Batman '66

The setting has been used in crossovers since 2016: Batman '66 Meets the Green Hornet, Batman '66 Meets the Man from U.N.C.L.E, Batman '66 Meets Steed and Mrs. Peel, Batman '66 Meets Wonder Woman '77, and Archie Meets Batman '66.

• Schedule — Monthly • Publisher — DC Comics • Date — July 2013 – February 2016 • Startmo — July • Startyr — 2013 • Endmo — February • Endyr — 2016 • Issues — 30 • Main Char Team — Batman and Robin • Writers — Jeff Parker • Artists — Mike Allred (cover) Various (interior) • Subcat — DC Comics • Sort — Batman '66

In 2013, DC began publication of Batman '66, which tells all-new stories set in the world of the 1966–1968 TV series. It was written by Jeff Parker, and featured cover art by Mike Allred while interior art was done by different artists each issue. Original characters from the television series such as the Bookworm, the Minstrel, the Sandman, Olga, Queen of the Cossacks, Zelda the Great, Shame, King Tut, and Marsha, Queen of Diamonds all made their first comic book appearances in the series. The Joker, The Penguin, Riddler, Catwoman and Mr. Freeze also appeared in the series. Characters who were not featured in the television series (some of them were created after the series ended) also appeared in Batman '66, with Red Hood and Dr. Quinn appearing in issue #3, Poison Ivy in issue #26, Bane in issue #27, The Scarecrow and Killer Croc in issue #28, Kobra in issue #72, Copperhead in Batman '66 Meets Wonder Woman '77 issue #5, Professor Hugo Strange in Batman '66 Meets the Man from U.N.C.L.E., and Ra's al Ghul and Talia al Ghul in Batman '66 Meets Wonder Woman '77. Also, new characters and vehicles were created for the series such as the Bat-Jet, used to follow False-Face to Mount Rushmore, as well as a new villainess named Cleopatra. The series was released both physically and digitally. The series was cancelled in 2015, with physical issue #30, cover-dated February 2016, and digital issue #73. In April 2014, the first five issues were collected for the Batman '66 Vol. 1 trade paperback. Additional volumes collecting the rest of the issues have since been released. Writer Len Wein and artist José Luis García-López produced a comics adaptation of Harlan Ellison's outline for a Two-Face intended for the original 1960s TV series. In June 2014, Kevin Smith and Ralph Garman's six-issue Batman and the Green Hornet crossover miniseries, Batman '66 Meets The Green Hornet, began publication. There are also three other crossover miniseries with fellow 1960s and 1970s TV shows; The Man from U.N.C.L.E. with Batman '66 Meets the Man From U.N.C.L.E., TV's The Avengers with Batman '66 Meets Steed and Mrs. Peel, and Wonder Woman, as played by Lynda Carter, in Batman '66 Meets Wonder Woman '77. In July 2017, a new crossover one-shot issue called Batman '66 Meets the Legion of Super Heroes was released featuring a crossover with the titular characters. In July 2018, the Batman archvillains attempted to take over Riverdale in the crossover miniseries Archie Meets Batman '66.

This continuity was designated Earth-66 in the post-Dark Crisis multiverse.