1966 O-Pee-Chee Batman #22 Awesome Foursome Riddler Back Batman Series

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1966 O-Pee-Chee Batman #22 Awesome Foursome Riddler Back Batman Series Card 22 is a villain card at heart, and villain cards are what drive demand in the 1966 Batman run. The front shows the interior of a hall lined with rows of seats and figures at work, a scene from the caper in which the four foul finks slip into United World headquarters and make off with atomic secrets, a plot the reverse summarizes with the immortal reaction holy grand larceny. The united villain team up was the kind of escalation the series used to keep audiences returning twice a week, and the 1966 season delivered a rotating gallery of guest stars, from Cesar Romero and Burgess Meredith to Frank Gorshin and Julie Newmar, that made the show appointment television across North America. O-Pee-Chee produced the Canadian version of the card set, and the distinguishing marks are the Printed in Canada line and the dual language decoder instruction on the reverse. That reverse here is the Riddler's Riddle format, asking how is the Bat phone like a stop light, with the answer hidden in a scrambled grid meant to be solved using the red decoder insert. The bilingual line reading place the X's of the decoder over the X's on the card and placer les X du decrypteur sur les X de la carte confirms this as a Canadian O-Pee-Chee bilingual back, the version collectors specifically hunt. corners show moderate to heavy rounding with the lower left the softest of the four, there is edge chipping along the entire left border and across the top with several small nicks, the front displays light surface wrinkling in the upper image area and a faint vertical crease near the right side, the white border carries age toning and scattered handling marks, the black reverse shows print rub and lightening along the edges, and centering favors the right with a narrow right border. The photographic image itself is clear with good contrast between the blue and dark tones. The conservative grade estimate reflects the accumulated edge and corner wear typical of cards that spent the late sixties in a shoebox rather than a sleeve, and buyers should expect a low numeric grade if submitted while still owning an authentic Canadian printing. Grade Estimate: PR 1