1966 O-Pee-Chee Batman #27 De-Clawed Catwoman Riddler Back Batman Series

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1966 O-Pee-Chee Batman #27 De-Clawed Catwoman Riddler Back Batman Series Catwoman cards are the ones collectors fight over, and card 27 delivers her in full costume at the climax of her caper. The front places Batman standing tall in front of the Batcomputer bank while Robin kneels beside a seated, subdued Catwoman, a composition that tells the entire story before you turn the card over. The reverse, titled De-Clawed, states plainly that the Catwoman's caper is brought to the end by the Gotham City heroes and that the duo have declawed the villainess. Julie Newmar's Catwoman became one of the defining characters of the 1966 season, and her episodes are still the most watched and most discussed of the entire run, which keeps sustained collector pressure on any card bearing her likeness. This example is the Canadian O-Pee-Chee printing, marked Printed in Canada, and it carries the Riddler's Riddle decoder reverse asking where was King Tut's temple, with the answer concealed in the three row scrambled letter grid. The bilingual instruction line, place the X's of the decoder over the X's on the card together with placer les X du decrypteur sur les X de la carte, confirms this as a Canadian O-Pee-Chee bilingual back rather than an American Topps issue. all four corners are rounded, with the upper right and lower left showing the most fraying and small paper loss, edge chipping is visible along the top and bottom borders, the front shows several soft surface wrinkles running through the lower third of the image and a light crease near the left border, the white border carries even toning and a few dark handling specks, the black reverse displays scuffing and print lightening across the caption panel, and centering is close to even with a marginally wider left border. Importantly the Catwoman figure and both heroes remain crisp and unobstructed, which is what most buyers of a low grade copy actually care about. The conservative grade estimate weighs the corner rounding and multiple wrinkles heavily, as graders consistently do on this black bordered stock, but the character content gives this card meaningfully more market value than a common scene card in identical condition. Grade Estimate: FR 1.5