At the height the 1960's Batman television show's popularity, a
shonen manga magazine in Japan serialized fifty-three chapters, starring The
Dark Knight, which were all written by Jiro Kuwata. These rare Batman tales were
known by relatively few outside of Japan until award-winning designer Chipp
Kidd's 2008 book, Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan
(Pantheon Books), introduced them to a whole new generation of Batman
fans.