Batman '66 Meets the Man from U.N.C.L.E. was a six-issue limited series published in 2016. It was a crossover between Batman (as he appeared on the 1966 TV series) and the characters from the TV show The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (who DC had licensed at the time).
Plot[]
"The Batman Affair, Chapter 1: Deathtraps and Lairs"[]
En route to Arkham in response to a breakout, Batman and Robin pass the Penguin. Executing a Bat-turn, they follow him, right into a trap! A mysterious benefactor has enabled to Penguin to at last trap is adversary. In Ghent, Napoleon Solo infiltrates a .T.H.R.U.S.H. meeting to learn their plans, and discovers the new European sub-chief is Olga, Queen of the Cossacks! She remembers everyone she invited, forcing Solo to flee with Ilya Kuryakin's help - but they blunder into a net that overturns their boat! In the cave, Penguin has bound Batman and Robin in quite a lot of rope and placed them among quite a lot of explosives. But when he tries to steal the Batmobile, it proves his undoing, as Batman traps him! In Ghent, Solo and Kuryakin are bound to a table with a blade threatening them. Ilya pretends allegiance to Russia, and Olga frees him on condition he murders his partner. Instead, he slips plugs into Solo's ears and uses a hypersonic weapon in his watch to knock everyone else out! Batman returns Penguin to Arkham, and there discovers Doctor Hugo unconscious and the grim news that numerous dangerous villains have escaped!
"The Batman Affair, Chapter 2: Bruce Wayne, Agent of T.H.R.U.S.H.?"[]
Batman explains how the Penguin was a decoy for the villains' escape, and in this way cadges details from the finny fiend. Solo and Kuryakin meet with their chief, Waverly, in New York. He explains why he regards Bruce Wayne as a suspect: the escape from Arkham was well-planned and Wayne is a donor with access. Wayne's company will shortly host a fete at which it will unveil a new satellite; Waverly will attend with his agents, by using an old colleague as an entre: Alfred Pennyworth. And those arch-villains? They have arrived at their destination, and are swiftly lowered to an underground facility where their benefactor assures them they will work for him as new T.H.R.U.S.H. recruits, or else they will return to prison! At Wayne's event, Anders Overbeck prepares to discuss the satellite when Egghead and Ivy arrive in a flying machine! Between his egg bombs and her plant creatures, they distract Batman, Robin, Solo, Kuryakin and Batgirl long enough to escape with the satellite, exactly as they planned! Who can stop this terrible alliance?