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San Diego Comic-Con 2008 - Shonen King
July 23 - 27, 2008 – San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA

From Deb Aoki, About.com

At his Thursday afternoon presentation, Chip Kidd showed an example of Shonen King magazine covers featuring Batman and Robin.
A cover from Shonen King, circa 1967 shown at the Bat Manga! panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2008

A Shonen King cover from 1967, from Bat Manga!

© Deb Aoki

Chip Kidd shared stories and artwork from his upcoming book, Bat Manga! (due out from Pantheon in October 2008) and told stories about the creation of these long-forgotten, original Batman stories drawn and written by Jiro Kuwata, the artist of 8 Man. Kidd also showed examples of covers and toys from Shonen King magazine, the home of these Japanese Batman stories.

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