tezuka production in which Tezuka adopted a method of animation which had long been used by Disney and Warner Brothers in which each animator was responsible for drawing a single character instead of the team of animators each taking a piece of a show and drawing everything.

The premise of both the manga series and the anime series started off the same, and the characters looked identical in both incarnations, but the stories differed greatly. Stories that appeared in the manga were not used again for the anime.

English dub
The English dub of this show is incredibly hard to find and is rumored to be destroyed, however somehow some of the existing has appeared on the YouTube channel Rare TezukaVids. It is unknown who they are or how they obtained the footage, but they claim to have 19 of the 52 episodes.