Batman Logo 'The Puzzles Are Coming'
Story Code '9731-Part 1'

by Fred DeGorter
Batman Cast

Holy Cryptic Clues! The Puzzler sends a backwards puzzle in a toy plane through the office window of Commissioner Gordon. Rushing to the scene, Batman and Robin decipher a reference to Artemus Knab, a multi-billionaire currently staying at the Gotham Arms hotel. The two heroes speed off in the Batmobile to Knab’s penthouse apartment, but their warning is ignored by the multi-billionaire, who reveals that he is actually working with the Puzzler on a legitimate puzzle balloon business, and then gives the duo a free sample. However, The Caped Crusader and his trusty chum are still wary, and soon learn that the cryptic crook is planning to rob Knab and his wealthy guests at the christening of his news supersonic plane, the Retsoor. However, the Dynamic Duo arrive too late to stop the Puzzler and his gang, Blimpy, Glider, Ramjet, and Rocket O'Rourke, from immobilising the attendees with Puzzle Gas, and as the crooks steal everyone’s jewels, they then turn the gas on Batman and Robin…

Adam West (Bruce Wayne / Batman), Burt Ward (Dick Grayson / Robin), Alan Napier (Alfred Pennyworth), Madge Blake (Aunt Harriet Cooper), James Hamilton (Police Commissioner Gordon), Stafford Repp (Police Chief O’Hara), William Dozier (Narrator), Maurice Evans (The Puzzler), Barbara Stuart (Rocket), Paul Smith (Artemus Knab), Robert Miller Driscoll (Blimpy), Alan Emerson (Glider), Jay Della (Ramjet), William Fawcett (Farmer)

Directed by Jeffrey Hayden
Produced by Howie Horwitz
Executive Producer William Dozier
Batman Created by Bob Kane


TX (US):
21st December 1966

Bat-Notes:
*Featuring Bruce Wayne (a.k.a. Batman), Dick Grayson (a.k.a. Robin), Alfred Pennyworth, Aunt Harriet Cooper, Police Commissioner Gordon and Police Chief O’Hara

*The original script was a Riddler story, ‘A Penny For Your Riddles’ and ‘They're Worth a Lot More!’; however, when Frank Gorshin was unavailable, it was rewritten to feature a new villain, Mr. Conumdrum, and entitled ‘The Conumdrums Are Coming’ and ‘The Duo is Slumming’; this was eventually changed to the Puzzler