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. Now, hundreds of pages of Batman-manga comics more than four decades old are translated for the first time, appearing alongside photographs of the world's most comprehensive collection of vintage Japanese Batman toys.

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. Now, hundreds of pages of Batman-manga comics more than four decades old are translated for the first time, appearing alongside photographs of the world's most comprehensive collection of vintage Japanese Batman toys.

Developed by the experts at Living Language, this book offers a highly effective combination of conversational Japanese with grammar and culture. It covers the equivalent of two years of college-level study.