Well, you may see it as making you look old, but 1965 isn't much further back than the 1971 and 1972 first reads of me and G-man. Looking up BATMAN 171, it was also as you said listed as the first Silver Age appearance of the Riddler. It's cool that your first BATMAN issue was a story that played such a big role in the Batman TV series.
Looking it up, I saw this was reprinted a few times, including a trade collection of stories that were all adapted in the TV series, a collection titled
BATMAN: THE TV STORIES (2013).
Most of the BATMAN stories
from that era were reprinted in 52-page or 100-page issues, so in a way I grew up with those stories too.
My first Riddler story was BATMAN 263, back in 1975, by O'Neil, and Novick/Giordano, that I thought handled the Riddler character in both a playful and intelligent way. A kid at the zoo tells Riddler a joke, and he is so delighted he gives the kid a 100-dollar bill!
Toward the end of the 1970-1975 era of BATMAN and DETECTIVE that I love best.
