Joel Eisner

Joel Eisner is the author of three successful tv pop culture books
including the bestselling The Official Batman Batbook (selling over 100,000
copies worldwide). He has co-written Lost in Space Forever and Television
Comedy Series: An episode Guide to 153 TV Sitcoms in Syndication.
His most recent book is The Official Batman Batbook Revised Bat-Edition a
newly updated and enlarged version of the original Batbook which
surpasses the original in both scope and content.
Upcoming projects include a film and TV trivia book and a pop culture series of books called Attack of the Rubber-Suit Monsters dealing with the hundreds of films and television series featuring actors in rubber monster, gorilla and robot suits.

TV Historian Joel Eisner received a B.A

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