A few people have been wanting to see this and a friend of mine switched some of my old floppy files over to CD for me. I called it a Batman Grappling Hook but the correct name is Batman Shooting Grapper by Ahi. I first came across a cartoon pic of this while looking through an old issue of the Superhero Catalog by Heroes World
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You know I'm one of the people who has been dying to see this. Thanks for tracking it down. I wonder if its a direct rip-off of the Fun Stuff version. It looks the same, but those colors are awesome.WANTED - Solid-Boxed WGSH's, C.8 or better. -
Man, that is awesome. It's really strange too. First of all, Batman was hardly ever (if ever) shown with a shooting grapple hook before the Dark Knight Returns rifle version, and Keaton's grapple gun. The only thing I can think of that predates this as far as a bat-launcher is the floor-standing Batarang launcher Adam West used on, I think, one episode of the TV series.
Then there's the contemparary Ernie Chua/Chan Batman drawing along with the 40s Batman logo on the backer card. This baby is a time-bending piece of Bat-merchandise. It even went into the future! Every version of Batman in film, TV and comics now uses such an item, but not back then!
AHI may have been a cheap toy company, but they could forsee the future!
Thanks for sharing!
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that's awesome Tim,thanx for posting it up"Time to nut up or shut up" -Tallahassee
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Hahaha, man I used to think the same way, I'd order these things like the shooting grappler or the Spidey web-shooters and I'd think I was really going to accomplish some amazing feats with them! The innocence of being 5 years old I guessComment
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Very cool, Tim! Thanks for posting the picture!
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Awesome
That is amazing. Thanks for posting the shot.Comment
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