Or in this case, that means starting with numbers, such as this 12" Mego Captain America, one of the nicest-looking Cap figures around, save for the size of the head! More after the jump!
12" General Zod!
Mego Batcave for the 8" figures!
8" Captain Americar!
8" Conan the Barbarian in the box and on the card!
From Harber Italy, here's an 8" Tom Baker Doctor Who!
aThe incredibly goofy Hulk Copter, made by Empire toys for the 8" Megos!
8" Fist Fighting Joker!
Moving on, here's AHI's 12" Adventure Man figure, intended to compete with Hasbro's GI Joe!
A pretty nifty Archie frame-tray puzzle by Jaymar! Since when did Jughead play the guitar, though?
Yep, we're getting into the Batman stuff early this go-round... here's a 1960s coin purse!
1960s Japanese Playing Cards!
A 1966 Batman... ashtray??? Really!
1966 Batman Bike Ornament -- silly, isn't it?
1966 Candi Sticks Box!
From 1966, here's Corgi's in-store promotional poster touting their awesome Batmobile toy!
Someone was really asleep at the wheel whey they okayed this Batman Pencil Box shaped like a gun!
Much more Bat-Stuff next time!
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Re the incredibly goofy Hulk Copter: this may be the most embarrassingly geeky comment I ever post, but when I see stuff like this I always feel toy makers overlooked one of the easiest merchandising possibilities built right into the Hulk comic itself…with the toy-friendly name the Hulkbusters! It was an Army task force under the command of General "Thunderbolt" Ross out to capture the Hulk, so any Army-themed toys could have been repurposed as "Hulkbuster" items. One can well imagine the Hulkbuster corps having its own insignia and giving their gear a distinctive paint job, so with the slightest tweaking this could have been sold with a soldier action figure as a Hulkbuster chopper instead. Doesn't that make a lot more sense?
ReplyDeleteI've just humiliated myself for life, haven't I.
RAB, no, it's not humiliating, it's the kind of thinking I wish more toy manufactures of the 70s did!
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