DC Entertainment will release the 1960s Japanese series Batman: The Jiro Kuwata Batmanga in a series of three paperbacks in late 2014, after a digital weekly run, according to the LA Times.
 
The manga series was created in 1966, during the height of the first Batman craze, spurred by the import of the American Batman TV show.  Weekly manga magazine Shonen King licensed the right to commission its own original Batman and Robin stories, which were drawn by manga-ka Jiro Kuwata.
 
Chip Kidd collected much of the series in 2008’s Bat-Manga! The Secret History of Batman in Japan, which was released by Pantheon, which also includes a comprehensive photo collection of vintage Japanese Batman toys and an interview with Kuwata (see "'Bat Manga! The Secret History of Batman in Japan'").
 
This release will include the entire 1,000-plus page run, presented in the original manga right-to-left reading order.  MSRP and release dates on the planned paperback release were not provided.