Is this a scan of your actual book?

In terms of show tie-ins, I had some of the Batman bubble gum cards, the ones with photos from the show. 

We had that book! I haven't thought of it in years.

I didn't know that the Conan paperback series started in 1966. I didn't start buying them until after I'd seen Marvel's Conan, and the first issue I saw of that was #7.

I read Sport magazine at the barber shop. I might have read that issue; 1966 was the year I got really deeply into baseball.

Someday I hope to catch up with this thread.

Fantastic Four #55
Justice League of America #47

Just two that I can remember at the time ...

July, 1966:



I now have many of the comics that came out this month, but can only recall buying one, Adventure 348.




I recall being thrilled to see that Invisible Kid, who was a dark horse, an outsider, whatever you wanted to call him, is elected Legion leader in this issue’s “lettercol.”

 

This was a fallow month for me, part of a fallow stretch, really, that would not end until the fall of 1967, when I began buying everything in sight.
 I must have been playing a lot of baseball that summer.

Batmania is making itself known.

Robin gets prominent play on the cover of Teen Titans 5, even to giving him an inset above the logo. (Inexplicably, it’s a Robin from the 40s or 50s.)



Batman 184 doesn’t show much influence form the TV show except for the prominence of the Hot Line, which was, IIRC, a contrivance introduced on the show and made a big deal of, what with its glowing red color, the urgent beeping, and its cake-styled plastic cover.

Detective 355 has a non-campy cover as well, complete with a villain far too grim to have been used on the TV show, but the copy succumbs to the fad, with “Holy Gallows!” used to lure us in to the story of the Hooded Hangman. In another concession, or appeal, to Batman’s burgeoning popularity, the Detective logo is shrunk and shares the top space with the logo from Batman, complete with an arrow telling us that Detective features Batman, for all the newbies to comics. This is the third issue to feature this revision; it would be featured through the May, 1967 issue, #365.

We see the same reduction in size of the logo on World’s Finest 160, so that Batman’s logo can be set atop Superman’s. This would last through issue 172, published in October, 1967.

     

JLA 47 might as well be an issue of Batman, given that he is essentially the only member noticeable in the cover illustration, and this on the second half of the annual JLA-JSA team-up. Unless you hold it up close and squint, you can’t see Flash, Hawkman or Dr. Fate. Oh, there are the nice portraits up and down the sides, but it’s pretty clear that this one, like the issue before (perhaps the most egregious example of a DC cover influenced by the TV show), was aimed at fans who had entered the comics tent via the TV door.

   

Outside of those instances, though, no other signs on covers of the Batman craze… except for the characters who are an indirect result of the increased interest in superheroes per se.



For a few months now, House of Secrets is set up like a Marvel divided comic with Eclipso sharing the book with Prince Ra-Man, formerly plain old Mark Merlin. Ra-Man, whose power is NOT being able to cook himself in a dorm room in 30 seconds, is a bland knock-off of Dr. Strange.  Eclipso is an attempt to imitate a trope Marvel ahs down pat: the hero-villain. A smidgen of the Hulk, a dash of Namor, and DC thought it had the formula.



House of Mystery has been showcasing Dial H for HERO for several issues, with three (usually) campy (always) new heroes every issue.



Mystery in Space, formerly all s-f all the time, now headlines Ultraa the Multi-Alien, essentially a superhero in outer space.

Each of these series pre-date the Batman TV show, but no doubt, DC thought that they would benefit from the camp superhero fad. I wonder if any of these characters had been in danger of cancellation, but were kept going courtesy the Bat-Fad.

Thanks for the memory aid, Farrar! I think that Mort must have been referrign to the election there as well. Now that you mention it, I think that the election, which meant knowing who voted for whom, was always/usually shown in the stories. I wonder if this was the frat time that happened.

Oh, you may be right about Batman comics. Of course, given the kind of distribution system we ahd to copw with then, who knows but that some wise guys figured they'd grab a few bundles and speculate on them.

One more year...