Batman, the animated series : a pop-up playbook / [paper engineer, Keith Moseley ; Batman created by Bob Kane]

Moseley, Keith. Kane, Bob

ISBN 10: 0316177881 / ISBN 13: 9780316177887

Published by [Boston] : Little, Brown, 1994

About this Item

Toy and movable books: specimen. Fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Literally as new, still shrink-wrapped. Physical description; 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm. Subjects; Batman (Comic strip). Caricatures and cartoons. Strip cartoons; United States. 1 Kg.

Seller Inventory # 356677

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Batman, the animated series : a pop-up playbook / [paper engineer, Keith Moseley ; Batman created by Bob Kane]
• Publisher: [Boston] : Little, Brown
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316177881
• ISBN 13: 9780316177887
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Moseley, Keith
• Edition: Hardback edition.

About this title

Synopsis

Press-out figures and four pop-up play areas are revealed upon opening this oversized interactive book, in which Batman confronts Poison Ivy, Two-Face, and the Joker to rescue Catwoman and a precious stolen parchment.

Reviews

Holy paper engineering! A comic strip-style story--involving a stolen parchment and the kidnapping of Catwoman--begins on this volume's front cover. The book opens to reveal the Batcave--our hero's headquarters--complete with working Batcomputer: images of the cowled crusader's arch enemies are displayed on-screen, via a rotating paper dial. The saga of the missing artwork is continued on three large flaps which unfold (around what becomes the center panel) to reveal the elaborate pop-up hideaways of villains Two-Face, Poison Ivy and the fiendish Joker. Pull-tabs activate Two-Face's twin battle-axes and Poison Ivy's man-eating houseplant, while a cleverly engineered cardboard lever allows readers to rescue a trussed Catwoman from a fatal conveyer-belt ride. Punch-out figures of the story's main players can be moved through the locales; a "punch-out storage area" is also provided. The vertiginous perspectives of the moody, detailed artwork are particularly distinctive; however, the truncated plot makes repeated "readings" unlikely. Ages 6-10.
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