{"product_id":"vintage-1966-alan-whitney-batman-signal-bat-decal-sticker","title":"Vintage 1966 Alan-Whitney Batman Signal Bat Sticker - Decal ✨ Dark Knight, Cool!","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"max-width:315px;margin:0 auto 20px;\"\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:177.78%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HkCwo2SJMVk\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;encrypted-media;gyroscope;picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize: 3.5 inches ~\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCool! That's still the only word for these. This is one of their Glo-Colors Bat Stickers: a solid black bat silhouette, wings spread flat and scalloped along the bottom edge, stamped onto a disc of bright fluorescent paper. Peel the kraft backing off and it's ready for a book, a bicycle, an auto bumper, a window or a wagon — that's the maker's own list, not mine. I'm holding a real stack of these: pick Red, Green, Yellow, Pink, Orange, Light Orange or White, or grab all 7 Colors and have the full run.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe maker's own card says it best, so here it is close to word for word: \"5 GLO-COLORS BAT STICKERS, (c) 1966 Alan-Whitney Co. Inc., New Haven, Conn., Made in U.S.A., 5 for 39c, Peel Off Backing Paper — Apply to Any Smooth Surface, for Books, Bicycles, Auto Bumpers, Windows, Wagons, etc.\" Thirty-nine cents for five bat stickers, and a company telling you flat out to stick one on your bike. That's a great pitch on its own, sixty years later. Alan-Whitney was a New Haven, Connecticut outfit, and bat stickers weren't their only novelty — they also made the 1964-65 Space-Bird fabric kite, a nice bit of colour in its own right, and Hal Levine, a name tied to Alan-Whitney Company, is acknowledged in \"The Complete Book of Kites and Kite Flying.\" So this wasn't a nameless factory stamp; it was a small company with a name behind it, making the kind of five-and-dime novelties a kid would actually beg for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1966 also happens to be the year the Batman TV series exploded onto ABC and turned the whole country bat-crazy — Adam West, Burt Ward, POW and ZAP right there in your living room, and every dime store and drugstore counter in America stocking up on anything bat-shaped to catch the wave. Alan-Whitney's own card doesn't carry a Batman name or a comics company's copyright line anywhere on it; it just sells \"Bat Stickers.\" So I read it as a small novelty maker riding a national craze with its own bat design, not as an officially licensed tie-in — and either way, it's exactly the kind of thing that went home from a dime-store counter in 1966 and ended up on a bike fender by the weekend.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese are unused, still riding on their original backing paper — never peeled, never stuck to anything. The kraft-paper liner on the back carries a straight split line - that's where the peel-off backing opens, just as the maker's card says to peel it; that's how a sixty-year-old peel-off backing looks. I've got dozens of these across seven colours, so think of the photo as the floor of the stack, not the ceiling — most of what I'm holding looks just as crisp or crisper than the one pictured. The fluorescent colours especially still glow the way day-glo paper is supposed to; the white runs a little softer and creamier by comparison, which is its own kind of nice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach disc is 3.5 inches across. A full set of seven framed together on a dark mount makes a handsome little grid, bat wings all pointing the same direction. Pick your colour, or take the whole run. 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