6. Batman '66 #5 by Jeff Parker, Rubin Procopio and Colleen Coover (DC)
It's the comic where I begin smiling from the moment I see the cover to the moment I turn the final page - it's Batman '66, old chum! Bruce and Dick are about to go on a fishing trip before they're interrupted by a phone call from Commissioner Gordon where Gordon snores at Bruce - the Sandman is in town! The dastardly rogue blankets Gotham with his sleep dust, robbing the rich and the poor alike, and using his powers to extract Gotham's citizens' deepest secrets to his advantage. His star catch? Batman and Robin! But will Batman give away his secret identity and the location of the Bat Cave - or will the Caped Crusader find a way to fight back? Also included is a story featuring Batgirl taking on Catwoman in Gotham's Museum of Science, as Catwoman attempts to steal an enormous and valuable rose quartz. If you've been reading the Batman '66 comics, you'll know how well Jeff Parker has captured the tone, atmosphere, and voices of the Adam West TV series and effortlessly infused it into this title. The stories are light but clever with the characters quipping their way through the adventures, which are often more ambitious and bigger in scope that the original TV show was (one of the benefits of drawing a comic with no TV budget to think of). Ruben Procopio's art is excellent, giving the cast the same look at the original series and I really liked the trippy dream sequences that Batman finds himself in as he battles Sandman's powerful hallucinations. Colleen Coover's art is as amazing as it always is. She's the perfect match to be drawing Batman '66, as her style and art on her other series, Bandette, feels like its made by the same creators of the 60s Batman show. Batman '66 is absolutely brilliant and #5 is no exception. Well worth a look especially if you're tired of grim and gritty Batman stories.