Bat-Manga: the lost Japanese Batman comics of 1966

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Bat-Manga: the lost Japanese Batman comics of 1966

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There's a new collection of 1960s Batman manga edited by Chip Kidd that sounds pretty interesting:

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/29/ba ... st-ja.html

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I am really interested in this!!

it is incredible to have this kind of bizarre things translated!!

I hope the softcover isnt so expensive!!

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Here's a Wired.com story with more information on this book:

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/10 ... docum.html

The BoingBoing entry failed to mention that the 60s Batman manga was created by Jiro Kuwata, the co-creator of 8 Man, which is generally considered to be the first cyborg manga.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiro_Kuwata
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Didn't Kia Asamiya (Silent Möbius, Steam Detectives etc) draw some Batman stories a few years ago?
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Batman: Child of Dreams by Kia Asamiya

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