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Bat-Manga!

The Secret History of Batman in Japan

By Chip Kidd

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| Hardcover | 9780375425455

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The two hottest genres in comics gleefully collide head-on, as the most beloved American superhero gets the coolest Japanese manga makeover ever.

In 1966, during the height of the first Batman craze, a weekly Japanese manga anthology for boys, Shonen King, licensed the rights to commissi Continue

The two hottest genres in comics gleefully collide head-on, as the most beloved American superhero gets the coolest Japanese manga makeover ever.

In 1966, during the height of the first Batman craze, a weekly Japanese manga anthology for boys, Shonen King, licensed the rights to commission its own Batman and Robin stories. A year later, the stories stopped. They were never collected in Japan, and never translated into English. Now, in this gorgeously produced book, hundreds of pages of Batman-manga comics more than four decades old are translated for the first time, appearing alongside stunning photographs of the world’s most comprehensive collection of vintage Japanese Batman toys.

This is The Dynamic Duo as you’ve never seen them: with a distinctly Japanese, atomic-age twist as they battle aliens, mutated dinosaurs, and villains who won’t stay dead. And as a bonus: Jiro Kuwata, the manga master who originally wrote and drew this material, has given an exclusive interview for our book.

The deluxe, expanded, and limited hardcover edition has a distinctly different cover, full-color printed endpapers, and an amazing extra adventure written by Jiro Kuwata (not included in the paperback), about a band of rogue alien robot art thieves at large in Gotham City. Guess who gets called in to save the day....

More than just a dazzling novelty, Bat-Manga! is an invaluable, long-lost chapter in the history of one of the most beloved and timeless figures in comics.

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  • Bookreporter.com - BAT-MANGA!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan by Chip Kidd

    Few things get comic book fans --- not to mention hardcore Batman lovers --- more irate than the thought of the campy 1960s “Holy haberdashery!”-era “Batman” TV show. It took 20 years and the vision of director Tim Burton for the Batman mythos to liv ... (read full critics)

    bookreporter published on Thu, 2 Sep 2010

  • Bat-Manga!

    The campy, Pop-art-infused Batman television series that débuted in 1966 was not just a hit in the U.S.; it also set off an international wave of Batmania. A Tokyo publisher licensed the comic-book rights and new weekly Batman adventures appeared for ... (read full critics)

    newyorker published on Thu, 26 Aug 2010

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  • Hardcover 384 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 0375425454
  • ISBN-13: 9780375425455
  • Publisher: Pantheon
  • Pub date: Oct 28, 2008
  • Also available as: Others
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