Sunday, January 31, 2010

Walkie Talkies and Wallet!

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I really don't quite understand figural walkie-talkies, even though they still make them today (I know I've seen some for the Spider-Man movies)... figural AM radios? Yeah, maybe... the Batman case used here was also used for a radio, by the way!

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These are really, really bad bootleg walkie talkies...

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On the other hand, this is a pretty cool wallet, even if it is mostly yellow!

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Villain Tapestries and Batmobile Figurines!!

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I think somewhere in my photo files, I may have the Riddler and Catwoman versions of these... awesome vintage artwork on them!

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These rather goofy-looking figures of Batman and Robin apparently belong in a Batmobile made by a company called Wader!

Friday, January 29, 2010

Magnets, Stickers and Coloring Book!

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Man, I wish I had these on my refrigerator!

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Nice vintage sticker set here!

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I wish these 1960s Batman coloring books weren't so darned expensive, because I'd love to collect them and present scans of the pages on the Random Acts of Geekery's "Children's Book Theatre" posts!

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Utility Belts!

There've been a number of utility belts put out over the years...

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This Remco-manufactured one is probably the one most familiar to Batman fans around my age... pretty lame, but it was the best we had available in the late 1970s!

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This is an earlier version of the Remco set... not sure why there were changes made!

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This one was much cooler, I believe this is a custom-made item!

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This is a loose (and probably incomplete) version of the utility belt Ideal produced in the 1960s!

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Lousy Bootleg, Uruguay Game & Nightlights!

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Man, even for knockoff, bootlegged stuff, this is shoddy, isn't it?

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Wow, that game looks like it'd be awfully annoying after a while...

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I don't know if these Uruguay nightlights are licensed items or not, but they are definitely cool!

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

UK Pen, Movie Poster, and Ring Toss Game!

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This has to be one of the cheapest items to produce that was put on a card to sell!

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I don't see a whole lot of difference between this poster and the USA one, but the seller insisted it was the UK one!

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This UK ring toss game looks a bit odd to me, but I can't quite figure out why...

Monday, January 25, 2010

Special Announcement!

A change is under way here at the Batcave Trophy Room! In an effort to help me in the production of this blog, instead of mutliple posts in a single day, I'm going to start doing one post, even if it's featuring a number of different items in that post -- kind of like the Fortress of Solitude Trophy Room's style!

1968 UK Annual!

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For the uninitiated, the United Kingdom would produce hardcover comics collections once a year, called "Annuals," naturally enough... some of them even appear to be the only appearance of those characters each year in a comic format!

Anyway, I'm guessing that this one is either reprinting DC stories similar in tone to the Adam West series, or it's all new stuff.

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Here's another annual, although I don't know what year this one came out!

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Batman TV Show Magazine Covers & Promos!

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Not often you see magazine covers concerning the tv series using the comics' logo and artwork, is it?

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Here's the presskit that ABC distributed to promote the show!

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And here's a poster promoting a TV sweepstakes!

Saturday, January 23, 2010

T-Shirts!

Here's a few vintage Batman t-shirts!

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Tru-Dimension!

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I remember seeing things like this advertised in the comics, but the Batman one is the only one I've seen on eBay so far!

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So far, I've seen this offered twice over a year and a half!

Friday, January 22, 2010

Tru-Vue!

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Tru-Vue was an early competitor for Sawyer's View-Master, and as you can see, they were the first to produce a Batman set! Once Sawyer bought Tru-Vue, they adapted a lot of the Tru-Vue stuff to View-Master sets, including this one!

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Here's the same set with a Tru-Vue viewer!

Transogram Bat-Toys!

Been a while since I've posted pictures of a Batman Bank, eh?

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I've actually got a few pictures of this one in my files, this one's the best!

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I think I've posted a smaller photo of this flying Batman toy from Transogram before!

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and here it is again!

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Traceagraphs and Trace and Color!

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Yep, throughout the years, there've been a number of items to help you draw Batman and related characters, all involving cheap plastic light tables! The middle one is from 1966!

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Transfer Book!

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Here's one of those items that, if I were to ever get hold of one, I'd scan the sucker in so I could print out copies on transfer paper to make my own t-shirts... heck, I'd probably post the scans sooner or later so others could do the same, now that I think of it!

T-Strip Top!

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One of the odder Batman items here... use the T-strip to rev up the top and watch it go! I'd imagine no matter how well it's designed, sooner or later Batman starts spinning, too...

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Toothbrushes!

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I can absolutely picture Adam West's Batman endorsing this kind of product, can't you?

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As you can tell, they pop up fairly often on eBay!

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Here's another one from 1977... watch where you're putting that hand, Batman!

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Heck, there was even an official Batman toothpaste for a while!

Monday, January 18, 2010

Tin Top from Japan!

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Yes, there were a lot of tin Batman toys made in Japan!

Retro Tin Sign!

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This may have been a 1980s item, designed to look like a 1970s item!