Posted By Dan Greenfield on Jul 21, 2026 | 1 comment

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:

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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.

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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 Robin, giving the Dynamic Duo both road and air support in the same bright comic-art style as the figure boxes. This lot includes the Batmobile and Batcopter, each with its original box, pairing two of the larger Batman pieces from Mego’s 1970s superhero world.

Both pieces are CAS-graded loose in open boxes and noted as complete. The Batmobile is graded CAS 70+ with a True Grade of 73.5, while the Batcopter is graded CAS 85 with a True Grade of 86.3. A boxed Mego Batman vehicle pairing with the Batmobile and Batcopter, ready to cover Gotham by street or sky, which is still the sensible minimum when the Joker starts making travel plans. Sold for: $781.25.

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DC Robin (488-98) & Batplane (487-98) Lot of 4 Model Kits (Aurora, 1966). This lot includes three Aurora Robin the Boy Wonder model kits, kit no. 488-98, and one Aurora Batplane model kit, kit no. 487-98. Issued during the height of 1960s Batmania, Aurora’s Batman model kits helped bring the Dynamic Duo from television and comic pages into hobby shops, pairing bold character box art with classic all-plastic assembly formats. The Robin kits feature the Boy Wonder in his laboratory-themed pose, while the Batplane box showcases the sleek aircraft in dramatic illustrated flight over Gotham.

All four kits remain sealed in cellophane. The Robin boxes exhibit moderate handling wear, with scuffing, creasing, edge wear, and some looseness to the wrap visible. The Batplane box shows heavier wear, including moderate crushing and significant edge wear from dents and dings that have punctured the cellophane in places. Holy hobby bench, Batman! A sealed Aurora group from the caped-crimefighter craze, ready to swoop into a vintage model collection. Sold for: $750.

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Mego World’s Greatest Super-Heroes Batman (Removable Cowl), Joker, & Batcycle (with Original Box) – Loose (Mego, 1972-74). Mego’s Batman pieces helped anchor the DC side of the World’s Greatest Super-Heroes line, with Batman and the Joker bringing the franchise’s central hero-villain rivalry into the 8-inch cloth-costumed format. This lot includes a removable-cowl Batman, Joker, and Batman’s Batcycle with its original illustrated box, giving the group both character appeal and one of Mego’s key Gotham vehicles.

The box shows creasing, edge and corner wear, surface scuffing, crushing, and general handling wear. The figures show paint wear, fabric wear, age-related material wear, and light soiling, with fraying visible to Joker’s outfit. The Batcycle shows light surface wear but retains its Batman decals, though they are beginning to lift around the edges. An excellent loose Mego Batman group with Gotham’s central hero, his greatest villain, and the Batcycle ready to roll. Sold for: $718.75.

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DC Batman, Robin, Joker, & Green Hornet Hand Puppets (Ideal, 1965-66). This four-piece lot brings together Batman, Robin, Joker, and The Green Hornet in classic 1960s children’s puppet form. Batman, Robin, and The Green Hornet feature vinyl bodies with molded character heads, while Joker uses a cloth body with a molded head, giving the group a nice mix of period construction styles. The Green Hornet also includes a separate blow-mold hat, a great small detail that helps complete the character’s masked crimefighter look.

Puppets exhibit light to moderate age and handling wear, including surface scuffing, paint wear, soiling, discoloration, wrinkling, and creasing to the vinyl bodies. Robin has a small tear below his right arm. Joker’s cloth body shows light fabric wear and minor soiling. Molded heads show scattered paint rubs and age-related surface wear. A colorful 1960s hero-and-villain puppet grouping, with Batman and Robin joined by Joker’s grinning menace and The Green Hornet ready to turn any living-room stage into after-school crimefighting theater. $656.25.

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DC Flying Superman & Batman Toy Lot of 3 (Transogram/Hasbro, 1954-66). This three-piece flying superhero toy lot traces a clever bit of mid-century toy reuse and competition. The loose blow-mold plastic Flying Superman is Transogram’s 1954 release, with outstretched arms and stern face sculpt, while Transogram’s 1966 The Flying Batman reworks that same body concept for the height of Batmania, painting the Superman form into a caped crusader with cowl, belt, and chest emblem. The Hasbro Flying Superman from 1965 takes a different approach, using a softer blue plastic figure and red foam-style cape designed to serve as a gliding surface after launch.

The Transogram Flying Batman and Hasbro Flying Superman remain packaged, while the Transogram Flying Superman is loose. Items exhibit moderate age and storage wear overall, including creasing, scuffing, and curling. The Batman package has a large rip in the front of the plastic wrap. The loose has paint wear and scuffing to the body and cape. A small study in superhero flight toys, from Superman’s stern 1950s launch to Batman’s gloriously economical 1960s repaint, because sometimes the fastest way to Gotham is straight through Metropolis. Sold for: $525.

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Mego World’s Greatest Super-Heroes! 12-Inch Magnetic Batman & Robin – Loose & Open Box (Mego, 1978). Mego’s 12-inch Magnetic Batman and Robin figures gave the Dynamic Duo a built-in action feature, with magnets in their hands and feet allowing them to cling to steel surfaces for wall-scaling, beam-hanging crimefighting play. This lot includes a loose Magnetic Batman and an open-box Magnetic Robin, with Robin appearing unused and still affixed to the original insert tray.

Robin’s box is open and shows general handling wear, including creasing, surface scuffing, edge wear, and tape residue. Robin appears unused and remains attached to the insert tray. Batman shows minimal wear, with staining visible on the cape. A wonderfully odd Mego crimefighting pair, complete with magnetic stunt work for scaling steel buildings and Frigidaires with equal gumption, old chum. Sold for: $362.50.

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DC Batman The Dark Knight Collection Lot of 9 Featuring Batman & Joker Variants (Kenner, 1990-91). Kenner’s The Dark Knight Collection followed the enormous success of Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman, building a toy aisle around movie branding and gadget-heavy. This nine-piece carded lot includes a strong spread of Batman suit and weapon concepts, including Powerwing, Iron Winch, Thunderwhip, Crime Attack, Shadow Wing, Tec-Shield, and Wall Scaler Batman, as well as Sky Escape Joker and Knock-Out Joker. Iron Winch Batman, Thunderwhip Batman, and Wall Scaler Batman have bubbles detached on three sides, leaving the figures exposed and causing significant surface tearing and paper loss on the cards. The remaining items are sealed on cards.

Packaging exhibits light to moderate handling and storage wear, including corner softness, creasing, scuffing, and areas of card curl. Some bubbles show moderate scuffing and compression. A strong early-1990s Batman movie-era assortment, packed with enough capes, claws, wings, winches, and clown-colored artillery to keep Gotham dancing with the devil in the pale moonlight. Sold for: $337.50.

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DC Superman & Batman Lot of 3 Puppets (Ideal/Madison Ltd., 1965-77). This lot brings together three DC superhero puppets, led by Ideal’s Superman hand puppet in its illustrated window box and Madison Ltd.’s Superman Super-Heroes string puppet in its bright yellow box with Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman artwork. Also included is a loose Ideal Batman hand puppet with molded vinyl head and cloth body. The group spans a fun corner of superhero merchandising, where the World’s Finest heroes moved from comic-panel action into kid-powered puppet play.

The boxed Superman hand puppet and boxed Superman string puppet are open but appear unused. The loose Batman puppet includes a cloth body and shows handling wear from play and storage. Packaging exhibits moderate handling wear, including creasing, veining, scuffing, edge wear, flap wear, and crushing. Box windows have begun to detach from the boxes. The top window on the Ideal Superman hand-puppet box has a hole. Up in the sky, down on the hand, or dangling by a string, this DC puppet trio is ready for one more heroic performance. Sold for: $325.

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DC Comics Super Heroes & Batman Movie Carded Figure Lot of 13 (Toy Biz, 1989-91). Toy Biz’s DC Comics Super Heroes line brought together the JLA and several major villains in a bright late-1980s figure format built around character-specific action features. This 13-piece carded lot pairs that broader DC roster with Batman movie-era figures of The Joker and Bob the Goon, giving the group a strong mix of comic-style heroes, rogues, and Tim Burton-adjacent Gotham criminals. The Penguin’s bubble has lifted on three sides, causing significant surface tearing and leaving the figure open. All other items are sealed on their cardbacks.

Packaging exhibits light to moderate handling and storage wear, including corner and edge wear, creasing, scuffing, and card curling. Some bubbles show light to moderate denting, compression, and scuffing, with heavier wear concentrated on the opened Penguin card. A colorful DC shelf-war from the turn of the 1990s, loaded with heroes, villains, gimmicks, and enough oddball action features to fill a whole Saturday afternoon of crimefighting. Sold for: $325.

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Mego World’s Greatest Super-Heroes Robin (Non-Removable Mask), Aquaman, & Hall of Justice Playset with Original Box (Mego, 1972-79). Mego’s late-1970s DC offerings expanded the World’s Greatest Super-Heroes line beyond individual figures into larger team-world pieces, and the Hall of Justice gave the Justice League a headquarters scaled for the company’s 8-inch format. This lot includes the Hall of Justice Playset with its original box, a carded Robin (Type 2 Body) with non-removable mask, and a loose Aquaman (Type-1 Body) with gloves, bringing together the Teen Wonder, the King of Atlantis, and the Super Friends-era command center that made superhero meetings look slightly more official.

The Hall of Justice playset shows age and storage wear, including creasing, edge and corner wear, surface scuffing, and general material wear, with its original box showing heavier wear, including tears, creasing, edge wear, scuffing, and surface loss. The Robin card shows creasing, veining, edge wear, curling, scuffing, & price sticker residue. The bubble has a large crack in the right side, leading to a hole in the bottom-right corner, and mild yellowing. Aquaman shows light age and handling wear. A strong Mego DC grouping with Robin, Aquaman, and the Hall of Justice, because even superheroes need somewhere to gather before the next completely reasonable crisis. Sold for: $275.

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DC Speeding Superman & Climbing Batman – Open Boxes (Remco, 1978). Remco’s Energized Superman and Batman figures took two of DC’s biggest heroes into large-scale action-feature territory, giving Superman a powered “speeding” gimmick with simulated flying action and Batman a cord-based climbing setup for wall-scaling escapes. Both figures lean into the late-1970s superhero toy boom with glow-in-the-dark elements, stick-on insignia labels, and oversized box art. The items appear unused in open boxes.

The boxes show significant to heavy age and storage wear, including creasing, edge and corner wear, surface scuffing, window wear, tears, flap wear, and areas of crushing. The figures and accessories show light storage wear. A sharp Remco DC pairing, one built for flight and one built for the climb, exactly the sort of battery-and-string engineering that made late-1970s superhero toys wonderfully unique. Sold for: $262.50.

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DC Batman Returns Batmissile Batmobile – Open Box (Kenner, 1992). Kenner’s Batmissile Batmobile gave the Batman Returns vehicle a dramatic action-feature upgrade, transforming from the sleek movie-style Batmobile into a narrower missile-launching attack mode. The design plays directly off the film’s armored, jet-black Batmobile presence, while the packaging art leans hard into the reveal with before-and-after transformation panels and gold missile accessories.

Vehicle appears unused in an open box, with accessories still bagged. Packaging exhibits moderate age and storage wear, including corner and edge wear, creasing, scuffing, surface scratches, flap wear, and light crushing. A sharp Batman Returns vehicle with the best kind of Bat-gadget logic, when the road gets too narrow, the car simply becomes more dangerous. Sold for: $129.

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DC Super Powers, Superman, Batman, & Wonder Woman Board Games (Hasbro/Kenner, 1978-84). This DC board game lot gathers four superhero titles from the late-1970s and early-1980s, led by the Super Powers Justice League of America Skyscraper Caper three-dimensional game. Also included are Hasbro’s Superman Game, Batman Game, and Wonder Woman Game, each built around a classic comic-book mission with bold character artwork and play graphics. Together, the group captures DC’s tabletop presence during an era when Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Justice League were moving across toy aisles in games, action figures, and licensed playsets.

The Wonder Woman Game remains sealed in cellophane. The Super Powers, Superman, and Batman games are open, but contents appear unused and complete. Packaging exhibits moderate handling wear with creasing, scuffing, edge wear, corner wear, and age toning visible across the group. The Super Powers box shows heavy crushing and large tears on the side panels. From Skyscraper Caper to Gotham traps and Amazonian spy hunts, this lot brings DC’s big three, and the whole League, to the game table. Sold for: $109.

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