And the prices weren’t outrageous! Well, mostly not… Heritage Auctions over the weekend held one of its periodic pop-culture toy auctions and there just happened to be 13 (+1) vintage lots focused on (mostly) Silver and Bronze Age Batman. The big prize was an Adam West-style Japanese tin robot from the 1960s that went for a cool $25,000, including buyer’s premium. But there were 13 other lots filled with Bat-toys that are worth your attention. Dig these, along with their official descriptions and sale prices, including buyer’s premium. Some of the lots were downright affordable, relatively speaking and depending upon your personal situation. In descending order of sale price: — DC Batman Japanese Tin Robot with Original Box (Tada, 1960’s). Produced for the Japanese market by Tada during the height of Batman’s 1960s television-era popularity, this large tin wind-up Batman robot is one of the great oddities of international DC toy collecting. The toy stands apart from American Batman merchandise of the period, presenting the Caped Crusader as a long-legged mechanical figure with a tin body, painted vinyl head, soft-goods cape, and key-wind walking action. The original illustrated box elevates the piece from a scarce toy to a remarkably complete snapshot of how Batman was marketed to Japanese audiences in the 1960s, with Japanese Batman title graphics, cityscape artwork, Atom/Tada branding, and broadcast text promoting the program’s Sunday evening airing on Fuji TV and Kansai TV. It is a vivid piece of mid-century character licensing, where American superhero iconography, Japanese tin-toy engineering, and television-era Batman mania all meet in one unmistakable package. The toy shows scattered paint wear, scuffing, scratches, and handling wear, with wear visible to the tin body, limbs, boots, head, and cape. The original box shows moderate storage wear, including edge and corner wear, creasing, scuffing, toning, small tears, and flap wear. The cardboard insert/support is included. This mechanical toy has not been tested, and no guarantee can be made regarding its working condition. A rare Japanese Batman tin with original-box presence, this is the Caped Crusader at his strangest and most international, part superhero, part robot, and all 1960s spectacle. Sold for: $25,000. — Mego World’s Greatest Super-Heroes Batmobile CAS 70+ & Batcopter CAS 85 – Loose (Mego, 1974-79). Mego’s World’s Greatest Super-Heroes line expanded beyond its 8-inch figures with vehicles scaled for Batman and...