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Preview of Bat-Manga!
Posted by Chris Bolton, October 31st, 2008
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Filed under: Miscellany, New Releases.
Graphic designer extraordinaire (and former Powells.com guest blogger) Chip Kidd presents Bat-Manga!, the first collection of Japanese Batman comics anywhere in the world!
Originally published in 1966, at the height of the first worldwide Batman craze, and written and illustrated by manga legend Jiro Kuwata, these adventures were never collected in Japan, and had never been translated into English.
More than just an object of historical curiosity, Bat-Manga! is deliriously entertaining — not only more fun and hyperkinetic (and, well, kind of insane) than the American comics of the time, but even more enjoyable than most superhero comics being published today!
Don't take my word for it — check out this six-page preview of the first "Lord Death Man" comic! Keep in mind that this is Japanese manga, so you read the pages from right to left. If you get lost, just follow the numbers on the panels.
(Click on the thumbnails below for larger images.)
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(And check out the Powells.com interview with Chip Kidd!)
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Chris Bolton co-created Smash, an all-ages web-comic about a ten-year-old superhero, and created the web-series Wage Slaves, which premiered in July 2009. His short story set in Powell's City of Books, "The Red Room," can be found in Portland Noir.
Books mentioned in this post
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$10.95 Used Trade Paper
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Portland Noir (Akashic Noir)
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$29.95 New Trade Paper
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Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan
Chip Kidd and Geoff Spear and Saul Ferris -
$38.50 Used Hardcover
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Bat-Manga! Signed 1st Edition
Chip Kidd and Geoff Spear and Saul Ferris
