![]() Ĭhip Kidd met Batman collector Saul Ferris through eBay when Kidd was bidding on what he thought was a rare, mint Japanese Batmobile toy. ![]() When the TV series came out in the US, Chip stayed loyal to the series even while his friends started watching Happy Days. Chip Kidd had been a serious fan of Batman ever since the age of two. The Japanese told him about a manga adaptation of Batman, information he later passed along to his good friend, premiere designer and novelist Chip Kidd. ![]() ĭavid Mazzuchelli, creator of Batman: Year One, became aware of "Batman" manga's existence when he went to Japan for a cartoonists convention in the early 1990s. In 1967, the stories stopped and were never compiled into volume format. In response to this, the shōnen magazine Shōnen King and its publisher Shōnen Gahōsha licensed the rights to make their own Batman stories, with the full consent of the original Batman publisher, DC Comics. In 1966, the Batman TV series starring Adam West prompted a Batman craze in Japan. The digital run will be followed by a complete three-volume release in both print and digital form some time during or after the run. ![]() In July 2014, DC Comics started to release the entire Japanese Batman manga in English through ComiXology as a Digital First series The Jiro Kuwata Batmanga, with a new chapter going online each week. On October 28, 2013, the entire 53 chapter run of the series was released in Japan as a three volume-box set. The manga was released in paperback and at the same time a limited hardcover was released on October 28, 2008, with an additional manhua bootleg and an extra Batman story by the creator. The Batman manga included in Bat-Manga! was created during a Batman craze in Japan, being serialized from April 1966 to May 1967 the series ended when the craze ended. It collects a Japanese shōnen manga adaptation of the American comic book series Batman by Jiro Kuwata simply entitled Batman ( バットマン, Battoman) and also includes photographs of vintage Batman toys from Japan. The book was designed by Chip Kidd, the content was sourced from Saul Ferris’ extensive collection of Japanese Batman manga, toys and ephemera, which was photographed by frequent collaborator Geoff Spear. ![]() Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan is a 2008 book published by Pantheon Books, subsidiary of Random House, in the United States. ![]()
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