DC Batman Super Top, Water Gun, & Pinball Game (AHI & unknown, 1970s)....

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DC Batman Super Top, Water Gun, & Pinball Game (AHI & unknown, 1970s). This three-piece collection captures the wild and wonderfully unhinged merchandising energy of 1970s Batman merch. Produced during the height of the character's Saturday morning syndication surge, these ungraded oddities hail from an era when "officially licensed" could mean just about anything with a bat on it. The Batman Super Top (AHI, 1977) is a gyro-spinning novelty toy with a molded Batman bust perched inside a plastic top. The card is heavily worn with severe creasing, extreme edge and corner wear, and separation of the cardboard layers. The bubble is severely scuffed and yellowing, with a crack at the bottom and notable lift along the bottom left. The bubble appears to have shifted downward - possibly indicating a prior reattachment. The Batman-shaped water gun is an unbranded Hong Kong-made novelty from the same era, still sealed in its original bag with header card. A piece of the trigger is broken off and loose inside the bag, and despite being unused, the figure exhibits heavy scuffing and surface wear. Rounding out the trio is the Batman Pin Ball Game (AHI, 1976), packaged in its original window box with "twirling wheel fun action." The box shows heavy surface wear and creasing, with multiple taped repairs to the top and bottom flaps, a large tear above the window, and a surface tear on the top-right corner. The game's clear plastic top has yellowed slightly, and the background art has seen some mild fading. See images for further condition details. Items are sold as is. Whether you're a die-hard Bat-fan or just chasing the weirder corners of Gotham's toy shelf, this trio hits like a batarang to the nostalgia gland. From pinball paddles to broken triggers, it's pure vintage vigilante chaos - the only thing missing is the shark repellent.

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