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Batmobile Owner's Manual | 
 enlarge | Author: Mike Mcavennie
Creators: Richard Chasemore, E.j. Su
Publisher: DK CHILDREN
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 275278
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 32
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 11.9 x 9.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 0756638399
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9780756638399
ASIN: 0756638399
Publication Date: May 19, 2008
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Book Description
This incredible new format puts Batman fans behind the wheel and under the hood of the coolest car ever imagined! Fabulous photos, illustrations, and diagrams of Jim Lee's Batmobile fill the pages of this super-guide to every Batman fan-and grease monkey-out there.
BATMAN and all related characters and elements are trademarks of DC Comics (c) 2008
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 Not what I hoped it would be. May 28, 2008
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
For years I've been hoping for a book on the many Batmobiles in print and film. I have long collected articles and models of/on Batmobiles. I took a chance on this one, not knowing what it was about. I guess I should have waited until I saw it first. I have no clue as to what Batmobile is in this book. It's not one that I recognize. It appears the author dreamt up his own version, and wrote a book on it. Not there's anything wrong with that, per se, but I think potential buyers should know up front that they won't recognize this particular Batmobile. If you, like me, are waiting for a book that covers the many TV, film, and comic book Batmobiles, you'll have to wait a little longer.
 Whooooooohoooooo! This book rocks! May 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Batmobile: Owners Manual
Some books just need to be looked at from a distance and admired. Have you ever seen any like that? The art shimmers. The layout sparkles. The art speaks...you don't need to read to appreciate.
The "Batmobile Owners Manual" is like that, except to fully experience this book, you must open the lenticular cover of the new Batmobile with the flames shooting out the back. All this cover needs is a voice chip...Vroom...atomic batteries to power....
If any book has testosterone, this is it! Really. The cover rocks, but the interior design and text by Mike Avennie is oustanding. Not many people have really got to stand beside the Batmobile and read the spec, or touch the dash, but now you can. Mike discusses the dashboard, weapons and defense, the test chamber, the forensic lab, the wheels, and a really cool Batcave page reminiscent of the Neal Adams design from the 70's. They haven't forgotten the classic Batmobiles either, so don't get your cape in a knot. George Barris is accounted for.
DK has taken a page out of Insight Editions' design crew and made many of the pages fold out and fold up with pockets and touch me panels. Ever want to match the Bat car, check the color swatches out.
Probably the best thing in this book is the trouble shooting manual. If your voice command doesn't work, what do you do? Onstar won't help with this one, but resetting the computer might.
Can't say why I love this book so much. Perhaps it brings out the kid in me. Will they ever do one like this for the Classic 60's version?
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Batsignal on.
Tim Lasiuta
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