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Hot Wheels is an American media franchise and brand of scale model cars invented by Elliot Handler and introduced by his company Mattel on May 18, 1968. [2] It was the primary competitor of Matchbox until Mattel bought Matchbox owner Tyco Toys in 1997.
This cast in particular can be seen on 1972 Corgi catalogues and received its Hot Wheels "Final Run" issue in 2002. [citation needed] The Batmobile from the 1966 Batman series was one of the film and TV models sold under the Husky brand. Today it is Corgi Rockets that have become most collectible, no doubt helped by their scarcity.
Mego was a true pioneer in action figure development, responsible for creating the first carded action figure (for S. S. Kresge's), [5] The first exclusive figures (Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson for Montgomery Ward's) [6] and expanded their line to include the 1966 Batman TV series-style Batmobile, the Batcycle. and the Batcopter, as well as ...
The 1966–1968 television series Batman was so popular that its campy humor and its version of Batmobile were imported into Batman's comics. The iconic television Batmobile was a superficially modified concept car, the decade-old Lincoln Futura, owned by auto customizer George Barris, whose shop did the work. [11]
The Batmobile as seen in the 1960s Batman TV series. Photo by Jennifer Graylock. According to Barris, some of his first film work was making soft aluminum fenders for a police car that crashes into the rear of a Mercedes-Benz convertible in North by Northwest. The idea was to give the collision a comedic quality while also preventing serious ...
Pages in category "Batman vehicles" ... Batmobile; Batplane This page was last edited on 28 August 2023, at 21:32 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
The TV series' popularity has continued several decades after its debut; toy company Mattel has made the 1966 Batmobile in various scales for the Hot Wheels product line. The Batmobile with Batboat was also produced under the Matchbox and Corgi names in the UK during this period. Warner Bros. acquired merchandising rights to the series in 2012 ...
The first design of the Jokermobile from Batman #37 (October 1946), art by Jerry Robinson.. The Jokermobile made its comic book debut in Batman #37 (October 1946), [1] in which Joker was fed up with Batman's superior gadgetry that played a role in foiling his criminal plots and so decided to build a series of Joker-themed gadgets, like the Jokermobile, for example, his own themed vehicle ...