1966 Topps Batman Red Bat A Series trading cards see the Caped Crusader continue to keep Gotham City safe from an increasingly strange mix of rogues. Although not a direct sequel to the earlier Black Bat release, this one carries on with a similar design and structure. That means more Norman Saunders art and new mini stories to be told.
1966 Topps Batman Red Bat A Series Checklist Overview
With just 44 cards, the Red Bat set is a little smaller than Black Bat’s 55. However, it’s a lot more strange. Whereas the Black Bat set unfolds like a handful of small, self-contained stories, 1966 Topps Batman Red Bat cards are virtually all on their own. Subsets do exist within the checklist but that’s more to do with the puzzle pieces on the back than any sort of running narrative. The Caped Crusader can go from stopping a spy at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on one card to battling a giant spider in Africa on the next.
Although increasingly bizarre — which is saying a lot for a comic book with a rogue’s gallery that includes characters named The Joker, Catwoman and Penguin — the art work stays in line with the previous release. Norman Saunders, a Topps legend whose other credits include Mars Attacks and Civil War News, does the paintings once again. The style keeps in line with the Adam West TV show, albeit with a pulp style twist.
You’ll find some classic villains, but the majority of the 1965 Topps Batman Red Bat checklist features some oddities. Pirates, cowboys and wave-riding bank robbers are some of the nefarious foes the Caped Crusader and Robin encounter.
As part of the overall group of 1966 Topps Batman trading cards, A Series cards are popular. However, they don’t have quite the same prestige or values as their Black Bat counterparts. A big part of that is timing. Black Bat has some of the first appearances of Batman and other classic characters. This is a second series. Fun? Sure, but not quite the same.
1966 Topps Batman Red Bat A Series Checklist
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Set size: 44 cards
Cards per pack: 5
Packs per box: 24
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Base Set Checklist
44 cards.
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1A The Ghostly Foe
2A Grappling a Gator
3A The Menacing Mummy
4A Target of the Trapper
5A Pendulum Peril
6A Facing the Axe
7A The Batline Life-Line
8A Tentacled Terror
9A Knighting a Thief
10A Cycling Crusader
11A Landing a Big One
12A Boiling Bath
13A Out on a Limb
14A Danger in the Depths
15A Gotham Gallants
16A Portable Bat Signals
17A Link to Lincoln
18A Death Spins a Web
19A Leap for Life
20A Surfing Sleuths
21A Batman Wins a Prize
22A Death Skis the Slopes
23A Battling Nature’s Fury
24A Tight Squeeze
25A In the Bat Lab
26A The Joker’s Last Laugh
27A Striking Out the Cobra
28A Victorious Duo
29A Danger from 25th Century
30A Undone by an Umbrella
31A Flying Foes
32A Captain Kidd’s Caper
33A Dynamite in Robin’s Nest
34A The Batman Baby Sitter
35A Crime above the Harbor
36A Cliff Hangers
37A Watery Warfare
38A In the Path of Death
39A Stopping the Sub
40A Inferno of Flame
41A Duel of Death
42A Counterfeit Caped Crusader
43A Menace in Fairyland
44A Batman on Broadway
