Marissa Brassfield
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In many industries, another culture’s reinterpretation of a beloved icon is often met with harsh criticism and deemed a “knock-off.” A new book co-authored by Chip Kidd, Saul Ferris and Geoff Spear called ‘Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan’ documents the notable exception to this rule. The 384-page book mixes translated versions of the original Batman manga comics alongside photos of vintage Japanese Batman toys. You can buy ‘Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan’ here.  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.
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