1966 O-Pee-Chee Batman #20 Attacked Shark Scene Riddler Back Batman Series

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1966 O-Pee-Chee Batman #20 Attacked Shark Scene Riddler Back Batman Series This is the shark card, and every Batman collector knows exactly which moment it commemorates. The front shows Batman suspended from the Batcopter ladder in bright open water with a shark clamped onto his leg, the single most parodied image in the character's entire screen history, drawn from the 1966 Batman feature film that carried the television cast onto the big screen. The reverse, titled Attacked, states it plainly, a shark attacks the Caped Crusader, Batman battles it, but did not bring along any anti shark spray. That gag became shorthand across decades of internet culture, which gives this particular card crossover demand well beyond the traditional vintage non sport audience. The 1966 movie was produced between the first and second television seasons and assembled Penguin, Joker, Riddler and Catwoman into a single plot, and the card program captured its highlights for both the American Topps issue and the Canadian O-Pee-Chee issue. This copy is the Canadian printing, carrying the Printed in Canada line and the Riddler's Riddle decoder reverse, which asks who is often cold but never frozen and hides the answer in a scrambled letter grid. The bilingual instruction, place the X's of the decoder over the X's on the card alongside placer les X du decrypteur sur les X de la carte, confirms a Canadian O-Pee-Chee bilingual back. corners are rounded with the upper left and lower left showing fraying and minor paper loss, edge chipping is present along the left border and in shorter runs along the bottom, the front shows a soft vertical crease toward the right side of the image and light surface wrinkling below the shark, the white border carries toning and scattered handling marks, the black reverse has heavy print wear with the caption panel noticeably lightened, and centering is slightly left with a narrow left border. Despite the wear the light blue water background keeps the image bright and instantly recognizable from across a room. The conservative grade estimate accounts for corner loss and creasing, but the iconic subject matter means this card commands a premium over common scene cards in matching condition, and low grade copies of the shark card consistently move faster than anything else in the set. Grade Estimate: FR 1.5