Vincent Price as Egghead in Batman

Egghead was a villain created for the 1960s Batman television series. Played by horror film mainstay Vincent Price, the character was identifiable by his pale bald head and white and yellow suit. He believed himself to be "the world's smartest criminal," and his crimes would usually have an egg-motif to them as well as including egg puns in his speech where appropriate such as "egg-zactly" and "egg-cellent." Additionally, he would use a wide assortment of egg-shaped weapons, such as laughing gas eggs and tear gas eggs (laid by chickens on a diet of onions).

Trivia:
* Egghead's diet consists entirely of Triple Grade A eggs.

* Egghead's egg-o is so large, he actually employs a secretary to transcribe every word he says.

* Egghead was one of only two Batman 1960s series villains to deduce the real identity of Batman/Bruce Wayne. Reasoning that the enormous egg-spense involved would point to only one of three Gotham City millionaires who would be of the right age as Batman and deducing that two could not be the Caped Crusader (one has a French accent, which Batman does not have, and the other is a southpaw, whereas Batman is right-handed), the last, Bruce Wayne, must be Batman. Before he can confirm this, Bruce Wayne's ward Dick Grayson shorts out Egghead's memory egg-straction machine.

* The Narrator refers to Egghead as the "world's greatest criminal mind", a title that would later become the title and theme song for Vincent's character, Ratigan, in Disney's The Great Mouse Detective.

* Vincent Price often spoke of his pleasure at playing "Egghead" on the Batman television series. Yvonne Craig (Batgirl), often said Price was her favorite co-star.

* In an often-repeated anecdote from the set of Batman, Price, after a take was printed, started throwing eggs at series stars Adam West and Burt Ward, and when asked to stop replied, "With a full artillery? Not a chance!", causing an eggfight to erupt on the soundstage. This incident is reenacted in the behind-the-scenes telefilm Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt.




Batman #47:
An Egg Grows in Gotham 1 of 3:



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Batman #48:
The Yegg Foes in Gotham 1 of 3:



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Batman #102:
The Ogg & I 1 of 3:



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Batman #103:
How to Hatch a Dinosaur 1 of 3:



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Batman #109:
The Ogg Couple 1 of 3:



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_{Episode Trivia Pages come from the Official Batbook which you can find over at Cosmobells.}