Bat-Manga! (Limited Hardcover Edition): The Secret History of Batman in Japan (Pantheon Graphic Library) - Tapa dura

Presents a series of Batman-manga stories, originally produced in Japan in the late 1960s, following Batman and Robin as they battle aliens, mutated dinosaurs, and other villains in a distinctively Japanese style, in a volume with photographs of the world's largest collection of vintage Japanese Batman toys and an original Batman adventure, only in the hardcover edition. Simultaneous.

Chip Kidd is a graphic designer and writer in New York City. His two previous books about comics for Pantheon werePeanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz and Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross.Both won the Eisner Award and were national bestsellers.

Geoff Spear is a photographer, living and working in lower Manhattan. For over two decades he has shot hundreds of images for a wide range of book covers, by such authors as Haruki Murakami, John Burdett, Augusten Burroughs, Oliver Sacks and Daniel Gilbert, among many others.

Saul Ferris is a founding partner in the law office of Ferris, Thompson and Zweig, in Gurnee, Illinois. During the last twenty years, he has amassed the most comprehensive collection of vintage Japanese Batman toys and memorabilia in the world.