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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9780375425455
ISBN: 0375425454
Label: Pantheon
Manufacturer: Pantheon
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: October 28, 2008
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date: October 28, 2008
Sales Rank: 19539
Studio: Pantheon
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Product Description:
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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For ANY comics historian this is like a major find on some archiological dig! A must get for Batman fans too!
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I'm a big fan of the original Bob Kane/Bill Finger run on Batman, as well as Manga from the 60s. This book has the feel of both. It's a collection of several issues of the Batman Manga from the 60s. The stories take some of the classic villians (like Clayface) and reimagine him. The stories aren't complex, but they are a lot of fun. My only complaint is how incomplete they are. You get part one of a story, but it's missing part two. I'm sure it's just a matter of time until the whole run will be ... Read More
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This is a truly unexpected find. In the introduction Chip Kidd describes how shocked he was to discover that there had been Batman comics produced in Japan back in 1966 describing this find as a `new Holy Bat-Grail'. He presented the information to Paul Levits, the President of DC Comics, saying it was like presenting the skull of John the Baptist to the Pope. Right from the start it's obvious that Chip Kidd is more than a guy putting out some Batman material, he's a major Batman fan producing a ... Read More
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I wouldn't say these stories are any good - they really aren't - but they are rambunctious and joyous and campy in all the ways you want Batman manga from the 60s and 70s to be. Some props are certainly to be given to Mr. Jiro Kuwata, who took a distinctly American icon and recast him as a Japanese superhero. Not always successfully, mind you, but with creativity and aplomb that any creator would love to have. If Tezuka was the Japanese version of Jack Kirby, then maybe Kuwata was Chris Claremont ... Read More
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In 1966, Shonen King and Shonen Gaho were two weekly comic anthologies that wanted to capitalize on the new U.S. Batman TV shows that were being broadcast in Japan. They commissioned manga master, Juro Kuwata to write and illustrate Batman stories for the Japanese public. Forty years later, Chip Kidd and Anne Ishi have translated these forgotten stories.
Tales include:
The Terrible Clayface Encounter
Lord Death Man
Go-Go the Magician
While I enjoyed ... Read More
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