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A birthday tip of the cowl to the late, great Batmanga artist JIRO KUWATA, who was born 90 years ago…
Here are five things I love: 1) The Batman art of Jiro Kuwata. 2) Shrimp chips. 3) The Godzilla movie Ebirah, Horror of the Deep. 4) Hostess ads. 5) All things Japanese Batman.
It’s the late Kuwata’s birthday — he was born April 17, 1935 — so we’re wrapping all of this together with 13th Dimension reader Ken Holtzhouser’s Hostess ad send-up from the never-finished fan project Batman ’66 Meets Godzilla (which I still hope gets completed):
Love the green Menko-card outfit.
By the way, if you’ve never seen 1966’s Ebirah, there’s a dance contest at the beginning with music that sounds suspiciously familiar.
Dig this:
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MORE
— TOKYO MEETS GOTHAM: An Incredible INSIDE LOOK at One of the World’s Greatest BATMAN Collections. Click here.
— YUJI UEDA’s Top 13 BATMAN COLLECTIBLES. Click here.
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