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Bat-Manga! The Secret History of Batman in Japan - Limited Edition Hardcover
- Item Number
- 529
- Estimated Value
- 100 USD
- Sold
- 35 USD to richmo
- Number of Bids
- 5 - Bid History
Item Description
Superhero Collectors Alert! Get your Bat-Manga here! This is an invaluable, long-lost chapter in the history the timeless Dynamic Duo comics. This is a limited-edition hardcover, signed by the author and photographer, with distinctly different covers, full-color printed endpapers, and an amazing extra adventure.
Bat-Manga! The Secret History of Batman in Japan is more than a dazzling novelty, it’s a serious work of pop culture history. 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 Chip Kidd’s BAT-MANGA!, hundreds of pages of Batman-manga comics, more than 40-years-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 and written an amazing new adventure for Batman and Boy Wonder.
Item Special Note
Signed by Chip Kidd (Author) and Geoff Spear (photographer)
Bid on this item at our live event, Sat. April 2 at Stephan Weiss Studio, 711 Greenwich St. Purchase tickets here.
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