(Download) [PDF] Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in
Japan
By Chip Kidd
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
